Community as Resistance: Reconceptualizing Historical Use of Community Within Latina/o Education

• In Event: Urban Communities and School Reform in the 1960s

Abstract

Through the presentation of literature on Latin@ education, I will examine how community has historically been constructed and present within Latin@ education as a space for resistance beginning in the latter 1400s and moving forward up until the 1970s. This narrative is not intended to be exhaustive, rather, presented is a conceptual piece that seeks to reframe what others have already documented in order to reveal how current efforts of resistance that draw on the notion community are based in a legacy of resistance through community.

Author

• Racheal Rothrock, The University of Texas - Austin