Isabel Martinez & Irma Victoria Montelongo 
Crossing Digital Fronteras 
Rehumanizing Latinx Education and Digital Humanities

Crossing Digital Fronteras is about liberatory possibilities and digital technologies in the classroom. The book centers critical Latinx Digital Humanities to illustrate the ways college faculty and Latinx students harness digital tools to engage in ‘messy’ yet essential active learning and knowledge production in Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) and Latinx Studies courses. With increasing Latinx student enrollment and a growing need for the humanities in our complex world, it is essential that HSIs and instructors integrate twenty-first-century tools into their teaching practices to truly ‘serve’ Latinx students and communities. This book definitively inserts Latinx Digital Humanities into broader conversations about best practices at HSIs, on the one hand, and digital humanities and social justice, on the other. Most importantly, it provides practical examples of innovative, rehumanizing digital pedagogies that give students the liberatory learning they deserve.

Table of Content

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments



Introduction: Digital Divides, Borders, and Liberatory Edges: Latinx DH (Digital Humanities)
Finally Comes of Age


Isabel Martínez, Ángel David Nieves, and Cassie Tanks



1. Toward a Rehumanizing Latinx Studies Curriculum


Nicholas Daniel Natividad and Cynthia Wise



2. Digital Pedagogy in a Multicultural Setting: Learning History and Connecting through Technology


Lissette Acosta Corniel



3. Latinx Spaces, Discourses, and Knowledges: Student Voices and the Rehumanization of Latinx Identity in the United States


Isabel Martínez and Irma Victoria Montelongo



4. Translanguaging and Multiple Literacies: Podcasting as a Linguistically and Culturally Sustaining Medium in a Multicultural Teacher Education Course


Jen Stacy, Mildred Ramos, and Adriana Correa



5. US Latinx Digital Humanities: Rehumanizing the Past through Archival Digital Pedagogy


Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Lorena Gauthereau, and Carolina Villarroel



6. The Delis Negrón Digital Archive: A Pedagogical Approach to Latinx Familial and Community Archives


Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla and Annette Michelle Zapata



7. Crossing Pedagogical Front|eras through Collaborative World-Making and Digital Storytelling


Jeanelle D. Horcasitas and Olivia Quintanilla



8. Developing Action Research Projects for Latinx Students in a Predominantly White Institution


Gerardo Mancilla and Donna Vukelich-Selva



Conclusion: Reimagining Digital Pedagogies in Hispanic-Serving Institutions and Beyond


Isabel Martínez and Irma Victoria Montelongo



Contributors

Index

About the author

Isabel Martínez is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology and Cultures, Societies and Global Studies and Director of Latinx, Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Northeastern University. She is the author of
Becoming Transnational Youth Workers: Independent Mexican Teenage Migrants and Pathways of Survival and Social Mobility.
Irma Victoria Montelongo is Associate Professor of Instruction and Director of the Chicano Studies Program at The University of Texas at El Paso.
Nicholas Daniel Natividad is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at New Mexico State University.
Ángel David Nieves was Dean’s Professor of Public and Digital Humanities and Director of the Humanities Center at Northeastern University. He authored
An Architecture of Education: African American Women Design the New South.