Recovering Early Histories of LA Latinx Teachers

• In Event: Historicizing Los Angeles : Envisioning New Educational Futures in Latinx Radical Imaginations

Abstract

Historian Laura Muñoz presents biographical and anecdotal evidence of Latinx teachers in LA’s public schools (1950s–70s), showing how they planted seeds for bilingual pedagogy long before policy formalization. Their dual-language pedagogies, curriculum design, and cultural organizing illuminate a precocious civil rights arc of educational utopianism.

Author

• Laura K. Munoz, University of Nebraska - Lincoln