Raza Struggle and the Movement for Ethnic Studies: Decolonial Pedagogies, Literacies, and Methodologies

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Raza Struggle and the Movement for Ethnic Studies: Decolonial Pedagogies, Literacies, and Methodologies presents an investigation of decolonization in the context of education and what this means for ethnic studies projects. It accomplishes this exploration by looking at the history of Raza communities, defined broadly as the Indigenous and mestizo working class peoples from Latin America, with a focus on the complex yet unifying Chicanx-Mexican experience in the Southwest United States. This book bridges the fields of history, pedagogy, and decolonization through a creative and interweaving methodology that includes critical historiography, dialogue, autoethnography, and qualitative inquiry. Collectively, this work opens new ground, challenging scholars and educators to rethink critical education rooted in traditional and Western frameworks. Arguing for decolonial and Indigenous approaches, the author invites educators and cultural workers to reflect on learning and community in their praxis. Raza Struggle and the Movement for Ethnic Studies will be of interest to students of ethnic studies and Latin American and Mexican history. It is also relevant to teachers, teacher educators, and scholars who are intent on creating spaces of hope and possibility rooted in Freirean, decolonial, and Indigenous frameworks. Cover Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Reigniting the Ethnic Studies Movement in the U.S. Southwest My Approach to This Book Notes References Chapter 1: Raza Struggle, Coloniality, and Capitalism Raza Struggle at the Interstices of Race and Class A Framework for Understanding Historical Shifts De-Indigenization/De-Tribalization of Mesoamerican Peoples Becoming Colonial Subjects Becoming Working Class Subjects Im/Migrant Others The Re-emergence of the Mexican as Other Perpetual Violence and Intergenerational Trauma Healing From Violence, Creating Spaces of Hope Notes References Chapter 2: Multiple Marginality: A Dialogue With James Diego Vigil Chapter 3: Decolonial Pedagogies: Working Principles for Our Rehumanization The Schooling Biographies Project Studying-Up Our Schools Student Narratives: The Story Behind the Numbers Writing and Performing Autobiography: (Re)Writing Our Lives Decolonizing Pedagogies: Standpoint and Tenets Centering Colonialism Dialogue Naming Counter-Storytelling Healing Coda: Situating Decolonizing Practices Toward an Experiential, Dialogical Approach to the Curriculum The Traditional, Linear Model The Conceptual, Thematic Alternative The Experiential, Dialogical Approach Cultural-Historical Approaches to a Decolonizing Pedagogy The Role of the Educator Learning as Socio-Historical Praxis Cultural Resources in the Mediation of a Critical Social Consciousness Contradictions: The Genesis of Development and Learning Reclaiming Indigenous Epistemologies: The Movement Within Coda: This Is Not Identity Politics Notes References Chapter 4: Heteroglossia: A Dialogue With Carlos Tejeda Reference Chapter 5: Decolonial Literacies, Mediation, and Critical Consciousness Centering Critical Literacy Practices YPAR: Reclaiming the Process of Knowledge Production Re-centering Learning and Literacy Practices Meta-Reflection Upon Literacy and Students as Writers Reading the Word and the World: Concept Formation Meta-analysis of Language and Conceptual Nudging Epistemic Openness in Critical Literacies Reflecting on Critical Literacy Practices Proximity to Texts Critical Readings and Openings Need for Guided Practice Action Research as Political and Rehumanizing Why Decolonial Literacies in Ethnic Studies? Notes References Chapter 6: Decolonial Methodologies: Toward a Raza Research Framework Introduction The Struggle to De-Colonize Our Research “Third-World” Subversions of the Goals of Western/Modern Research Projects The Crisis of PAR in the Global North A Social Science by and for Indigenous Peoples? Lessons From Kaupapa Māori Research and Participatory Action-Research in Latin America Māori Whanau as Decolonizing Organic Structures Comunidades de Base as Decolonizing Organic Structures The Primacy of Grassroots Collectives in Decolonizing Research Decolonizing Our Research Within the Euroversity? Notes References Chapter 7: Decolonizing the Ethnic Studies Movement: Centering Spirituality and Community From Being a Presence in the World to Being a Presence With Others Knowing Our Heart Decolonizing the Movement for Ethnic Studies: Working Principles Endogenous →← Indigenous Epistemologies Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Colonialism →← Community Self-Determination Notes References Index