"It Happened All Over the World": Transnational Historical Analysis of State History Alongside Mexican Families

• In Event: Learning From Transnational Immigrant Literacies

Abstract

This study compares the responses of Mexican immigrant families in two family programs, in their discussion of the histories of nondominant groups in traditional and new migration destinations in the United States. It integrates transnational perspectives to literacy instruction with a critical historical approach to situate mobility and migration in Latinx experiences. Through the analysis of responses to text sets (including museum exhibits and state standards), findings highlight how parents drew on geographic and historical understandings of land ownership, rural life, and youth activism in light of discrimination and displacement in different regions and nations. Differences and similarities across contexts and programs are discussed. The study offers implications for equitable and critically-oriented family literacy partnerships.

Author

• Silvia C Nogueron-Liu, University of Colorado - Boulder