A Critical Look Into History: Implementing Our Cultural Intuition in Educational Research

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

Historical and contemporary educational experiences of Chicana/Latina students are often ignored or overlooked in traditional research. This symposium brings together Chicana researchers from myriad disciplines to assert the necessity of producing education scholarship that centers Chicana/Latina lives. We offer three distinct papers united in our engagement of cultural intuition (Delgado Bernal, 1998) as a tool for producing research. We allow our experiences and knowledges as students and scholars to inform our strategic decisions to take transdisciplinary approaches and combine multiple critical theoretical frameworks. Those who attend this symposium will participate in a space where topics as diverse as Mexican schools, on-campus conflicts, and sharpie eyebrows are collectively discussed as part of the project to restore humanity to Chicanas’/Latinas’ educational experiences.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in Education

Chair

• Sombra Libertad Ruiz, University of California - Los Angeles

Papers

• “Lessons That Will Not Stay Taught”: Dismantling Cultural Deficit Discourses of Mexican Mothers and Schoolchildren - Michaela J. López Mares-Tamayo, University of California - Los Angeles

• Historicizing Race and Space: A Critical Race Discourse Analysis on Black-Latina/o Student Conflict in South Central Los Angeles - Lluliana Alonso, University of California - Los Angeles

• Como Te Ven, Te Tratan: A Critical Race Analysis of Chicana Eyebrows and “Masked” Resistance - Maria C. Olivares Pasillas, University of California - Los Angeles; Iris Lucero, University of California - Los Angeles

Discussant

• Bert Maria Cueva, University of California - Los Angeles