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Politics of Anti-Racism Education: In Search of Strategies for Transformative Learning pp 175–189Cite as

Entre el Aquí y el Allá: International Schooling and the Colonized Mind

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In this chapter, I use autoethnography to gaze upon my own educational experiences through an antiracism lens. I attempt to tell the story of my personal decolonization journey, which was prompted through conversations in the course. I look firstly at how the blatantly white and North American curriculum in an international school erased me from my own schooling and learning. Then, how this erasure had the effect of leaving me incapacitated to attend my own country’s post-secondary institutions, which also struggle with the legacy of European colonialism. This moved my journey to Canada and finally to the antiracism classroom, where I began to unfold the layers and pick at the seams of this erasure. In this journey, the discovery of Latina feminist writers has been integral in helping me think through how my particular subject location and how to situate it within a CARE framework for creating a space within which to continue this work.

The original version of this chapter was revised.An erratum to this chapter can be found at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7627-2_16

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Notes

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    The “@” sign has recently been adopted in the Spanish language to signify both genders and avoid the repetitive use of masculine and feminine terms in writing (e.g. ‘Latino and Latina’). In this work, it will be used in this sense, to signify that I am talking about both Latino and Latina students. It also serves to symbolically include Latinas in all of the variations of the term, as they are erased by terms such as ‘Latino community’. Therefore, this re-signing of the noun aims to be more representative of its members.

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    Sometimes I am nothing and no one. But even when I am not, I am (my translation).

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    Respect and education.

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Arráiz Matute, A. (2014). Entre el Aquí y el Allá: International Schooling and the Colonized Mind. In: Dei, G.J.S., McDermott, M. (eds) Politics of Anti-Racism Education: In Search of Strategies for Transformative Learning. Explorations of Educational Purpose, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7627-2_13

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