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Title: A Toiling Movement-Building Paradigm That Refuses to "Let the Numbers Speak for Themselves"
Citation Type: Book, Section
Publication Year: 2021
ISBN: 1351032208, 9781351032209
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DOI: 10.4324/9781351032223
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Abstract: This phrase has taken on new meaning since we wrote it to start a chapter in the original Handbook. Today, we write not only in the typical isolation of the academy but under mandated quarantine, as each day, the United States reports the highest number of COVID-19 infections yet. Every day, we read about another young Black person targeted for extermination, taken by the same White settler state that built my own institution on unceded Tongva land and which is actively putting migrating Indigenous people and their descendants in cages. Thousands marched on behalf of Sandra Bland, George Floyd, Eduardo Bermudez-- and endless number of murders in this ongoing coloniality. One of us is currently separated from family and living in Mexico, holed up from the virus that has shifted timespace for many, some temporarily, like myself living a transnational life similar to the one in which I was raised, others with greater permanence, having been forcibly erased through state violence by anti-Black law enforcement, a whitestream health care system that devalues vulnerable lives, or through an extension of the colonial anti-Indigenous immigration enforcement system that deported my brother and cousin. These racist patterns become numbers that materially expose the killer White supremacists and patriarchal coloniality that we live, as well as some possibilities for reparations, reappearances, recovery, and reinventing.
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Authors: Covarrubias, Alejandro; Lara, Argelia; Nava, Pedro; Burciaga, Rebeca
Editors: Lynn, Marvin; Dixson, Adrienne D.
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Volume Title: Handbook of Critical Race Theory in Education
Publisher: Routledge
Publisher Location: Oxfordshire
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Edition: 2
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Population Data Science, Race and Ethnicity
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