Mexican American Student Resistance: From Spontaneity to Organization

Having challenged student resistance scholarship for glorifying forms of resistance that tend to be self-destructive to students, the field has shifted to supporting and advancing more transformational forms of resistance, such as organizing campaigns for social justice issues. While this is a welco...

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Published inJournal of Latinos and education Vol. 17; no. 2; pp. 146 - 158
Main Author Malott, Curry
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Philadelphia Routledge 03.04.2018
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Action Research
Activism
Culture Conflict
Educational Change
Geographic Regions
Hispanic American Students
Hispanic Americans
Land Settlement
Marxian Analysis
Mexican Americans
Participatory Research
Resistance (Psychology)
Resistance to Change
Social Justice
Social Systems
Student resistance
United States History
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Summary:Having challenged student resistance scholarship for glorifying forms of resistance that tend to be self-destructive to students, the field has shifted to supporting and advancing more transformational forms of resistance, such as organizing campaigns for social justice issues. While this is a welcome advance, the conception of transformative employed by researchers tends to be limited to reformist agendas. Situating student resistance in a historical context through a re-reading of Marx and Lenin offers a deeper framework for understanding and organizing student resistance. Making these points, I draw on the Mexican American historical and contemporary context for illustrations.
ISSN:1534-8431
1532-771X
DOI:10.1080/15348431.2017.1283228