Feature articles: theory, research, policy and practice
The Role of Latinx Fathers in Their Daughters’ College Success: Shifting Cultural Paradigms?
By Gabriela Diaz de Sabates and Kay Ann Taylor
Testimonios and Liberation Psychology as Praxis: Informing Educators in the Borderlands
By Alejandro Cervantes, Judith Carmona Flores, and Ivelisse Torres Fernandez
Somos la dignidad rebelde: On Mexican indigenous praxis of resistance pedagogy, no longer misappropriated under US “innovative” methods
By Liliana Conlisk Gallegos
“¡Olé!” Locating Capital and Community Cultural Wealth within Multicultural Children’s Literature
By Kristen Pratt, Kelly Puzio, and Ying Hsuan Lee
Beyond the Label: Using a Multilevel Model of Intersectionality to Explore the Educational Experiences of Latino English Learners
By Melissa Cuba, Virginia Massaro, Carolyn Waters, Susan Watson, Anna Cody, and Kurt Stemhagen
Community Cultural Wealth and Immigrant Latino Parents
By Bianca Guzman, Claudia Kouyoumdjian, Jasmine Medrano, and Ireri Bernal
Latino Immigrant Parents and Schools: Learning from their Journeys of Empowerment
By Pablo Jasis
Welcome to Volume 20, Number 1 of the Journal of Latinos and Education. With your support over these past 20 years, our journal has increased its stature and influence to become the premiere research publication that examines the educational conditions of Latina/o communities in and outside of the United States. In this issue, we have chosen seven FEATURE ARTICLES for our readers.
We, however, want to take this moment to let you know about all the positive changes that have transpired over the last several years. Little by little, we have aligned completely with the overall trends in academic journals. First, we switched our submissions process and peer-review management from old snail mail to an online portal. We have been fortunate that albeit we have a low acceptance rate for the JLE, the high volume of online submissions has nevertheless yielded a significant quantity of exceptional articles for publication.
We also began making available the digital online versions of the accepted articles, first, on the webpage, before they appear in hard copy. This has helped readers and authors alike, particularly the early career authors eager to claim their publications for tenure and so forth. As a byproduct, our hard copy readers have dwindled with now the bulk of our large readership downloading and reading the articles online (in digital format).
In consultation with our portfolio managers, we completely agree that the JLE has successfully adapted to the current environment. We appreciate the journey you all have taken with us and all the Latino Education and Advocacy Days (LEAD) Projects over the last 20 years – the changes were necessary and welcome.
The online portal has now allowed for the whole process of managing the peer-review process and the pre-production routines to be streamlined with unprecedented speed and ease, and the scholarly papers and other content are readily accessed online.
The Journal of Latinos and Education is thriving, even considering adding another issue to each volume. Our impact factors and citation rates are on the rise. We remain as relevant as ever, and our academic research and peer-review integrity and scholarly record preservation are far from being at risk, as we found ourselves in this publishing environment where so many subscription-based, online-only, and/or open-access journals have unfortunately vanished or gone dark in recent years.
Lastly, we found this an opportune time to revamp the editorial team and reconstitute the advisory board.
We are thankful to the outgoing Associate Editors for their many years of service; some have served since our inception.
René Antrop-González Metropolitan State University
Margarita Machado-Casas California State University-San Diego
Corinne Martínez California State University-Long Beach
Juan Sánchez Muñoz University of California – Merced
Sofia A. Villenas Cornell University-Ithaca
Ruth Trinidad-Galván († QEPD)
We are also very thankful to the following outgoing members of the editorial Advisory Board for their service during the past years, and we wish them well in their future endeavors.
Lesley Bartlett – Teachers College, Columbia University
Maria Estela Zarate – University of California, Irvine
Dalia Rodriguez – Syracuse University
Cindy Cruz – University of California, Santa Cruz
Angela Arzubiaga – Arizona State University
Tara Brown – Brandeis University
Sylvia Celedón-Pattichis – University of New Mexico
Dolores Calderón – University of Utah
Thandeka K. Chapman – University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Robert Cooper – University of California, Los Angeles
Lucila Ek – University of Texas at San Antonio
Belinda Flores – University of Texas at San Antonio
Nilda Flores-González – University of Illinois at Chicago
Annette López de Méndez – Universidad de Puerto Rico Delia Pompa
Carlos Nevarez – California State University, Sacramento
Heather Oesterreich – New Mexico State University
Diane Torres Velásquez – University of New Mexico
William Vélez – University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Please continue to read ahead and enjoy the full value and complexity of the articles presented by Volume 20, Number 1 of the Journal of Latinos and Education. We want to extend our appreciation to the authors for their manuscript submissions and commend them for their contributions to the field of Latinos and Education. We look forward to supporting your continued research and practices that illuminate the numerous circumstances in which Latinas/os and their families continue to struggle for educational excellence, inclusion, and equity. Your support and this volume affirm the importance of scholarship and creative analysis that attempt to give voice to a community of learners that is silent no longer.
Thank You – muchísimas gracias – Tlazokamate
Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Enrique G. Murillo, Jr., California State University-San Bernardino