How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium showcases scholars with different perspectives engaging with how schools contribute to the making of racial ideas and categories by focusing on Latinx racialization. The session starts by providing a talk of a study on how a bilingual-education program constructed Latinidad in relation to Asianness, Blackness, Indigeneity, and Whiteness. The symposium features scholars commenting on the significance, tensions, and future directions regarding: (1) relational racialization, racial projects, race ambivalence, and race theory in education; and (2) bilingual education and race, including confronting anti-blackness, anti-indigeneity. The Chair facilitates audience questions, having their ideas propel and enrich the discussion. The session’s topic and discussion underscore the public value of education research that addresses improving critical racial literacies.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Education

Chair

• Angela Valenzuela, University of Texas at Austin

Papers

• Introduction to Study: How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization - Laura Chavez-Moreno, University of California - Los Angeles

• The Study's Race Theory in Education - Zeus Leonardo, University of California - Berkeley

• The Study and Bilingual Education and Latinx Racialization - María Cioe-Pena, University of Pennsylvania

Session Organizer

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

Discussant

• Angela Valenzuela, University of Texas at Austin