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Tara J. Yosso, Ph.D. Updated 11-13-08
Educator & Author

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Tara J. Yosso is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She earned her Ph.D. degree in Education from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Her research and teaching draw on the frameworks of critical race and LatCrit theory, critical media literacy, and sociology of education to examine how race, gender, class, language, phenotype, accent, and immigrant status shape access to educational equity.

Dr. Yosso’s book "Critical Race Counterstories Along the Chicana/Chicano Educational Pipeline" analyzes Chicana/o experiences navigating through structures, practices, and discourses of racism from elementary through graduate school.
Dr. Yosso's 1st book is now in its fourth printing and was selected for the American Educational Studies Association 2008 Critics' Choice Book Award!! see downloadable Journal reviews from Anthropology and Education Quarterly and Journal of Latinos and Education...

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