Transforming educational pathways for Chicana/o students : a critical race feminista praxis / Dolores Delgado Bernal, Enrique Alemán, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delgado Bernal, Dolores, author.

Alemán, Enrique, Jr., 1971- author.

Series:

Multicultural education series (New York, N.Y.)

Multicultural education series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hispanic Americans--Education (Higher).

Hispanic Americans.

College preparation programs--United States.

College preparation programs.

Community and college--United States.

Community and college.

United States.

Educational equalization--United States.

Educational equalization.

Local Subjects:

College preparation programs.

Community and college.

Educational equalization.

Hispanic Americans--Education (Higher).

Physical Description:

xvii, 126 pages : illustration ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Teachers College Press, [2017]

Summary:

This book chronicles a 10-year journey to develop and sustain Adelante, a university-school-community partnership designed specifically to address public education's failure to meet the needs of students of color, particularly Chicana/o students. The authors examine the persistent barriers, mistakes, challenges, and successes that emerged in their community-based partnership with elementary school students, college students, teachers, parents, and educational leaders. Intertwining critical race theories with Chicana feminist theories, they propose a "critical race feminista praxis" and provide real-world examples of what this praxis can look like in the context of a racialized, gendered, and colonial landscape. The book offers practical advice and theoretical insight to those interested in disrupting pervasive inequities that shape the (mis)education of marginalized students. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Origin and Context of Adelante 9

Research as Intervention 12

The Utah Context as Distinct and All Too Familiar 15

A Portrait of the Neighborhood and the School 18

2 Trenza in Our Partnership Work 21

Critical Race Theories 22

Chicana Feminist Theories 26

Critical Race Feminista Praxis 29

Adelante's Program Elements 31

3 L@s Primer@s 33

What Did They Take Away from Adelante? 34

Portraits: A Look at Two of L@s Primer@s 35

Mentors: Embodying the Message of Brown College Students 37

Academic Outcomes and a Continued Trend of Exclusion 43

4 Parents, Teachers, and Transformative Ruptures 48

Cultivating Confianza, Engagement, and Leadership 49

Deficit Discourses as the Ongoing Omnipresent Choque 51

Frustration, Surveillance, and the Disciplining of Brown Students 54

(Re)Building Allies from a Transformative Rupture 58

5 Politicizing Diversity Scholars in a White University 60

Program Development as a Transformative Rupture 61

Reflective and Engaged Student Scholars: Affirmation and Shifting Identities 65

Theory into Practice in the Diversity Scholars Program 73

6 Consejos for Critical Race Feminista Praxis 75

Nepantla: Being at Home with Conflict and Ambiguity 76

Transas: Maneuvering, Strategizing, and Positioning Across Educational Institutions 80

Transformative Ruptures: A Pathway to Chican@ Education 86

Conclusion 92.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Delgado Bernal, Dolores, author. Transforming educational pathways for Chicanao Students

ISBN:

9780807757918

0807757918

9780807757925

0807757926

OCLC:

959265683