Knowing Your Latinx Students: Making Space for
Students' Intersectional Identities & Ventajas

This is a module designed to provide you with an understanding of the diversity within Latinidad. In order to be able to be responsive to our Latinx students, we need to know their many identities and how they self-identity. Conocimiento 5 creates space for you to consider how the building of a collective Latinidad identity was necessary in order to show our importance and relevance as a group, as well as shared histories of oppression and marginalization in North America. At the same time we’ll contest the idea that there exists a singular Latinx experience due to the vast differences in Latinx people's relationship to settler colonialism, U.S. citizenship, and colorism, as well as the ways people identify with a wide variety of languages, racial identities, socio-economic status and immigration stories.