This case presents how a family-school liaison, Claudia Vasquez, attempts to cultivate deeper relationships between families and a bilingual elementary program. Two challenges that Claudia faces are the multiple roles and responsibilities placed upon her, as well as the lack of support from her school community toward engaging multiply-minoritized families. Viewed through the lens of racialized scripts, these challenges are manifestations of long-standing structures of institution, thought, and relationality that aim to uphold White supremacy.
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