Multimodal Representations of Indigenous Communities Across Borders: Latinx Parents and Children Responding to History Texts

• In Event: 61.071 - Sheraton Roundtable Session 10 - Grand Centre
  In Roundtable Session: 61.071-12 - The Potentials of Critical Representation: Emancipatory Practices, Texts, and Contexts

Abstract

This paper examines Latinx parents’s responses in their reading, discussion, and selection of texts about Indigenous communities in U.S. and Mexican history, as well as the ways they are represented visually in these texts. Informed by critical/sociocultural approaches to history, theories of intersectionality, and multimodal theory, I examine the themes in images discussed in a family literacy program, and the identity categories parents used to position themselves in relation to these communities. Premilinary findings showcase families’ transnational understandings about the condition of oppresion of indigenous groups in both nation-states, and the ways parents used images and texts to interrogate citizenship status, and to describe their struggles growing up in Mexico for their children.

Author

• Silvia C Nogueron-Liu, University of Colorado - Boulder