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How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America

How Schools Make Race: Teaching Latinx Racialization in America

Chávez-Moreno, Laura C.
Milner, H. Richard, IV

Paperback

Series: Race and Education

Bilingual EducationGeneral Education

ISBN10: 1682539229
ISBN13: 9781682539224
Publisher: Harvard Education PR
Published: Oct 1 2024
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Awards: Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards

Winner of a 2025 AESA Critics' Choice Book Award
Winner of the 2025 AAHHE Book of the Year Award by an Early Career Scholar
Winner of the 2024 Foreword INDIES Silver Award for Education

An investigation into how schooling can enhance and hinder critical-racial consciousness through the making of the Latinx racialized group

In How Schools Make Race, Laura C. Chávez-Moreno uncovers the process through which schools implicitly and explicitly shape their students' concept of race and the often unintentional consequences of this on educational equity. Chávez-Moreno sheds light on how the complex interactions among educational practices, policies, pedagogy, language, and societal ideas interplay to form, reinforce, and blur the boundaries of racialized groups, a dynamic which creates contradictions in classrooms and communities committed to antiracism.

In this provocative book, Chávez-Moreno urges readers to rethink race, to reconceptualize Latinx as a racialized group, and to pay attention to how schools construct Latinidad (a concept about Latinx experience and identity) in relation to Blackness, Indigeneity, Asianness, and Whiteness. The work explores, as an example, how Spanish-English bilingual education programs engage in race-making work. It also illuminates how schools can offer ambitious teachings to raise their students' critical consciousness about race and racialization.

Ultimately, Chávez-Moreno's groundbreaking work makes clear that understanding how our schools teach about racialized groups is crucial to understanding how our society thinks about race and offers solutions to racial inequities. The book invites educators and scholars to embrace ambitious teaching about the ambivalence of race so that teachers and students are prepared to interrogate racist ideas and act toward just outcomes.

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