COE Diversity Committee's Advancing Justice through DEI Series

How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America

Dr. Laura C. Chávez-Moreno in conversation with Dr. Claudia Cervantes-Soon 

How do schools make us think about race? And where does Latinx fit in?

In How Schools Make Race, Laura Chávez-Moreno, a researcher and former public school teacher, shows how schools play a pivotal role in shaping the concept of race and racialized groups.

In this talk, she tells the story of how the teachers and students in a racially diverse Spanish-English bilingual education program grappled with conflicting ideas about race and about the Latinx category.

Chávez-Moreno challenges us to reconsider what makes race and invites us to see Latinx as a racialized group. Her research reveals why this shift matters–because how we think about race affects whether our schools can provide youth with an education that challenges racist ideas.

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