• Interwoven into the existentialist philosophical argument of humanity, rebellion, and the interrelationship of autonomy and responsibility as depicted by de Beauvoir and challenged by Fanon is the interrelationship between deficit ideologies of Latine/x youth and combatting deficit ideological frameworks as well as the materialization of violence within K-12 settler colonial institutions that render Latine/x youth as deficit.

    - ángela godoy-fernández

  • Negative alienation is a consequence of this power dynamic and should not be viewed as separate from the power dynamic; rather, it is a production of it.

    - ángela godoy-fernández

  • Fanon’s interdisciplinary critique demonstrates a connection which depicts K-12 institutions as spaces/places materializing the difference between freedom as a fundamental universal and a differential praxis, and further positions child consciousness in sameness with Black consciousness in that it is positioned to navigate a world that has already presupposed its inferiority and, consequently, its needed annihilation.

    - ángela godoy-fernández