Race, Gender, and Place: How Latina Students Navigate and Transgress the School Leadership Landscape

• In Event: Let's Talk About Race in Leadership: Challenging White Supremacy, Racism, Antiblackness, Othering, and Marginalization

Abstract

Chicana/Latina scholars have expanded notions of what is deemed leadership to include the different ways Latinas participate in leadership, activism, and organizing spaces. The four participants in this study reveal patriarchal limiting viewpoints imposed onto them as Latinas such as gender stereotypes and expectation, as well as how they use empowering ones from their homes in school to try out new practices and identities with peers and in spaces to which they shape belonging. I use a geographical lens to reveal how taking on leadership positions at school for these students transgress patriarchal ideologies of place at school. This study informs ideas about youth oppositional behavior to consider other ways that youth may be working toward educational change.

Author

• Claudia Diera, California State University - Los Angeles