Socializing Latinx Youth Into Liberal Tolerance of Right-Wing Terror: College-Going Competence in Cedarville, California

• In Event: Moscone Center North Roundtable Session 15
  In Roundtable Session: Anti-Immigrant Discourse, Latinx Undocumented Student Resistance, and Sanctuary in School and Out-of-School Spaces

Abstract

This paper draws upon language socialization and critical place inquiry to connect the politics of place to processes of becoming competent members of the U.S. nation-state. Herein, I emplace theorizations of racialized peoples’ entrance into the settler-native-slave triad through an ethnographic project, considering how Latinx youth on pathways to higher education may or may not be invited to “subordinate settler status” (Tuck & Yang, 2012). Specifically, I examine how Latinx youth in a college preparation program responded to Trump supporters on their school campus. I describe teachers’ liberal responses to right wing terror, highlighting their emphasis of “respecting all points of view.” Findings point to how logics supporting the white settler nation-state seep into Latinx youth’s socialization into college-going pathways.

Author

• Theresa Burruel Stone, Sonoma State University