Truth-Telling, Healing, and Resistance: High Schoolers from Immigrant Households Contest Rising Xenophobia Through Participatory Oral History

Samuel Finesurrey, Aslyn Harvey, Emma Fernandez, Alison Mosquera, Jacob Rodriguez, Juliette Vargas Hernandez, Aldry Capellan, Alexa de la Cruz, Gabriela Mena, Kylie Peralta, Dana Pérez, Christopher Pineda, Maya Whitfield, Navil Abreu, Ximena Batista, Danella Lopez, Chris J. Guzman, Samantha Ruiz-Correa, Jonathan Erazo, Samantha Bruno, Aidan Lam, Michelle Fine

Youth & Society

Published online on January 31, 2026

Abstract

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This 4-year longitudinal Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) study employed over 300 peer-to-peer oral history interviews conducted by 112 mostly Dominican American 10th graders in Upper Manhattan and the South Bronx to examine how conjunctural ...