Desire Within Empire, Land-Based Pedagogies, and "Latinx" Sites of Learning

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session 8

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

Our session considers the complex and continuously evolving representations, relationalities, and socialization of and within three different “Latinx” sites of learning. These sites include a college preparation program designed primarily for Latinx youth, primarily Mexican-origin, on unceded Ohlone territory/the SF Bay Area; Maya Mam language revitalization classes in Huichin/Oakland; and agriculture and land-based education with campesina (farmworker womxn) in Yakama Nation/Washington. We draw connections between these various sites of education by discussing cross-generational desires for stability and dignity within empire to consider ways that displaced, “Latinx” peoples are received by and respond to the U.S. settler state. We also consider the role of institutionalization as related to schooling, work, and languaging.

Sub Unit

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

Chair

• Theresa Burruel Stone, Sonoma State University

Papers

• Socializing Settler Desire and Competency: Considering a College Preparation Program for Latinx Youth in Relation to Place - Theresa Burruel Stone, Sonoma State University

• Teaching Maya Mam: Affirming Sovereignty Through Language, Land, and Relationality - Cristina Mendez, University of California - Berkeley

• Mexicana/Latina Campesinas Cultivating Knowledge: A Collective Agricultural Land-Based Education in Rural Washington State - Rosalinda Godinez, University of California Berkeley

Discussant

• Ariana Mangual Figueroa, Graduate Center, CUNY