Chicanx Studies and the Movement for Ethnic Studies in California Voices of Chicanx Studies Educators

• In Event: Identity Politics, Education, and the Latinx/e Community

Abstract

Chicanx practitioners actively working on curriculum development, professional development and implementation of Ethnic Studies, draw upon Chicanx Studies pedagogical practices, indigenous ways of knowing and critical race theory to share autobiographical testimonios. In developing a liberatory Ethnic Studies curriculum framework, we assess whether or not n Chicanx Studies, “centered on honoring idigenous knowledges and lifeways” (Toscano Villanueva, 2013) can help Chicanx activist scholars negotiate political trauma, pushback and attacks intent on reducing the critical, decolonial and anti-racist tenets of ethnic studies? Can community knowledge emerging from Chicanx scholarship be equitably infused into a broader liberatory framework? These testimonios, forms of “bearing witness” to events or occurring events that are important and significant, are situated in California K12 schools and districts.

Authors

• Theresa Montano, California State University - Northridge
  Presenting Author

• Guadalupe Carrasco Cardona, California State University - Northridge
  Presenting Author

• Sean M. Arce, Los Angeles Unified School District
  Presenting Author