Toward Possible Futures: Responding to and Resisting the Invisibility of Latinx Communities Across Institutions

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This session elaborates the AERA 2025 theme in its call for research and methods that demand epistemological heterogeneity, expansive views of human learning and activity, and an integrated interdisciplinarity to scholarship and the study of/with Latinx peoples. In this session, scholars who readily boundary cross and work at the edges of their disciplines seek to dismantle racial injustice across educational systems, in the academy, and in the public sphere, and advance expansive representations of Latinx people, their histories, and their possibilities. The proposed presidential session centers new research that aims to trouble/disrupt extant theories, methods, and discourses around the significantly diverse Latinae communities. The resulting re-mediation engages tensions in the scholarship (its concepts and methods) to open up new conversations for the field and the AERA community.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Kris D. Gutiérrez, University of California - Berkeley

Papers

• Group 1 - Alfredo J. Artiles, Stanford University; Cecilia Rios-Aguilar, University of California - Los Angeles

• Group 2 - Krista L. Cortes, University of Pennsylvania; Amalia Z. Dache, University of Pennsylvania; Eliana Castro, University of Vermont

• Group 3 - Laura K. Munoz, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Mirelsie Velázquez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Group 4 - Omi Salas-SantaCruz, University of Utah; Cindy Cruz, University of Arizona; Mario I Suárez, Utah State University

• Group 5 - Luis Urrieta, University of Texas at Austin; David W. Barillas Chón, Western University

• Group 6 - Anne-Marie Nunez, University of Texas - El Paso; Stephanie Aguilar-Smith, University of North Texas

Discussant

• Dolores Delgado Bernal, Loyola Marymount University