Storying Son Jarocho Fandango
A Culturally Decolonizing Pedagogy in Ethnic Studies

Cueponcaxochitl D. Moreno Sandoval (Author), Lirio Patton (Author), Julissa Ruiz Ramirez (Author), Gregorio G. Rocha-Tabera (Author), Jennifer Campos Lopez (Author), Martha Gonzalez (Foreword by)

9780807769508

Paperback / softback, published 26 July 2024

208 pages
22.9 x 15.6 x 1 cm, 0.295 kg

What happens when Chicanx students' educational experiences are shaped by the activation of ancestral worlds? Born of songs like La Bamba, oral traditions, call and response practices, body as an instrument, and embodying ecologies, the authors posit son jarocho fandango (SJF) methodologies as a tool of convivencia/conviviality, communal healing, positive identity formation, and agency. Against the backdrop of white settler colonialism, members of the intergenerational Son Xinachtli Collective formed across two U.S.--Mexican border states and two ethnic studies university courses. The Collective follows the tradition of the SJF decolonial movement, positioning SJF as an ancestral elder of the African diasporic, Mexican Indigenous, Spanish, and Arabic traditions--whose threat of extinction sparked a cultural revitalization. The survival of SJF and its ancestral worlds supersedes the ruptures of colonialism. From ethnic studies classroom practices to organizing SJF in the community, this work highlights the possibilities of nurturing co-liberation.

• Contents
• Foreword 
  Martha Gonzá
  lez  
  xiii
• Series Foreword 
  Django Paris  
  xv
• Preface 
  Lirio Patton  
  xix
• With Deep Gratitude  
  xxiii
• Pró
  logo: El fandango jarocho como herramienta pedagó
  gica  
  xxvii
  Por Gilberto Gutié
  rrez Silva y Gisela Farí
  as Luna
• 1.  
  Winding Into the Fandango Vortex  
  1
  Envisioning Son Caracol  
  2
  Note to the Reader  
  7
  Culturally Decolonizing Pedagogy  
  7
  Organization of the Book  
  13
• 2.  
  Grounding an Understanding of Son Jarocho Fandango Pedagogy  
  15
  Theoretically Grounding Application of Son Jarocho Fandango as a Culturally Decolonizing Pedagogy  
  16
  Experiencing SJF'
  s Ontological Structures  
  28
  Son Caracol Taking Root  
  33
  Student Body at Cucunuchi University, a Brief Overview  
  36
  Ethnic Studies Son Jarocho Fandango Students—
  Blossoms  
  38
• 3.  
  A Call-and-Response Approach to Activating Ancestral Worlds in the Classroom  
  39
  Introducing ETHS 4975 Afro-Mexican Indigenous Cultural Practice, Fall 2019 and Spring 2020  
  44
  Circling Up With Students as Knowledge Keepers and (Emerging) Experts  
  47
  Entering the Portal of Son Jarocho Fandango Ecologies and Possibilities  
  47
  Collective Agency Toward Co-Liberation  
  76
  Son Caracol Community Agreements  
  77
  La Peñ
  a Cultural Center (2019)  
  79
  Annual Indigenous Peoples Day Event—
  Indigenous Students in Activism (ISA)  
  80
  Lessons On Institutionalizing Son Jarocho Fandango Practice at a Public University  
  84
• 4.  
  Student-Led Co-Liberation Qualities of the Son Jarocho Fandango Movement  
  87
  Student-Led Fandanguitos  
  88
  Communities Engaged in Son Jarocho Fandango as a Decolonial Praxis  
  116
• 5.  
  Trans-Bordering, Transgressive, Transformative Aspirations  
  119
  Overview  
  119
  Conclusion: Winding Down the Written Fandango  
  132
• Appendix A: Son Jarocho Instruments  
  137
• Appendix B: Methodological Notes: Son Jarocho Fandango as Method  
  139
• Appendix C: Maestra Angela Flores on Teaching Son Jarocho: Honoring and Creating Relationships With Indigenous Musicians of Son Jarocho  
  147
  Angela Flores
• Appendix D: Son Caracol Members'
  Connection to SJF and This Project  
  151
• Appendix E: Key and Recurring Terms  
  153
• References  
  155
• Index  
  165
• About the Authors  
  171