Narratives of Gente Decente: Spanish Literacy in the Texas Escuelitas

Enrique Degollado; Desiree M Pallais-Downing; Rosalyn Harvey-Torres; Randy C Bell

doi:10.3102/1894229

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Narratives of Gente Decente: Spanish Literacy in the Texas Escuelitas

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Narratives of Gente Decente: Spanish Literacy in the Texas Escuelitas

Enrique Degollado, Desiree M Pallais-Downing, Rosalyn Harvey-Torres and Randy C Bell

Proceedings of the 2022 AERA Annual Meeting

01/01/2022

DOI: 10.3102/1894229

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine how these poems alongside the participants’ oral histories inscribed narratives of gente decente, or decent people, demonstrating that literacy practices are never void of ideology (Street, 1984). Indeed, we submit that literacy practices are socially constructed, situated, and ideological (Barton & Hamilton, 1998; Street, 1995). We argue that the gente decente narrative is an entanglement of resistance and resilience in the face of hegemonic whiteness while at the same time aimed at ridding the “savageness” often associated with indigeneity (Saldaña-Portillo, 2016). Additionally, we maintain that these competing narratives and discourses are part of colonial and imperial legacy in unique geopolitical spaces where there are layers of historical violence towards marginalized people.

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Title: Subtitle: Narratives of Gente Decente: Spanish Literacy in the Texas Escuelitas
Creators: Enrique Degollado
Desiree M Pallais-Downing - The University of Texas at Austin
Rosalyn Harvey-Torres - Georgia State University
Randy C Bell
Resource Type: Conference proceeding
Publication Details: Proceedings of the 2022 AERA Annual Meeting
DOI: 10.3102/1894229
Publisher: AERA
Language: English
Date published: 01/01/2022
Academic Unit: Teaching and Learning
Record Identifier: 9984528105102771

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