Raza Struggle and the Movement for Ethnic Studies

Decolonial Pedagogies, Literacies, and Methodologies

By: Miguel Zavala, Peter McLaren, Michael Adrian Peters

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eBook | 24 December 2018 | Edition Number 1

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Raza Struggle and the Movement for Ethnic Studies: Decolonial Pedagogies, Literacies, and Methodologies presents an investigation of decolonization in the context of education and what this means for ethnic studies projects. It accomplishes this exploration by looking at the history of Raza communities, defined broadly as the Indigenous and mestizo working class peoples from Latin America, with a focus on the complex yet unifying Chicanx-Mexican experience in the Southwest United States. This book bridges the fields of history, pedagogy, and decolonization through a creative and interweaving methodology that includes critical historiography, dialogue, autoethnography, and qualitative inquiry. Collectively, this work opens new ground, challenging scholars and educators to rethink critical education rooted in traditional and Western frameworks. Arguing for decolonial and Indigenous approaches, the author invites educators and cultural workers to reflect on learning and community in their praxis. Raza Struggle and the Movement for Ethnic Studies will be of interest to students of ethnic studies and Latin American and Mexican history. It is also relevant to teachers, teacher educators, and scholars who are intent on creating spaces of hope and possibility rooted in Freirean, decolonial, and Indigenous frameworks.

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"Miguel Zavala's work on the struggle and movement for Raza studies and ethnic studies could not be timelier or more critical in this era of the rise of fascism and its fear-based reaction to the demographic shift that has taken place in public schools, particularly in the U.S. Southwest. His insight into Indigenous epistemologies, critical pedagogies, and the critical analysis of political-economy's impact on Chicanx peoples as viable possibilities for decolonizing and liberatory educational models-far from what we have seen in the traditional binary 'either/or' education proposals for the racialized and economically exploited-provides a nuanced yet solid foundation from which educational scholars and practitioners can operationalize and transform the institutional structures to make them responsive to the holistic needs of Raza youth." -Sean Arce, Educational Consultant at the Xicanx Institute for Teaching and Organizing