Multidimensional Backgrounds and Experiences of Latinx Scholars in Academia

• In Event: Thursday Roundtable Session 12:40 pm
  In Roundtable Session: Emerging Issues in Latina/o/x Higher Education Research (Table 14)

Abstract

This session focuses on the experiences of three Latinx scholars who have encountered discrimination based on race, gender, language, and immigration status, and how they navigated these aggressions and persevered in academic spaces to transform them. Coming from different educational and migratory backgrounds and experiences, these professors of color share their multidimensional backgrounds and how their identities and positionalities have shaped their educational trajectories. They then describe these aggressions and how they resisted and used those lessons and traumas to form and inform their commitments to do transformative work in education from PK-12 schools to higher education.

Authors

• Melissa J. Cuba, University of Maine

• Monique Evette Matute-Chavarria, New Mexico State University

• Carlos Lavin, College of Charleston