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Beyond Hashtags: Using Latinx YA Literature for Inclusion and Social Justice

Mon, May 27, 5:45 to 7:15pm, TBA

Session Submission Type: Panel

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The current political climate and movements such as Black Lives Matter and Families Belong Together create dialogue about larger systems of oppression that affect BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color). BIPOC already are having these conversations in person and all over social media platforms. As key users of these social platforms, youth are demonstrating their political voice. Discussions, memes, posts, and videos are shared outside and inside of schools. Schools, as common ground for these youth, serve as one location of sharing social media discussions, meme, posts and videos.

Schools play in important role in addressing social justice issues with students. Educators can facilitate these everyday conversations that arise in the classroom through literature. This panel will focus on how Latinx young adult literature can be vehicles for active participation in a democratic society while also supporting students to develop a sense of social justice and inclusion. Authors are fully aware, engaged, and articulate about their commitments to justice and equity in their epilogues, websites and interviews about their work. Using LatCrit Theory, Critical Race Theory and Latina Feminism as theoretical underpinnings, we explore how Latinx young adult literature encourages political participation among youth through multiple narrative forms and narrative voices about the realities of oppression in relation to mental health, migration and the location of brown bodies in public spaces.

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