First Gen & Juice: Exploring First-Generation College Student Narratives in Pop Culture and Mass Media is a practical, imaginative, and deeply engaging resource for educators, student-success professionals, and anyone working with 21st-century learners.Born from conference rooms, comic conventions, classrooms, and countless conversations with first-generation students and the people who support them, this edited collection invites readers to rethink how fi...

When Dr. La'Tonya Rease Miles was in third grade, a homeroom teacher said: "You are smart, and you are going to college." A shy, nerdy, sports-loving, only child of a working-class, teenage single mom, she wondered next: "How does a smart Black girl get to college?"A pioneer of first-generation studies, long-time practitioner of university initiatives for first-generation students at several U. S. colleges, and dynamic advocate of first-generation representation on social media, in...