¡No cierren nuestra escuela! farm worker mothers as cultural citizens in an educational community mobilization effort |
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| Authors: | Natalia Deeb-Sossa Melissa Moreno |
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| Institution: | 1. Chicana/o Studies, University of California at Davis;2. Ethnic Studies, Woodland Community College |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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| Keywords: | Community activism community mobilizing cultural citizenship educational inequity farm worker mothers’ fototestimonios Mexican rural community |
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