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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Chicanas"”.
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Paraíso, caida y regeneración en tres novelas chicanas
Paraíso, Caída y Regeneración en tres novelas chicanas is a detailed literary analysis of three well-known chicano novels: Pocho, Bless Me, Ultima and Peregrinos de Aztlán. The approach is the utilization of the "paradise-fall-regeneration" pattern as a means to study the three stages of the …
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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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Narratives of Resistance: Undergraduate Chicanas Navigating the World with Critical Literacy and a Mestiza Praxis
… study explores the questions, “How do Chicanas in undergraduate programs develop criticality to take action against systems of oppression, and how do they make sense of their social positioning, and what leads them to activism?” This narrative study utilized the theoretical frameworks …
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Illustrations of Nepantleras: Bridge Making Potential in Ana Castillo's So Far From God and The Guardians
… Some consider the relationship between feminist Chicanas and their more traditional families and communities to be irreconcilable. Using the theories of Gloria Anzaldúa, I argue that the novels <em>So Far from God </em>and <em>The Guardians</em> by Ana Castillo address these concerns regarding …
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The invisible color line and the forgotten gender : gender-race earnings inequality between European-American women and Chicanas/Latinas, 1980 and 1990
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1994.
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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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Escaping the Chicano Patriarchy: Chicana and Queer Chican@ Identity Struggles in the Chican@ Novel and in America
… into the North American canon, works by Chicanas and queer Chican@s remain underrepresented. Meanwhile, Chicanas and queer Chican@s themselves still face racial, gender-based, and sexual oppression from dominant, hegemonic American social forces and from some heterosexist male members of …
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"""La escuela es para estudiar"": Representations of Chicana schooling experiences in young adult literature"
… written by Chicana authors and explored how Chicanas grappled with their identity formation and current realities within their schooling experiences as depicted in selected texts. Guided by Chicana feminist perspectives, this study engaged in a critical content analysis of four young adult …
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Sandra Cisneros as Chicana Storyteller: Fictional Family (Hi)Stories in Caramelo
… 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 community. Both elements have contributed to the cultural silencing of Chicanas …
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“This is our home!” Chicana Oral Histories: (Story)telling life, love and identity in the Midwest
… of identity through these Midwestern Chicanas' stories of growing up in the Midwest (in the 60s and 70s) and their lives as women – while paying particular attention to the intersectional categories of gender, race, class and sexuality. Chapter One situates a “mestiza …
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Chicana Sartoriality: Self-Fashioning Towards Decolonial Futures
… history of sartorial, affective practices as Chicanas deploy fashion and fashion accessories to strategically counter and/or comply with multiple colonialities. I use the term “self-fashioning” to highlight an active process in which Chicanas co-construct identities, communities, and politics …
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Retextualized transculturations: The emergence of La Malinche as figure in Chicana literature
… the hegemonic Anglo-American culture. For some Chicanas, subverting male-prescribed cultural artefacts and recreating their myths constituted a critical step in an on-going process of self-exploration and affirmation. In part inspired by the writings of Mexican author Rosario Castellanos, but …
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Chicana /O Murals of California: Indigenist Aesthetics and the Politics of Space, 1970--2000
… in particular. Unlike in Mexico, however, for Chicanas/os, Indigenism was not an institution supported and endorsed officially, but rather a discourse occurring at the margins of U.S. dominant culture. Chicanana/o murals, for the most part, did not grace the walls of major public and government …
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Chicana Power and Pedagogy
… in education, the research contextualizes Chicanas within a wider historical context by using a materialist theory of consciousness, culture and politics. Critical narrative interviews are used to document the pedagogical power of non-alienated social formations in the context of movement …
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First Year College Experiences of California’s Central Valley Latina/o/x Students
… experiences and a summer youth conference, Chicanas/os LEAD. Through conducting 21 semi-structured interviews, data were analyzed using zoom platform to explore their education experiences. This study found that students cultivated a college-going mindset in high school, engaging in …
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De Mexicana Tradicional a Mexicana Con-Tradición: Gloria Anzaldúa, Carmen Tafolla y Pat Mora
… de la mujer mexicana y de la revolución de las chicanas que se oponían a ciertos deberes y valores tradicionales de la generación de sus madres. La chicana abraza sólo esos aspectos de la tradición idóneos para su realización individual redefiniéndose como mexicana con-tradición. El …
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