Connecting Community Voices: Using a Latino/a Critical Race Theory Lens on Environmental Justice Advocacy

Anguiano, Claudia; Milstein, Tema; Larkin, Iliana De; Chen, Yea‐Wen; Sandoval, Jennifer A.

doi:10.1080/17513057.2012.661445

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“…This is particularly important because organizations that improve the natural or built environment of a neighborhood also risk contributing to gentrification and displacement of people intended to benefit from their efforts, thus increasing segregation and inequality (Dale & Newman, 2009). Similar to critical race theory, an intersectional approach acknowledges that people of color experience intersecting oppressions including ethnicity, culture, nationality, and language barriers (Anguiano et al, 2012).…”

Section: Implications For Community Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Justice Organizing in a Gentrifying Community: Navigating Dilemmas of Representation, Issue Selection, and Recruitment

Krings

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2020

Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Service

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Environmental justice organizations aim to secure an equitable distribution of environmental resources through the participation and self-determination of affected people, particularly communities of color. Yet organizing in a market economy is complicated: As communities become greener, gentrification can follow, thereby inadvertently displacing low-income communities of color and reproducing environmental injustices. This study informs antiracist community practice methods by examining strategic and ethical dilemmas embedded within an environmental justice organization that is located in a gentrifying Mexican American neighborhood in Chicago. Drawing from interviews, we examine members’ perceptions relating to representation, recruitment, and issue selection. We reveal key considerations for community organizations and residents as they work to promote environmental equity without contributing to the marginalization or displacement of communities of color.

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Section: Implications For Community Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Justice Organizing in a Gentrifying Community: Navigating Dilemmas of Representation, Issue Selection, and Recruitment

Krings

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2020

Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Service

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“…LatCrit in education serves as a framework to theorize and examine the implicit and explicit ways race and racism impact processes. This framework focuses on the intersectionalities of oppression (Crenshaw, 1989) that emerge from the various aspects of Latinx identities, such as culture, nationality, ethnicity, immigration status, phenotype, accent, surname, and language (Anguiano et al, 2012;Delgado Bernal, 2002;Yosso, 2006).…”

Section: Critical Race Theory and Latino Critical Race Theorymentioning

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Southwest Borderland Voices and Stories: Community Cultural Wealth as Living Literacies

Henderson

2020

AMAE Journal

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This study qualitatively examines the literacy experiences of three Southwest Borderland Latinos who left high school before graduating. Addressing a gap in the literature that reveals the limited attention paid to how students who left high school before graduating generate and use community cultural wealth (Burciaga & Erbstein, 2012), this investigation explores the vibrant role and contribution of community cultural wealth in literacy development. Through the frameworks of New Literacy Studies (NLS) and family literacy within the context of the Southwest Borderlands, and employing the tool of counternarratives through a Latino Critical Race Theory (LatCrit) lens, this study provides a platform for validating and affirming the voices, stories, experiences, and knowledges of the research participants. Utilizing portraiture as the methodology illuminates the living literacies that transpired when the participants read their world and the word (Freire, 2006).

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“…LatCrit theorists posit social transformation and activism as one way to challenge the dominant ideology, especially in marginalized communities. For these reasons, LatCrit theorists "urge researchers to highlight the experience of people of color as validated holders and creators of knowledge" (Anguiano et al, 2012;Huber, Lopez, Malagon, Velez, & Solorzano, 2008, p. 128).…”

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Perceptions of College Among Latina/o Elementary Students

Núñez

García

2017

Sage Open

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This study uses empirical data from a version of the Clark doll experiment and Latina/o Critical Race Theory (LatCrit) to determine the factors that shape the perceptions of college among 35 randomly selected Latina/o children in Grades 2nd to 5th. The findings of this study lead to two conclusions: (a) that Latina/o children hold their race/ethnicity in lower regard when compared to Whites, exhibit an ambivalence regarding identity that negatively affects their self-esteem and their perceptions of college as an attainable goal; and (b) that Latinas perceived themselves more favorably than Latinos in all categories, which positively affects their perceptions of a college education.

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Connecting Community Voices: Using a Latino/a Critical Race Theory Lens on Environmental Justice Advocacy

Cited by 23 publications

References 31 publications

Environmental Justice Organizing in a Gentrifying Community: Navigating Dilemmas of Representation, Issue Selection, and Recruitment

Environmental Justice Organizing in a Gentrifying Community: Navigating Dilemmas of Representation, Issue Selection, and Recruitment

Southwest Borderland Voices and Stories: Community Cultural Wealth as Living Literacies

Perceptions of College Among Latina/o Elementary Students

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