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Showing 1 to 20 of 114 for “"Chicana"”.
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Chicana Power and Pedagogy
… of social movement participation in the lives of Chicana youth who participated in the March 2000 student mobilization against Proposition 21 in Los Angeles, California. In keeping with radical traditions in education, the research contextualizes Chicanas within a wider historical context by using …
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Chicana Sartoriality: Self-Fashioning Towards Decolonial Futures
… of identifiers (is it Chicane, Chicanx, Chicano, Chicana, Chican@, or Xicanx/e/a/o/@?), how can we understand who and what is Chicanidad? How do we ethically, responsibly account for and tend to its past and legacy—our pasts and our legacies? And what does the future hold for Chicane communities …
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Framing Identity: Repudiating the Ideal in Chicana Literature
… and cultural archetypes (Gonzalez 111-273). Chicanas, having a history of revolutionary action, recognized the contradictions of a movement that was fighting for civil rights and true justice, yet subordinated women. The representations of women in Chicana literature in the decades following …
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Articulando Chicana/Latina's critical narratives on their graduate experiences
This study examines the experiences of seven Chicana/Latina doctoral students and one queer Chicana/Chicano at a large, predominantly White public research university in the Midwest, using qualitative and interpretive research methods. To achieve this, I gathered eight semi-structured narratives …
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Leadership for Social Change: Learning from Latina/Chicana Activist Educators
… activism as leadership among Latinas/Chicanas. The contemporary theories of scholars including James MacGregor Burns (1978) and Joseph C. Rost (1993) suggest there may be shared qualities between specific concepts of leadership and the everyday working practices of Latina/Chicana …
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¡Adelante Mujer!: Testimonios of Chicana and Latina High School Principals
… it limits advancement opportunities for aspiring Chicana and Latina leaders despite research confirming their effectiveness in spearheading academic improvements. While past scholarship has broadly explored facilitators and barriers for women educational leaders, few studies specifically document …
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Chicana politics: Maria Cardenas and La Raza Unida Party, 1935-1993
Chicana Politics is centered on the life of María Cárdenas, as a way to reveal a complex history of Chicanas in electoral politics and their relationship with the larger feminist movement in Texas. By examining the life of María Cárdenas, I make two arguments. First, even though María Cárdenas …
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Searching for Mother: Chicana Writers Revise and Renew Malinche and Guadalupe
Chicana writers currently assume the role of border culturalists in order to present alternative views of female figures perpetuated by histories, chronicles, myths, and other narrations motivated by imperial ideology and patriarchy. Two such female figures in Mexican-American culture are La Virgen …
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Sandra Cisneros as Chicana Storyteller: Fictional Family (Hi)Stories in Caramelo
… Sandra Cisneros makes historical claims from a Chicana perspective by telling fictional family stories in Caramelo. Not only have Chicanas traditionally been marginalized ethnically by the Anglo mainstream, they have also suffered disenfranchisement as women in their own male-dominated cultural …
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Building a Chicana rhetoric for rhetoric and composition : methodology, practice, and performance
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Department of Rhetoric and Writing, 2010
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Retextualized transculturations: The emergence of La Malinche as figure in Chicana literature
… retextualizations of the Malinche figure in Chicana literature from 1973-1991. As Chicana feminists began to challenge their traditional, culturally sanctioned gender roles and to increase their political participation in the Chicano movement of the 1960s and 70s, they faced gender oppression …
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Pláticas Liberadoras: Testimonios of Chicana/o Elders en la Comunidad de San Diego
… testimonios of the lived experiences of eight Chicana/o elders in San Diego County. All eight of these elders participated in the Chicana/o movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s and carried these experiences with them into the present moment. Development of CC, the contextualized …
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Living in Excess: Narrating Violence and Presence in Native American and Chicana Literature
My dissertation outlines the ways in which a comparative study of Native American, First Nations, and Chicanx narratives of erasure and presence reveals remarkable and significant shared characteristics. This extensive comparison demonstrates these narratives’ similar modes of theorizing …
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Aztec Nation: History, inscription, and indigenista feminism in Chicana literature and political discourse
… and sexuality in contemporary Chicano and Chicana literature and political discourse. In my analysis of Chicano and Chicana political manifestos, graphic art, poetry, essays, and novels, I trace various Chicano cultural nationalist expressions of indigenista ideology throughout el …
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Marginalized Multiplicities: The Journeys of Chicana/Latina Lesbian and Bisexual High School Students
… and coalition building) of LatCrit and Queered Chicana Theory to go beyond a traditionally pathological approach toward queers in general to analyze institutional dynamics that both impede and contribute to the prosperity of these young women in their education and societal dimensions (e.g., …
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Building creative digital resistance: Latinas engaging in Chicana practices on social media sites
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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Phantoms of the Barrio: Chicana/o urban spatial politics and muralism, 1965-1985
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Siete Lenguas: The Rhetorical History of Dolores Huerta and the Rise of Chicana Rhetoric
… is first an historical trajectory of Chicana Rhetoric in the American polis and then a perspectival analysis of three key texts from Chicana labor rights activist and vice president of the United Farm Workers Union Dolores Huerta. The trajectory establishes an efficacious legacy of …
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