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The Aoki Center & UC Davis Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion presents -
UC Davis Hispanic Serving Institution Speaker Series with Andrea Dyrness and Enrique Sepúlveda III
Latinx Civil Rights Struggles for Educational Equity
A talk based off of their 2020 book - Border Thinking - Latinx Youth Decolonizing Citizenship
Rich accounts of how Latinx migrant youth experience belonging across borders. As anti-immigrant nationalist discourses escalate globally, Border Thinking offers critical insights into how young people in the Latinx diaspora experience belonging, make sense of racism, and long for change. Andrea Dyrness and Enrique Sepúlveda III ask not how to help the diaspora youth assimilate but what the United States and Europe can learn about citizenship from these diasporic youth.
Border Thinking offers critical insights into how Latinx youth speak back to racializing, colonial discourses that frame them as outsiders. It is theoretically sophisticated, engaging, and methodologically innovative, offering new insights into participatory methodologies—but its true contribution lies in how it reveals young people’s creative imaginings of transnational forms of citizenship and belonging that are too often silenced by integration initiatives focused on national assimilation.
For more information, please contact Nina Marie Bell at [email protected]