Towards Altermundos: Racial Literacies and Racial Sense-Making of Latinx/e/o/a, Indigenous, Latin American-Origin Youth

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The intensifying violence against im/migrant communities highlights the urgent need for alternative futures. For Latine/x/a/o, Latin American, and Indigenous youth, histories of anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, and colonialism across the Americas, collide today with xenophobic immigration policies to produce complex racializing processes. Educational spaces simultaneously reproduce these racializations while also offering sites of possibilities for youth to imagine and experience alternative futures for themselves and their communities. This symposium brings together five papers that explore processes of racialization, racial sense-making, and the development of racial literacies for Latin American, Indigenous, and Latinx/e/a/o youth within United States-based educational spaces. Our session looks beyond “Latino/Hispanic” as a catch-all, uncovering diverse experiences within educational contexts.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 3: Languages, Literacies, and Representations

Chair

• Rita Kamani-Renedo, Stanford University

Papers

• Bilingual Education Reinforcing Latinx as a Racialized Group - Laura Chavez-Moreno, University of California - Los Angeles

• Naming and Navigating Racism: Latinx Students Racial Literacies via Ethnic Studies - Arturo Nevárez, California State University - Stanislaus

• Transnational Racial Literacies of Recently-Arrived Latin American and Indigenous Migrant Youth - Rita Kamani-Renedo, Stanford University

• Oaxaqueño is Not a Bad Word: Racial Sense-Making and Resistance - David W. Barillas Chón, University of Northern Colorado

• “Español Con Libertad”: Community-Based Organizations Fostering Racialized Social Ties for Latinx Immigrant Youth - Sophia Rodriguez, New York University; Melissa Ortiz, New York University

Session Organizer

• Rita Kamani-Renedo, Stanford University

Discussant

• Danny C. Martinez, University of California - Davis