#WeAreChicanx: The Necessity of Radical Counterstories for Public Education

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session 33
  In Roundtable Session: Responsive Teachers as Advocates and Activists

Abstract

Radical counter stories in dangerous times help prepare pre-service teachers to refute the master narrative of indifference, even outright hostility, with critical democratic ideals of equitable education unsubmerged from the racialized rhetoric and threats against Latinx. Two Chicanxs in the professorate, never ‘American enough,’ share how they disrupt inequity through radical truth telling and transformative social justice to confront the struggles for public education.

Authors

• Antonette M. Aragon, Colorado State University

• James Martinez, Valdosta State University