16.029 - Pre-K–16 Latinx Education in the Context of White Supremacy

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The overarching purpose of this symposium is to further explore the complex nature of serving Latinx students in the context of White supremacy, a hierarchical system of racial dominance and exploitation that systematically privileges white people and oppresses people of color (Bonilla-Silva, 2001; Dubois 1999, Perez-Huber et al., 2008). Pulling from critical theories, such as Latino Critical Race Theory, the following papers will address the consistent racial and linguistic inequities facing Latinx youth while providing examples of ways these oppressive structures are dismantled. All these papers will address the following question: What roles do schools, universities, and educators play in maintaining or dismantling white supremacy?

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 2: Studies of diversity and variation with social contexts of education

Chair

• Carrie Sampson, Arizona State University - West

Papers

• Young Latinx Counternarratives in a Two-Way Dual-Language (Spanish-English) White Supremacist Context - Sandra Lucia Osorio, Illinois State University

• Latinx Students in Chicagoland Suburbia: Navigating and Deconstructing White Supremacy - Gabriel Rodriguez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Latinx Community College Students Traversing a White Supremacist Off-Campus Environment - Moises Orozco Villicana, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• The Role of Leadership in Challenging White Supremacist Ideologies in Two-Way Dual-Language Education - Joseph Wiemelt, Urbana School District 116

Discussant

• Julio Cammarota, Iowa State University