ABSTRACT
In this chapter, five Latina educators who identify as children of migrants and immigrants living in urban centers in the United States, where people of Color are the numeric majority—employ racial capitalism as a theoretical lens for analyzing the tenuous inclusion of young children who are Black, Indigenous, and of Color.
Seeking to elucidate and better understand how such restrictive notions of inclusion and belonging, informed by racial capitalism, in effect serves to marginalize, dehumanize, and ultimately harm, this chapter adopts two theoretical tools informed by the sociology of race: exclusion by inclusion and obfuscation via privatization. These tools help to understand how race matters in conceptualizations of inclusion as well as in who is ascribed belonging and who is not.
