LatinX Identity
Rochester City School District
Latino Studies Speaker Series
October 27, 2021
4:30-6:30
Presenters: Henry I Padrón-Morales
Ruben Fuentes Ph.D.
Latinx
¿Qué es esx?
Yo soy ¡___________!
Latino They LatinX Latin@
CubanX ChicanX Afro LatinX
Sud AmericanX
Cis LatinX Non Binary LatinX
NuyoricanX EspañeX
HispanX DominicanX
Mexican Boricua
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¿Y tu - que eres?
Why Young People Use The Word Latinx — And How They Explain It To Their Parents�By KYLI RODRIGUEZ-CAYRO�Sep. 16, 2019�
“I do feel empowered by the term Latinx, because it’s a statement to my continuous efforts to unlearn lots of what I’ve been taught.”
Estereotipos/Stereotypes
El Bandido
¡Papi Chulo!
Don Juan
¡Los Invisibles!
The Maid and
Gardener. You
Know – Maria y
Gardo.
In the books¡!
The Big Stick-
cruising the
Caribbean…
¡El Gran Tio!
Incapable of self-rule, self-determination.
Worthy of colonialism.
LatinX: Claudia Milian
Morales elaborated that he embrace[s] LatinX “because of its futurist implications. Like superheroes of color and the possibilities inherent in girls and everyone else who code, LatinX represents an openness that is increasingly under threat in a political climate that is most intent on drawing borders, keeping outsiders out, and using violence to keep it that way” (2018b). LatinX makes complete sense to me in that it offers a bigger environment to work with. LatinX has a very busy life. You can’t pin down the Latin or the X: they both possess inherent hidden qualities and ubiquity in the world. LatinX delivers us to great unknowns.
Lente Crítico
Critical Latinx Indigeneity is building a perspective, or standpoint, that draws from the personal stories, interpretive lenses, ways of knowing, and ways of being of Indigenous Latinxs from what is now the US or who have arrived via migration from Latin America where second and future generations of Indigenous migrants, especially youth, address their complex and multilayered realities. This analytic frame is needed because there has not been, until now, a collective effort to name and theorize the various expressions of these experiences, which tend to be outside of, but also within, dominant narratives such as Latinidad and often in tension with Hispanic, and Chicana/o.
What do you see?
Why?
Ourstory! Las Boinas Cafés
Youth
Word!
Politics
¡Unidad!
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Similar to the color stratification system used in Louisiana, Cubans in the 19th century developed a classification system between degrees of color: Pardo, white on one side, freeborn pardo, white on one side, ex-slave pardo on both sides, freeborn pardo on both sides, ex-slave chino, freeborn chino, ex-slave moreno criollo(born in Cuba), freeborn moreno criollo, ex-slave moreno de nacion (born in Africa), and three categories of slave: pardo slave, moreno criollo slave and moreno de nacion slave ( Martinez-Alier,1989:98)
Can you feel it?
��On Deconstructing & Unlearning Anti-Blackness in the Latinx Community-Jennifer Mota (Remezcla)��
What do you see?
Marvin Harris, disputes Freyre's findings. During his field research in Brazil, he used photos of Brazilians with different phenotypes; showing them to a variety of Brazilians of different classes and colors, asking them to racially categorize the persons depicted. Forty different racial types were elicited including: "branco, preto, sarara, moreno claro, moreno escuro, mulato, moreno, mulato claro, mulato oscuro, negro, caboclo, escuro, cabo verde, claro, aracuaba, roxo, amarelo, sarara vermelho, caboclo escuro, pardo, branca sarara, mambebe, branco caboclado, moreno oscuro, mulato sarara, gazula, cor de cinza clara, crelo, louro, moreno clarocaboclado, and mulato pele". (Harris, 1964:58)
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Believe!
Words�are�powerful!
YA as a bridge¡!
Not make believe!
Latinx philosophy is philosophical work substantively concerned with Latinxs, including the moral, social, political, epistemic, and linguistic significance of Latinxs and their experiences.[1] Although its emergence as a distinctive, self-identified field is relatively recent, Latinx philosophy includes a substantial body of work that draws from a variety of philosophical traditions, including critical race theory, Latina feminist philosophy, Latinx and Chicanx Studies, various strands of Latin American, Continental, analytic, Caribbean, and Africana philosophy.
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LatinX and Children’s Literature
Toward a humanizing pedagogy: Using Latinx children’s literature with early childhood students
Connecting�the�dots�*****
“My research has demanded that I negotiate divisions both in the field of Latinx studies and children’s literature in order to exist in academia, and to dwell on the parallels, the intersections and the contradictions. Here, I emphasize a history of children’s literature in the academy, and the place of Latinx literature for youth in the larger conversation on what it means to study American childhood and youth. Particularly, I underline how children’s literature in the humanities and Latinx Studies converge in ways that render Latinx authors for youth visible in multiple fields.” In June 2016, at the annual Children’s Literature Association Conference
Journal of Language&Literacy Education�Beyond Mirrors and Windows: A Critical Content Analysis of Latinx Children’s Books �Eliza G. Braden&Sanjuana C. Rodriguez
Abstract: This critical content analysis examines the representation of Latinx characters in 15 picture books published in 2013 and identified by Children’s Cooperative Book Center (CCBC) as having significant Latinx content. The theoretical framework undergirding this study is Critical Race Theory (Ladson-Billings, 1998; Solórzano & Yosso, 2002; Taylor, 2009; Yosso, Villalpando, Delgado Bernal, & Solórzano, 2001). This theory is used to uncover the assumptions and ideologies that are often represented in children’s literature.
Beyond Language and Mirrors
The results of this study indicate that (1) English is privileged in the texts, (2) superficial references to cultural artifacts are present, (3) traditional female centered roles are prevalent, and (4) authors situated books within a utopian society. The authors use these findings to argue for the importance of making curricular decisions with critical attention to text selections and the engagement of young children in critical literacy in early childhood and elementary classrooms. Keywords: Latinx children’s books, Latinx critical race theory, cultural authenticity
¿Que significa?
Where do we go from here?
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