LatCrit and Education Volume 2

Yolanda (Jolie) Medina is Professor and Chair of the Teacher Education Department at the Borough of Manhattan Community College/City University of New York where she teaches Social Foundations of Education. She is the author of Critical Aesthetic Pedagogy: Toward a Theory of Self and Social Empowerment (2012), the co-author of Latinos/as on the East Coast: A Critical Reader (2015), the Social Foundations Reader Volumes I and II (2016 and 2024) and The Encyclopedia of Critical Understandings of Latinx and Global Education (2022). She has numerous journal articles and book chapters on Critical Race Theory, LatCrit and Education, and Arts and Education. In addition, she is the editor of the Critical Studies of Latinx in the Americas book series. Juan A. Ríos Vega is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education, Leadership, and Counseling at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. He earned his doctorate in Philosophy in Educational Studies, Cultural Studies Concentration from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2014), Women’s and Gender Studies Certificate (2014). His research focuses on multilingual learners, critical race theory, queers of color epistemologies, and social justice education. In 2020, Dr. Ríos published High School Latinx Counternarratives: Experiences in School and Post-graduation. This book was selected as one of the 2021 Critics Choice Awards Books by the American Educational Studies Association (AESA).

• Forward: Margarita Machado-Casas - Acknowledgements - Introduction: Yolanda Medina - Section I: Testimonios y Pláticas - Multidimensional Backgrounds and Experiences of Latinx Scholars in Academia: Melissa J. Cuba, Monique Matute-Chavarria, and Carlos Lavin - The Administration of Fear: Un testimonio: Jack Morales - Cultivating Digital Third Space through Critical Race Feminista Digital Pedagogy: Ruby Osorio and Brianna Ramirez - Developing critical consciousness in Latinx doctoral candidates: Testimonios of three novice Latinx scholars: Regina L. Suriel, James Martínez, Adolfo Laguna, Javier Gonzales, and Andres Restrepo - Section II: Feminista and Latina studies - Lo Que Está Pa' Ti Nadie Te Lo Quita –Notes to Our Younger Selves: Doctoral Latinas’ Testimonios of Resistance: Doctoral Latinas Testimonio Collective - Latinx Diaspora Literacies with Pre-Service Teachers: Sanjuana Rodriguez and Paula Guerra - Por Nosotras, Para Nosotras: Amplifying Testimonios of Latina and Afro-Latina College Experiences Amidst Anti-DEI Legislation: Dahlia S. Fabregat, Sophia De La Cruz, Emily Santiana, Taryrn T.C. Brown, and Mercedes M. Machado - Section III: Cultural Wealth - Beyond Grit: Dismantling Deficit Ideologies and Empowering Latinx Students in Higher Education through LatCrit Analysis: Sandra L. Guzman Foster - Empowering CAMP Scholars: Insights from a Deep South University Experience: Rosalyn Martinez, James Martinez, and Forrest R. Parker III - Section IV: Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) - Moving from Theory to Practice: Institutionalizing Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity at an HSI/MSI, Land Grant University: Teresa Maria “Linda” Scholz, Judith Flores Carmona, Susana Ibarra Johnson - Recovering our Conscious History at St. Mary’s University Through Chicana Feminism and Literature: Margaret Cantu Sanchez - Latinx Students Gaining Visibility through Mentoring at a Hispanic-Serving Institution: Cecilia Contreras and Luis Rodolfo Garcia Carrillo - “Semilla to Flor” Framework: Nurturing a Mindset Shift Across Higher Education Agents to Achieve Equitable STEM Pathways for Latinx Students: Janet Rocha, Mara N. Lopez, Tamara Coronella, Lindsay Romasanta, and Lucy Arellano - Section V: Community College - “I actually started liking statistics!”: Exploring Latinx Community College Students’ Perceptions and Self-Efficacy on Mathematics: Taylor Darwin and Jeasik Cho - Systemic Barriers and Resistance: Latina Student Experiences with High School Advanced Courses and Programs and Community College Choice: Estela Ballón - Section VI: Teacher Education - Working from Within - BESO as a Decolonizing Practice in Predominantly White Institutions: Lindsay Grow Harrison, Michelle Schulze, and Tabitha Hornby - Latino Faculty in Teacher Education: Everyday Lived Experiences of Being Silenced: Ramon Vasquez - Section VII: Language Education - Investment and Identity: The Case Study of Two Latinx Chinese Language Learners at a Hispanic Serving Institution: Hsuan-Ying Liu - Enhancing Intercultural Agency: Critical Perspectives through Oral Storytelling Tasks in English Language Teaching to Latinx students in Colombia: Ángela Patricia Velasquez Hoyos - Todavia es lenguaje. Latinas Negotiating Raciolinguistic Ideologies in a Community-Engaged Spanish Class: Anthony J. Harb - Authors’ Biographies