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The purpose of the study was to understand the obstacles incarcerated and formerly incarcerated m... more The purpose of the study was to understand the obstacles incarcerated and formerly incarcerated men of color face in their pursuit of self-help, vocational and higher education, and how participation in rehabilitative and educational programs enabled them to find nurturing opportunities within their sites of resilience. This study posed four research questions related to the participants' formative years, their trajectory to prison, programming in prison, including self-help, vocational, and higher education, and how this can be improved. This study used a qualitative research design and interviewed six formerly incarcerated men of color who served time in California state prisons, participated in programming while incarcerated, and were released no more than five years prior to the study. The study used the critical race theory, Latino/a critical race theory, and the site of resilience theory as the conceptual frameworks and posed semi-structured open-ended questions during the...
The purpose of the study was to understand the obstacles incarcerated and formerly incarcerated m... more The purpose of the study was to understand the obstacles incarcerated and formerly incarcerated men of color face in their pursuit of self-help, vocational and higher education, and how participation in rehabilitative and educational programs enabled them to find nurturing opportunities within their sites of resilience. This study posed four research questions related to the participants' formative years, their trajectory to prison, programming in prison, including self-help, vocational, and higher education, and how this can be improved. This study used a qualitative research design and interviewed six formerly incarcerated men of color who served time in California state prisons, participated in programming while incarcerated, and were released no more than five years prior to the study. The study used the critical race theory, Latino/a critical race theory, and the site of resilience theory as the conceptual frameworks and posed semi-structured open-ended questions during the...