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Publication Date: 2016
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¡No Cierren Nuestra Escuela! Farm Worker Mothers as Cultural Citizens in an Educational Community Mobilization Effort
Deeb-Sossa, Natalia; Moreno, Melissa
Journal of Latinos and Education, v15 n1 p39-57 2016
Mexican immigrant farm-worker mothers' class, race, citizenship status, and jurisdictional status of their town in a Northern California community rendered them invisible. However, when the school board decided to close the elementary school the mothers mobilized. Drawing on these mothers' "'fototestimonios" we examine how they, as cultural citizens, resisted local practices of educational inequity. They wanted to ensure an education for their children. The "fototestimonios" reveal how farm-worker mothers: (1) negotiated as a collective with the school board; (2) sought negotiation and schooling alternatives; and (3) expressed cultural citizenship through collective efforts to be included within the US polity.
Descriptors: Mothers, Agricultural Laborers, Mexican Americans, Immigrants, Social Class, Race, Citizenship, Elementary Schools, School Closing, Equal Education, Boards of Education, Persuasive Discourse, Mother Attitudes, Activism, Photography, Disadvantaged, Community Characteristics, School Community Relationship, Safety
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California
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