How Schools Make Race

“In How Schools Make Race, Chávez-Moreno moves past the Black-White binary that limits our understanding of how racialization occurs within every minoritized group. This project is a powerful example of how intersectionality can operate and create complex and critical notions of identity that include race, ethnicity, language, class, gender, and other identity markers. This book is an important corrective for schools and communities coming to grips with ‘diversity’ in its many forms.” ~Gloria Ladson-Billings, professor emerita, University of Wisconsin, and past president, National Academy of Education

“Conceptualizing Latinx experience is complex because it is wedged between culture and race. How Schools Make Race provides a compelling history of Latinx double colonization that challenges cultural essentialisms, including the common-held assumption that speaking Spanish is a prerequisite to group membership. Instead, Chávez-Moreno powerfully centers racialization as the shared experience of Latinx students in US society and schools. CRT, LatCrit, and antiracist educators will find this book indispensable.” ~Zeus Leonardo, professor of education, UC Berkeley, and author of Race Frameworks: A Multidimensional Theory of Racism and Education

“An illuminating account of the ways that bilingual education programs produce ideas about race and Latinidad. Chávez-Moreno pays deep respect to the origins and aspirations of these programs, while taking seriously the contradictory terrain they navigate. A model study of racial formation.” ~Daniel Martinez HoSang, professor of American studies, Yale University