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“They Don't Know Anything!”: Latinx Immigrant Students Appropriating the Oppressor's Voice
Author(s) -
Monzó Lilia D.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12146
Subject(s) - oppression , sociology , ethnography , immigration , consciousness , consciousness raising , critical ethnography , race (biology) , gender studies , class (philosophy) , critical consciousness , class consciousness , pedagogy , political science , law , anthropology , epistemology , philosophy , politics
This article discusses internalized oppression among Latinx 1 communities through a revolutionary critical pedagogy. Data from a two‐year ethnography of Latinx immigrant families show that students were developing deficit perspectives toward their parents, claiming that “ they don't know anything, ” based on their positioning as powerless and generationally and culturally out of touch. The article discusses that within‐group conflicts support the interests of a transnational capitalist class by severing opportunities for class [and race] consciousness.