Book Talk and Signing with Professor Laura Chávez-Moreno

Books: A limited number of books will be available at no cost for UCLA students, first come first served

Laura Chávez-Moreno is an award-winning researcher, qualitative social scientist, and assistant professor at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in the Department of Chicana/o & Central American Studies and Department of Education. How do schools make us think about race? And where does Latinx fit in? In How Schools Make Race, Laura Chávez-Moreno shows how schools play a pivotal role in shaping the concept of race and racialized groups. In this talk, she tells the story of how the teachers and students in a racially diverse Spanish-English bilingual education program grappled with conflicting ideas about race and about the Latinx category. She explores how curriculum, pedagogy, policy, and language interplay to form, reinforce, and blur the boundaries of racialized groups. Chávez-Moreno challenges us to reconsider what makes race and invites us to see Latinx as a racialized group. Her research reveals why this shift matters–because how we think about race affects whether our schools can provide youth with an education that challenges racist ideas.

Chávez-Moreno will be joined by two esteemed panelists, Professor of Social Science and Comparative Education, and Chicana/o and Central American Studies at UCLA, and Director of the Center for Critical Race Studies in Education at UCLA, Dr. Daniel Solórzano, and Assistant Director of the Chicano Studies Research Center, Dr. Celia Lacayo. The event will be moderated by Professor of Social Research Methodology at UCLA’s School of Education and Information Studies, and Co-Director of the Language, Learning, and Literacy (L3) Collaborative , Dr. Inmaculada García-Sánchez. RSVP Deadline for Lunch: November 13th, 2024

Event sponsored by the Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute, the Office of Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at UCLA’s School of Education and Information Studies, and the Language, Literacy, and Learning (L3) Collaborative at UCLA’s School of Education and Information Studies.