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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Chicana/o Studies"”.
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Chicano Studies Courses: Latina/o Student Engagement in Community Colleges
… aspirations. This qualitative study examines how Chicana/o Studies courses foster student engagement, identity development, belonging, and future orientation within the community college context. Guided by Critical Race Theory (CRT) and the concept of racial microaffirmations, the study …
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Choreographing borderlands : Chicanas/os, dance, and the performance of identities
“Choreographing Borderlands: Chicanas/os, Dance, and the Performance of Identities” examines the unexplored work of barrio-based dancemakers who choreograph and rehearse the diverse political, cultural and emotional contours of Chicana/o life, thought, and borderlands worldviews. As creative …
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Las Tejanas in nineteenth-century Texas: (En)gendering race, empire, and nation in the borderlands, 1750-1850
… Working at the intersection of Borderlands Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Latin American, and U.S. History, I show how Tejanas deployed degrees of racial and class privilege to challenge and reinforce interlocking systems of oppression grounded on anti-Blackness and through the literal and …
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El sabor del amor y del dolor: violence, affect and the (trans)body in the Chican@ historical imaginary
… absence and presence of this population in the Chicana/o Historical imaginary. I examine how the transgender and gender non-conforming Chican@ body complicates categories of gender, sex and sexuality in the fields of Queer, Transgender and Chicana/o Studies. Through a theoretical lens informed …
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"They Tried to Bury Us, But They Didn't Know We Were Seeds." "Trataron de Enterrarnos, Pero No Sabían Que Éramos Semillas" - The Mexican American/Raza Studies Political and Legal Struggle: A Content Analysis
… challenge to Arizona’s anti-Mexican American Studies law A.R.S. §15-112, and the subsequent ruling in the Memorandum of Decision (Tashima, 2017) which found the law was enacted and enforced motivated by racial animus toward Mexican Americans-Chicanx, thus violating their equal protection …
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The Vietnam War and its Detrimental Effects on Chicanos
<p>The purpose of this essay is to discuss the possibility that the Vietnam War could have been a stepping stone in the socio-economic ladder for Mexican-Americans; and why many Chicanos did indeed see the war as an opportunity for social mobility. In addition, I will discuss how in reality the war …
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<i>La resolana</i>: Chicano Artistic Imaginaries of Place, Race, and Activism in New Mexico and Texas, 1969–1985
<p>This dissertation examines the work of Chicana and Chicano artists who participated in a loosely interrelated network of artist collectives and communities in New Mexico and Texas from the late 1960s to early 1980s. Animated by the exigencies of the Chicano civil rights movement, they created …
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Resilience and Struggle: Exploring the Experiences of Undocumented College Students Through Chicana Feminist Theory and Dialogical Performance
… conducted from dialogical performance and Chicana feminist perspectives. Dialogical performance from the perspective of Dwight Conquergood as a method is bridged with Chicana feminist theories of Gloria Anzaldua, theories of <em>Nepantla</em>, <em>New Tribalism</em>, <em>Spritual …
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"White Slaves of California": Race, Religion, and the Railroad in Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's <i>The Squatter and the Don</i>
<p>In <em>The Squatter and the Don</em> (1885), Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton depicts the decline of the Alamars, a patrician Californio family, in the years after California was annexed by the United States. This thesis explores the different rhetorical maneuvers Ruiz de Burton makes to place the …
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Aztlán Potentialities: Queer Male Chicanx Affect and Temporalities
<p>While there has been much critical attention paid to Aztlán, the mythical/historical Chicanx homeland, there is still work to be done in combatting the entrenched heteronormativity of Aztlán and of chicanidad more broadly. This thesis, born from my own identity as a queer Chicanx male, considers …
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Chicanos in education : an examination of the 1968 east Los Angeles student walkouts!
<p>In 1968 the Los Angeles community witnessed the up rise of thousands of Chicano students when they walked out of their high school on an early morning in March. The purpose of this study was to further understand the 1968 student walkouts as presented by student participants. The study was …
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Cotheorizing Healing With Undergraduate Queer and Trans Latina Survivors of Power-Based Violence
… and identities into healing approaches, yet few studies actually focus on the culturally distinct healing processes of victim-survivors (O’Brien & Macy, 2016; Sinko et al., 2023). Grounded in Jotería theory (Alvarez, 2023) and Latina/Chicana feminist frameworks (Garcia, 1989), this qualitative …
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Still Dreaming of You: Selena's Discourse with and Continuing Impact on American Musical Culture
<p>Selena Quintanilla Perez continues to circulate in popular culture, including MAC cosmetic lines, a Netflix series, and podcasts. As a result, her cultural influence continues to be passed on and shared with future generations. This thesis focuses on three aspects of Selena and Selena y Los …
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Dual Lives Assimilation Literacy
<p>In recent years, the field of literacy studies has not given enough attention to exploring the English literacy journeys of immigrants and in particular, Latin immigrants. Furthermore, there has been little dialogue that has encouraged plans to help fix this issue. </p> <p>We, in the academy, …
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La Cofradía de Artes y Artesanos Hispánicos: 1978 to 1983 Redefining Tradition in the New Mexican Art Market
<p><strong>La Cofradía de Artes y Artesanos Hispánicos: Redefining Tradition in the New Mexican Art Market. May 2019. </strong></p> <p>This master’s thesis explores the 1978 founding, existence, dissolve, and the legacy of the Santa Fe, New Mexican artist exhibition group, La Cofradía de Artes y …
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Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070: A Case Study on State-Sponsored Immigration Policy
<p>This study assesses the origins of Arizona’s state-sponsored immigration policy. It attempts to identify the social dynamics within Arizona that contributed to the overwhelming public support for SB 1070. Since it has been two years after the law was passed, this analysis determines what impact …
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Intergenerational Family Learning Programs: Stories of Latinx, Immigrant Families and Their Journeys to and through Higher Education
<p><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></p> <p>This research presents the stories of three Latinx families who participated in an intergenerational family program. I endeavored to understand their experiences navigating the American system of education and their immigrant stories. Their narratives revealed …
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