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Publications
Reborujando the research process: Re/centering undocumented politics of dis/closure
Nos/otrxs que fuimos separados: Recovering testimonios of separation and resistance
Reborujando the research process: Re/centering undocumented politics of dis/closure
In this article, three immigrant scholars (two with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and one formerly undocumented) come together to reflect and theorize about and from their experiences engaging in research with and about undocumented immigrants. Through a Chicanx/Latinx feminist framework, the authors share their historias to dissect their lived experiences as researchers and research participants and how these experiences inform their understanding and engagement with research today. The authors discuss several themes, including the politics of dis/closure, the spirit of reciprocity, and methodological gaps in post-research reflection for healing and closure.
Entre La Casa y La Calle: Latinx Childhood Re-memories of Space and Place
Nos/otrxs que fuimos separados: Recovering testimonios of separation and resistance
Reborujando the research process: Re/centering undocumented politics of dis/closure
This article challenges previous deficit narratives on Latinx communities by centering childhood re-memories of Latinxes and complicating our understanding of their childhood experiences in historically disinvested communities. Drawing on in-depth interviews and fieldnotes, we examine how Latinx participants recounted the impact that everyday racism, violence, patriarchy, and gentrification had on their childhood, their neighborhoods, and families. Although their re-memories were at least a decade old, they vividly remembered ambivalent and contradictory re-memories entre la casa y la calle. Through these re-memories, Latinx participants were able to map the competing systems that shaped their experiences and how they impacted their communities. We conclude this article by exploring the resistance strategies that Latinxes deploy to negotiate these spatialities and their place in the
Nos/otrxs que fuimos separados: Recovering testimonios of separation and resistance
Nos/otrxs que fuimos separados: Recovering testimonios of separation and resistance
Divergent Values: A Family Critical Race Theory Analysis of Families of Color and Their Perceptions
In the US xenophobia has been on the rise and current immigration policies have increased the occurrence of family separation. Experiences with family separation profoundly impact children and have a detrimental effect on their development and educational outcomes. However, limited research has been conducted exploring the long-term impacts of family separation on education, particularly as it relates to Latinx tender-age children (below the age of twelve). In the current political climate, Latinx children are precariously positioned to live under the constant threat of family separation due to anti-immigrant policies and xenophobic school climates. This hostile environment can have devastating effects on the educational access and attainment of Latinx children.
Divergent Values: A Family Critical Race Theory Analysis of Families of Color and Their Perceptions
Divergent Values: A Family Critical Race Theory Analysis of Families of Color and Their Perceptions
Divergent Values: A Family Critical Race Theory Analysis of Families of Color and Their Perceptions
In seeking strategies for diversifying the US public school teacher workforce, education policymakers and teacher education programs need to meaningfully consider input from the families of PK-12 Students of Color. Using a Family Critical Race Theory (FamilyCrit) analysis, this article examines the educational experiences and related perspectives of Families of Color about teachers and the teaching profession. Findings reveal that Families of Color perceive teaching as a form of caring and teachers as extended family members. Families of Color wrestled with a divergence of values in encouraging their children to pursue their passions, while concomitantly confronting economic injustices. Findings challenge dominant narratives that Families of Color do not have college or career aspirations for their children.
Testimonio in Education
Divergent Values: A Family Critical Race Theory Analysis of Families of Color and Their Perceptions
Review of Queen Mothers: Articulating the Spirit of Black Women Teacher-Leaders
Testimonio involves bearing witness to the collective experiences of historically marginalized communities, particularly as it relates to their oppression, resistance, and resilience. As an approach, it is an inherently decolonial process since it decenters Eurocentric knowledge and challenges power. Unlike oral history, memoir, or autoethnography, testimonio positions itself as an urgent and political voicing that rejects notions of objectivity and neutrality. Instead, it posits that there exist multiple truths of which each contributes to producing our understanding of a collective reality. Similar to these different practices, testimonio does not have a predictable or set structure as it can take the form of a poem, speech, interview, letter, and so on. Each of these, however, involves a public accounting of human experiences that have the ability to build solidarity.
Review of Queen Mothers: Articulating the Spirit of Black Women Teacher-Leaders
Divergent Values: A Family Critical Race Theory Analysis of Families of Color and Their Perceptions
Review of Queen Mothers: Articulating the Spirit of Black Women Teacher-Leaders
As they share their own experiences, the scholars in this collection othermother a new generation of teachers, teacher-educators, and leaders by documenting their own resilience, resistance, and persistence in educational attainment and leadership roles.
Social distancing while Latinx
The Marked Narrative: The Latina Immigrant Experience in "Post-Racial" America
We were the ones left behind: A testimonio of family separation
Intimacy looks different now. Except, intimacy for People of Color has always looked different. For Black and Brown communities this has been the root of our survival, the well from which we pull new strength to survive in sterile and unwholesome environments.
We were the ones left behind: A testimonio of family separation
The Marked Narrative: The Latina Immigrant Experience in "Post-Racial" America
We were the ones left behind: A testimonio of family separation
I know what happens when children are separated from their families.They collapse into themselves and try to become as small as an atom, infinitely divided.
The Marked Narrative: The Latina Immigrant Experience in "Post-Racial" America
The Marked Narrative: The Latina Immigrant Experience in "Post-Racial" America
The Marked Narrative: The Latina Immigrant Experience in "Post-Racial" America
In post-racial America racialized stigmata and generalizations continue to dictate immigration policy and mainstream perceptions of Latino/a immigrants. New narratives— counter stories— allow us to redefine those images and develop an accurate understanding of individuals and their identity group.
Research Projects
Nos/otrxs Que Fuimos Separados: Recovering Testimonios of Separation and Resistance
Abriendo Caminos/ Opening Pathways to Students of Color into the Teaching Profession
Abriendo Caminos/ Opening Pathways to Students of Color into the Teaching Profession
Abriendo Caminos/ Opening Pathways to Students of Color into the Teaching Profession
Abriendo Caminos/ Opening Pathways to Students of Color into the Teaching Profession
Abriendo Caminos/ Opening Pathways to Students of Color into the Teaching Profession
Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada
Abriendo Caminos/ Opening Pathways to Students of Color into the Teaching Profession
Latinx Voices of Southern Nevada
