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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Chicanx"”.
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Aztlán Potentialities: Queer Male Chicanx Affect and Temporalities
… 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 the potentialities of queer male …
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From Archives to Legacies: Chicanx and Latinx AIDS Activism and Consciousness
<p>Latinx and Chicanx literary, visual, and cultural productions addressing AIDS demonstrate strategies of AIDS consciousness and activism that are distinctly different from the confrontational and politically symbolic actions of largely white male groups like ACT UP, and, as such, they are often …
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Desire Lines: Chicanx Artists' Engagement With Environmental Justice In The Borderlands
This thesis uses the artworks of five Chicanx artists or groups to connect the theories rasquachismo and domesticana to environmental justice in aesthetics and sensibility. In terms of aesthetics, this is largely seen in the accumulation and exuberant display of saved or recycled objects. In terms …
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A Humanizing Pedagogy and Curriculum: Lessons from Chicanx/Latinx Student Testimonios in A High School Ethnic Studies Classroom
<p>In this dissertation, I draw on the experiential knowledge of students in a high school ethnic studies classroom at Eastside High School in Los Angeles to distill concrete lessons for educators to bring humanizing teaching approaches the classroom, teacher-student relationships, and their …
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Affirming Indigeneity in Public Spaces: Indigenous Mexican Testimonios About Higher Education
… consciousness-raising space, (c) tensions within Chicanx Studies and Chicanx-based campus organizations, and (d) the urgency for public Indigeneity on and off campus. Findings revealed how participants publicly affirmed their Indigenous identities during college, particularly when exposed to …
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(De/Re)Constructing ChicanX/a/o Cinema: Liminality, Cultural Hyphenation, and Psychic Borderlands in <em>Real Women Have Curves</em> and <em>Mosquita y Mari</em>
<p>When discussing ChicanX/a/o cinema, as situated in the United States, its relationship to “American” cinema is one of decoloniality that interrogates the contradictions of a diverse yet homogenous national identity. The formation of cultural identity in conjunction with national identity is …
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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
… by racial animus toward Mexican Americans-Chicanx, thus violating their equal protection rights protected by the U.S. Constitution. Through a content analysis of these two data sets (Krippendorff, 2004; Schreier; 2014; Smith, 2000), in direct alignment with the research questions of this …
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Living in Excess: Narrating Violence and Presence in Native American and Chicana Literature
… 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 representations of the body and its violent absenting, their …
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Vanishing
… with the familiar, this collection dives into Chicanx lives where characters grapple with memory, loss, patriarchal thinking, trauma, love, belonging, heartbreak, self-worth and other wound makers in order to move past survival and into a world where they can thrive.
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Learning Through Lowriding: Knowledge in the Garage
… of knowledge production, to frame lowriding in Chicanx San Diego communities as an embodied tension where subversive, resourceful ways of knowing emerge. Utilizing pláticas as a decolonial methodology, alongside photo documentation, this research asks: (1) How do six San Diego-based Chicanx …
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Visually Re-membering the Eastside: Trajectories of Belonging and Displacement in Austin
Historically the home to predominantly Black and Chicanx communities, the Eastside of Austin, Texas is being confronted with the distinct pressures of the city’s rapid growth. Residents of the Eastside are experiencing significant losses of the physical spaces in the communities of the Eastside, …
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Border Biomes: Coexistence and Interference on American Migration Trails
… how 21st -century Mexican, Mexican American, and Chicanx literature and art depict dynamic, unstable geographies that defy common notions of fixed, inanimate borders and become sites of encounters where ontological limits are questioned. Proposing the concept of border biomes, this project thinks …
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Chicana Sartoriality: Self-Fashioning Towards Decolonial Futures
… the question 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 …
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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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Sonora’s Sacred Soundscapes --Sones Sagrados Sonorenses—
<p>This work begins with a research interest in the folklore of the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. The unexpected discovery of an archive at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage initiates an act of return: the repatriation of sound recordings made in 1944 in Desemboque, Sonora, by …
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Pláticas Liberadoras: Testimonios of Chicana/o Elders en la Comunidad de San Diego
<p>There is robust scholarship inquiring about many facets of critical consciousness (CC), most of which is centered around working with teens, youth, and educators. This study explored development of CC through testimonios of the lived experiences of eight Chicana/o elders in San Diego County. All …