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A Critical Race Feminist Praxis By Delgado-Bernal And Aleman

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In “Transforming Educational Pathways for Chicana/o Students: A Critical Race Feminist Praxis”, Delgado-Bernal and Aleman confronts institutional racism through an elementary school and college partnership named Aldente. The program’s goals are to prepare students and their families to college by integrating higher education early on and establishing college going culture. The authors discuss the struggles they had to go through to implement this program in a local elementary school such common stereotypes about chicana/o’s in education. In the introduction of this book, the authors mention how one of their partners refused to acknowledge issues such as immigration because she didn’t want to make school political. I understand why some would say that school shouldn’t be political because it would be …show more content…

Many these department and boards are ran by politicians who care about satifitying the needs of their politic party and not about the students. This affects students are many crucial programs for a students development such as free/reduced lunches are cut. I think that Adelente is a solution to students who struggle under this political version of education as they will guided into higher education instead of being oppressed by the system. Cultivating this college-going culture through mentorship allows students to disrupt the miseducation of chicanas/chicanos. I think that this programs allows students to think aspire and strive to defeat the system that oppresses them. As a first generation college student, I didn’t have mentors to help guide me. However, I did participate in mentorship program where I mentor a younger elementary student which was really inspiring for me. By helping students develop their dreams and aspirations I began to realize what I strive for which was going to UC Davis and doing what I love to

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