Transformative Conversations: Vulnerability and Negotiating Borders/Fronteras With/in Latinx Scholars(hip) in Social Studies

• In Event: 67.060 - Addressing Hegemony Through Counternarratives

Abstract

This paper explores the negotiation/navigation of linguistic, methodological, and theoretical borders/fronteras in planning the first Spanish-language session at the National Council of the Social Studies conference. Through the minds, bodies, hearts, and souls of five of the original planners of this session, we share how each stage of the process (planning, set-up, “execution,” and reverberations of the presentation until the present day) served as a site of disruption of master narratives and paradigms in social studies. Lessons learned include the risks, challenges, and vulnerability of border-crossing, and its necessity in developing new avenues of research that encourage more entrusting relationships between universities and communities. We end with an invitation to other scholars to push boundaries in the field.

Authors

• Tommy Ender, Rhode Island College

• Rebecca C. Christ, Florida International University

• Ana Carolina Diaz Beltran, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley

• Gerardo Joel Aponte-Safe, University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse

• Christopher L. Busey, University of Florida