Making Mundo Nuevo: Advancing an Anzaldúan Theorization of Latinx Resistance in Educational Research

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium gathers five Chicana/Latina educational researchers who relied on their empirical studies to analyze how Latinx students and Latina immigrant mothers resist racism in educational spaces. This symposium focuses on Anzaldúan notions of the wild tongue, la facultad, conocimiento, Coyolxuahqui, and spiritual activism to reimagine educational spaces for Latinx students, their families, and their communities. In this session, the presenters will engage the following research question: 1) How do Latinx students and Latina immigrant mothers reimagine educational spaces free of racial injustice? Collectively, the findings reveal the knowledge that Latinx research collaborators draw from their homes, communities, and familial lived experiences. Additionally, this symposium highlights Latinx advocacy by interrupting racism and marginality and reimagining inclusive educational spaces.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Latina/o/x Research Issues

Chair

• Lorena Camargo Gonzalez, California State University - Sacramento

Papers

• La Facultad en el Valle: Rural Latinx Youth Resisting Deficit Depictions of Their College-Goingness - Mayra Puente, University of California - Santa Barbara

• Transforming La Comunidad: Latinx Community College Students in the Path of Conocimento - Samantha Prado Robledo, Merced College

• Reimagining Careers to Medicine: State of Coyolxuahqui and Resistance of Latinx Premedical Students - Katherine Arias Garcia, University of California - Irvine