Tensions of Latinx/Latinidad Through Different Lenses

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium session features scholars with different perspectives engaging with the audience in a discussion about the tensions/challenges that emerge in the constructs Latinx and Latinidad. The presenters start by briefly posing questions about (1) the Latinx racial construct; (2) settler colonial studies perspectives on Latinidad; (3) living within coloniality as trans/queer Latinx political subjects; (4) defining Latinidad by its commitment to justice, instead of a “real”/unified identity; and (5) intersectionality as critical inquiry/praxis and solidarity in Latinx communities. The presenters’ and audience questions will propel the discussion of tensions, issues, and future directions in research on Latinxs and education.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Latina/o/x Research Issues

Chairs

• Laura Chavez-Moreno, University of California - Los Angeles

• Theresa Burruel Stone, Sonoma State University

Papers

• Defining Race and Troubling the Latinx Racial Construct - Laura Chavez-Moreno, University of California - Los Angeles

• Disengaging From Latinidad via Settler Colonial Studies - Theresa Burruel Stone, Sonoma State University

• Decolonial, Brown Trans* Commons - Omi Salas-SantaCruz, University of Utah

• What Is This "Latinx" in Latinx Education? Toward a Radical Re/De/Construction of Latinidad in Educational Research - Michael V. Singh, University of California - Davis

• What's Your Street Race? The Urgency of Developing Our Intersectionality "Lens" as Critical Inquiry and Praxis and the Future of Flexible Solidarity in Latinx Communities - Nancy López, University of New Mexico