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NACCS TEJAS FOCO 2023
9:00-10:15 AM BREAKOUT SESSIONS VI
6.1 PANEL | BSABH 2.102
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CONSTRUCTING IDENTITY, EMBODYING RESILIENCE AND CLAIMING SUCCESS: LATINX STORIES OF CHALLENGE AND SURVIVAL
Chair: Beatriz Mendez Newman, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Shuttling between Languages: Empowering Latinx Students through Poetry
Daniella Hernández, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Learning English from the Student’s Seat to the Teacher’s Desk
Kimberly Rosas, BISD/University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Cada Cabeza es Un Mundo: Intersections of Whiteness and Biculturalism in a Story of Survival
Beatrice Mendez Newman, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
6.2 PANEL | BSABH 2.106 CONTESTING
The Educational System
Moderator: Gabi Ortiz Ramírez, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
El Coyote y El Zorro Niegan al Lobo: Applying QuantCrit to Assessment and Evaluation Through the Building of Community and Privileging Culture over the Data for a Federal Grant
Ernesto Fidel Ramírez, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
UndocuScholars at UTRGV: Improving Institutional Support for Undocumented Students in the Borderlands
Kip Austin Hinton, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Mexican American Migrant Farmworkers, Resiliency & Higher Education: Testimonios from a Darkskinned Girl
Angelica González, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Transformative & Decolonial Pedagogies in the Social Sciences: Teaching REHS 3331 (Psychology of Disability) from a New Perspective
Gabi Ortiz Ramírez & Fidencio Mercado, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
6.3 PANEL | BSABH 2.204 RECLAIMING LEGACIES OF TEJANO SUBJUGATION & RESISTANCE
Chair: Sonia Hernández, Texas A&M University
Settler Colonialism as Defined by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in Texas
Valeria Torres, Texas A&M University
Engelman Gardens: Land Investment, Agriculture and Labor Exploitation in the Magic Valley of South Texas
Jillian Glantz, Texas A&M University
The Tejano Response to the White Ethnostate of Early Twentieth Century America
Leslie Torres, Texas A&M University
