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Latina/o/x Education in Chicago: Roots, Resistance, and Transformation

edited by Isaura Pulido, Angelica Rivera and Ann M. Aviles
contributions by Cristina Pacione-Zayas, Isaura Pulido, Angelica Rivera, Arlene Torres, Mirelsie Velázquez, Leticia Villarreal Sosa, Jaime Alanís, Ann M Avilés, Gabriel Alejandro Cortez, Erica R Dávila, Lilia Fernández and Nilda Flores-González

University of Illinois Press, 2022
eISBN: 978-0-252-05350-4 | Cloth: 978-0-252-04450-2 | Paper: 978-0-252-08657-1
Library of Congress Classification LC2675.C55L37 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 371.82968077311

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC

ABOUT THIS BOOK
In this collection, local experts use personal narratives and empirical data to explore the history of Mexican American and Puerto Rican education in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) system. The essays focus on three themes: the historical context of segregated and inferior schooling for Latina/o/x students; the changing purposes and meanings of education for Latina/o/x students from the 1950s through today; and Latina/o/x resistance to educational reforms grounded in neoliberalism. Contributors look at stories of student strength and resistance, the oppressive systems forced on Mexican American women, the criminalization of Puerto Ricans fighting for liberatory education, and other topics of educational significance. As they show, many harmful past practices remain the norm--or have become worse. Yet Latina/o/x communities and students persistently engage in transformative practices shaping new approaches to education that promise to reverberate not only in the city but nationwide.

Insightful and enlightening, Latina/o/x Education in Chicago brings to light the ongoing struggle for educational equity in the Chicago Public Schools.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Isaura Pulido is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Inquiry and Curriculum Studies at Northeastern Illinois University. Angelica Rivera is the director of the Proyecto Pa'Lante at Northeastern Illinois University. Ann M. Aviles is an associate professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Delaware. She is the author of From Charity to Equity: Race, Homelessness, and Urban Schools.

REVIEWS

"It’s impossible to read this text and not be moved by Chicago’s Mexican and Puerto Rican community’s decades-long struggle for equity against tremendous odds with an establishment that imagines little more than dispossessing them, when this could be an entirely different narrative of valuing and honoring their strength, talent, acumen, and soul. Texts like these bring much-needed analysis and attention to the plight of Chicago’s Latinx community with provocative, vivid narrative and evidence that promises to inspire a new generation. Kudos to Isaura Pulido, Angelica Rivera, and Ann M. Aviles for shining an ennobling light on a community of destiny in Chicago’s public schools."--Angela Valenzuela, author of Subtractive Schooling: U.S. Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring

"A growing body of research has sought to critically examine and unpack the 'browning of America' and the latinization of U.S. schools. Spanning a period of seventy years, Latina/o/x Education in Chicago provides a rich, deeply textured, and nuanced look at the educational experiences and outcomes for Latinxs in the Midwest. This volume is as timely as it is important, making a significant contribution to the literature and providing an invaluable resource to policy makers and practitioners."--Jason G. Irizarry, author of The Latinization of U.S. Schools: Successful Teaching and Learning in Shifting Cultural Contexts

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover

Title

Contents

Foreword Nilda Flores-González

Acknowledgments

Editors' Note on Terms

Introduction / Ann M. Aviles, Isaura B. Pulido, and Angelica Rivera

Part I. Roots

1. Schooling Puerto Rican Chicago / Mirelsie Velázquez

2. Mexican American Women’s Stories in 1950s Chicago Schools / Angelica Rivera

3. Between Poverty and Segregation: Latino/a Students Surviving the Urban Crisis in Chicago’s Public Schools, 1980-2000 / Lila Fernandez

4. Blowouts: Latinidad and Chicanismo in Late-1960s Chicago / Jaime Alanís

Part II. Resistance

5. Roberto Clemente Community Academy: A Counter-Narrative on Chicago School Reform, 1988-1998 / Cristina Pacione-Zayas

6. Latina/o/x Education in Chicago Public Schools: Community Research, Resistance, and Representation / Erica R. Davila nad Ann M. Aviles

7. Mexican-Origin Boys Negotiating Social and Academic Identity in a Racialized School Context / Leticia Villareeal Sosa

Part III. Transformation

8. ¿Dónde Está Nuestra Escuela? (Where Is Our High School?): Education, Politics, and a Hunger Strike in Chicago / Gabriel Cortez

9. Critical Civic Praxis: Examining the Intersection of Hip-Hop Music, Community-Based Organizations, and the Development of Latina/o/x Youth Consciousness / Isaura B. Pulido

Afterword / Arlene Torres

Contributors

Index

Back cover

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