Black Lives Matter to Latinx Students: Exploring Social Practices of Latinx Youth as Activists in the Rural Midwest

Autor/in	Walker, Amy
Titel	Black Lives Matter to Latinx Students: Exploring Social Practices of Latinx Youth as Activists in the Rural Midwest
Quelle	In: Journal of Research in Rural Education, 37 (2021) 7, S.38-56 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1551-0670
Schlagwörter	Hispanic American Students; African Americans; Activism; Rural Areas; Racial Bias; Ethnicity; Social Bias; Youth; Diversity; Identification (Psychology); Student Participation; Social Influences; Semiotics; Geographic Location; Cultural Influences; Religion; Knowledge Level + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Student; Students; Hispanoamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Afroamerikaner; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Ethnizität; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Sozialer Einfluss; Semiotik; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Wissensbasis
Abstract	In June 2020, in a rural Rust Belt town in the Midwest, over 100 residents stood on the grounds of the county courthouse and publicly protested for Black Lives Matter. Once students began to arrive, the protest shifted. Latinx youth led chants, held signs, and stood in the front of the other protesters, moving the protest forward, away from the courthouse and toward the busy street of passing cars. I knew these de facto protest leaders well--they were my former students. This town is considered part of the New Latino Diaspora (NLD), a U.S. region not traditionally associated with Latinx settlement population. Here Latinx families represent almost 30% of the population and have been marginalized in community spaces and schools. Rural students are stereotyped, and Latinx students are marginalized as well, bearing layers of cultural and social inequity. This study disrupts the assumption of rural middle America as simple, homogenous, and conservative and, using geosemiotics, seeks to explore the intersectional ways in which Latinx youth position and identify themselves as activists, expanding current conceptualizations of rurality and literacy while examining how Black lives matter to Latinx youth. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Penn State University College of Education, Center on Rural Education and Communities. 310B Rackley Building, University Park, PA 16802. Tel: 814-863-2031; Web site: http://www.jrre.psu.edu/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01