Transforming Educational Pathways for Chicana/o Students
A Critical Race Feminista Praxis

Dolores Delgado Bernal (Author), Enrique Aleman Jr (Author)

9780807757918

Paperback / softback, published 23 December 2016

144 pages
22.3 x 15.2 x 1 cm, 0.218 kg

This book chronicles a 10-year journey to develop and sustain Adelante, a university-school-community partnership designed specifically to address public education’s failure to meet the needs of students of color, particularly Chicana/o students. The authors examine the persistent barriers, mistakes, challenges, and successes that emerged in their community-based partnership with elementary school students, college students, teachers, parents, and educational leaders. Intertwining critical race theories with Chicana feminist theories, they propose a “critical race feminista praxis” and provide real-world examples of what this praxis can look like in the context of a racialized, gendered, and colonial landscape. The book offers practical advice and theoretical insight to those interested in disrupting pervasive inequities that shape the (mis)education of marginalized students.