Language, Race, and Latinx Identity in Schools and Students
The M.A. Educational Transformation and the Program in Education, Inquiry & Justice invite you to a series on “Language, Race, and Latinx Identity in Schools and Students” featuring Dr. Laura Chávez-Moreno on “Unsettling Latinx as a Racial Construct vis-à-vis the Spanish Language: Recognizing Multiple Colonialisms in the Racialization of Latinidad” and Dr. Mike Mena on “Soft Linguistic Terrorism’ in the 21st Century: Standardizing Life & Language”.
Friday, January 20, 5:00pm-6:30pm ET
Car Barn 201
Georgetown University
This in-person event is limited to members of the Georgetown University community and non-Georgetown University members who can provide proof of vaccination. Attendance will be taken at the door. To watch a virtual livestream of the event, please visit our Facebook page.
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Laura Chávez-Moreno
Laura C. Chávez-Moreno, PhD, is an award-winning interdisciplinary scholar and assistant professor at UCLA’s César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies. Professor Chávez-Moreno studies how schooling teaches about race/racism and makes Latinidad. She connects these theorizations with questions about educational equity, particularly in the areas of language and literacy. Her research critiques systems of oppression in schooling and supports advancing education for self-determination. She is an expert in critical race theory in education and she uses critical theories of race from diverse academic disciplines to examine educational policy and practices. Professor Chávez-Moreno is a 2022 National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, one of the most prestigious early-career research awards for education researchers. Her research has been published in the American Educational Research Journal (2021), Handbook of Latinos & Education (2 nd ed., 2021), Journal of Teacher Education (2021), Educational Researcher (2022), among others.
Mike Mena
Dr. Mike Mena is a Mexican American researcher and Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY. Mike focuses on the ideological perceptions of race and language in the context of American education and was awarded the NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship (2021) to conduct his research. As an educational technologist and public intellectual, Mike’s award-winning YouTube channel, The Social Life of Language, serves as a contemporary and activist pedagogical model to those interested in producing accessible and engaging educational content designed to engage wider publics, with special attention paid to reaching students of color as well as promoting the work of marginalized scholars. For his service and media expertise, he was awarded the Carnegie Educational Technologist Fellowship (2021).
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