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Book SynopsisEntre el Sur y el Norte highlights an important social problem within our education systems, which continue to rely on colonial models for teaching and learning. While scholars have offered critiques of schools as sites of social reproduction and schools as sites of educational inequality for students of color, few have examined the ways in which schools in the United States continue to promote colonial models of teaching and learning. This is particularly important given contemporary discourses of academic success that promote inclusion, diversity, and multiculturalismpractices that are often framed within colonial perspectives of the other. This book examines music as a site of anti-colonial resistance and decolonial praxis in schools.
Grounded on the premise that education is a political act, the authors draw from creative forms and styles that problematize what decolonial scholars call the colonial matrix of power in shaping the Latino subaltern experience. U
