Teaching to Learn: Applying an Intersectional Lens to Latinx Sociology through Community-Engaged Scholarship

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Abstract

As scholars continue to reckon with legacies of unethical, commodified, extractive research (Tuck & Yang, 2014), collaboratively engaging in and troubling new methods, towards transformative, community-centered approaches becomes critical. This paper describes the methods employed towards this aim during the instruction of an introductory undergraduate course on the sociological study of Latinos in the United States at a medium-sized, private university in the mid-Atlantic region. In particular, I seek to center and demystify systems of power and oppression in two primary ways: adopting an intersectional approach (Crenshaw, 1989) and integrating a community-engaged scholarship project in partnership with a local Latinx-serving nonprofit organization. Through analysis of qualitative interviews with undergraduates and high school students at the partner organization, I will discuss the affordances and challenges to students, instructors, and collaborators in implementing participatory and dialogic models of teaching and learning.

Author

• Lupita Barrientos, University of Pennsylvania