Full Description
This edited volume brings together voices of Latinx students, teachers, teacher educators, and education allies in Latinx communities to reveal ways in which today's sociopolitical context has given rise to politically-sanctioned hateful anti-immigrant rhetoric. Contributors—key stakeholders in the education of immigrant Latinx children, youth, and college students—share how this rhetoric has exacerbated existing systemic injustices within K-Higher Education. They draw attention to counternarratives that speak to leadership and strength of community. Contributors include high school and college students and faculty, community organizers, and early career academics, whose voices are too often underrepresented in academic conversations. This book highlights professional and personal acts of courage, community organization, and the transformation of students and educators who are stepping into leadership roles to affect change. Understanding that teaching and learning are political acts, we call all those vested in Latinx communities to engage in small and large acts of agency to collectively impact change in our K-Higher Education systems.
Contents
Introduction
Margarita Jimenez-Silva & Janine Bempechat
Section I: Voices of Students
Introduction: My Experience at the City Council Meeting, Joey Luevanos
Chapter 1: "I don't like the way he acts with Mexicans:" An Analysis of Persuasive Pre-Writing Sessions with Fifth-Grade Bilingual Latinx Students, Evelyn Baca
Chapter 2: "What Do You Mean, You Feel Latina?:" Use of Pan-Ethnic Identity Labels Among Middle School Bilingual Youth, Jenny Jacobs
Chapter 3: "Why isn't Cinco de Mayo 365 days a year!" Culturally Sustaining Practices in an Age of Distrust, Orlando Carreon
Section II: Voices of Teachers
Introduction: The Making of a Radical Educator, Melody Esqueda
Chapter 4: Rising Up to Lead: A Teacher's Path from the Classroom to City Hall, Laura Gomez & Ruth Luevanos
Chapter 5: Unshifting Practices and Perspectives: Disrupting the Cycle through Anti-Racist Pedagogy, Christine Montecillo Leider, Megan Schantz, & Molly Ross
Chapter 6: A Funny Thing Happens on the Way to the Classroom...: Positio
