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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Mestiza"”.
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Latinas Negotiating Borders in Formal Education: A Deeper Spectrum Understanding of the Mestiza
This micro-ethnography study was designed to identify and analyze the generational differences among Latinas within one family––my family––to understand the influence of formal education systems on our cultural affiliation and ethnic identity. The study design included data collection through …
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Narratives of Resistance: Undergraduate Chicanas Navigating the World with Critical Literacy and a Mestiza Praxis
… Empowerment and Othering (3) Connections between Mestiza Consciousness and Critical Literacy and (4) Dreaming. The findings are embedded within these themes in that undergraduate Chicanas in the study developed a Mestiza consciousness as they confronted their positioning within their families and …
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Performing Culture, Performing Me: Exploring Textual Power through Rehearsal and Performance
… feminist Gloria Anzaldúa's notion of a new mestiza consciousness, in which the marginalized ethnic American woman transcends her Otherness, breaks down the borders between her different identities, and creates a Thirdspace. Through the rehearsal and performance process, three ethnic American …
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Illustrations of Nepantleras: Bridge Making Potential in Ana Castillo's So Far From God and The Guardians
… of identity construction—the development of mestiza consciousness—as the means through which Mexican American females may thwart the agents of oppressive patriarchal authority in their lives. While this highly theoretical and politicized literature has contributed greatly to discussions of …
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<em>Pláticas, Reflexiones, y Resistencia</em>: Exploring How First-Generation Latino Males Leverage Community Cultural Wealth in Education-Based Doctoral Programs
… Epistemology (CFE), this research employs a Mestiza Methodology to center participants’ lived experiences during their doctoral program. Findings revealed how participants utilized CCW’s cultural capital to make meaning of their experiences and situate their lived experiences in the broader …
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25 años de boom: la agenda gastronómica en la sección ´Luces´ del diario ´El Comercio´
… el reconocimiento de nuestra gran cocina mestiza, el crecimiento del sector gastronómico, y el acercamiento a los productos de un país biodiverso. A ese despertar gastronómico le llamamos boom. El presente informe de suficiencia recorre el devenir informativo en torno al boom gastronómico …
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Can You See Me? Re-Centering Biracial Voices Through Chicana Intervention in Children's Literature
… She traced her conception and shifts of new mestiza and <em>nepantla</em> through her body of work that culminated in the posthumous publication of <em>Light in the Dark/Luz en lo</em> <em>Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality</em>. With the concept of <em>nepantla</em> being …
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Female subjectivity and agency in popular Mexican corridos (Ballads): an examiniation of images and representations of soldaderas (female soldiers) in the Mexican Revolution 1910-1920
… Hill Collins (1998), I have engaged in critical, Mestiza discourse, which acknowledges the intersection of ethnicity/nationality/race, class, and gender. A discourse has been created through the use of situated knowledge. Published memoirs represents legitimate knowledge; corridos as oral …
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Mentoring Latinas on Doctoral Journeys: Testimonios of Cultural and Gender Identity
… norms and practices. Framed by LatCrit, Mestiza Consciousness, and Mujerista Mentoring, this study sheds light on the experiences of twenty-four Latinas who earned PhDs-with or without mentors during their doctoral journeys. As such, the purpose of this study was to understand the role of …
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Mediating alterity: Transitive Indianness in U.S. non-normative medicine
… and anomaly, as well as hybridity and mestizaje to consider inclusion, commodification, and multiculturalism in the context of U.S. institutional non-normative medicine. It examines the vitality of indigeneity to modes of inquiry in medical humanities and social sciences to interpret …
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Aztec Nation: History, inscription, and indigenista feminism in Chicana literature and political discourse
… is characterized by an ongoing negotiation of mestiza (mixed blood) identity. My investigation begins with analyses of Chicano cultural nationalist literature and political documents from 1964 and ends with a reevaluation of chicana indigenista feminist theories posited as recently as 1994.
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Caracterización clínica de pacientes con trastornos del espectro de neuromielitis óptica en la ciudad de Bogotá - Colombia
… de 53.5 años; P25-P75= 40.5-58.0, todos de raza mestiza). La mediana de edad de inicio fue de 46.5 años (P25-P75=34.2-54.0), la mayoría de los pacientes tuvo manifestaciones clínicas a nivel sensitivo (n=22) y motor (n=20), en seis (n=6) pacientes se identificó una enfermedad autoinmune …
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“This is our home!” Chicana Oral Histories: (Story)telling life, love and identity in the Midwest
… and sexuality. Chapter One situates a “mestiza methodology” and the process of collecting oral histories with three women who are immediately related to me and five who are not. Weaving in women's stories, Chapter Two deals with Gloria Anzaldúa’s conceptualization of …
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Reading the Queer Renaissance
… Frontera and argues that Anzaldua's ""new mestiza"" crosses the border not to escape identity and history, but rather, to challenge the unchecked mobility of oppressive systems of power. Finally, my fourth chapter juxtaposes Tony Kushner's Angels in America and Sarah Schulman's People in …
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La arquitectura sepulcral en la región del Golfo de México
… española y la conformación de una cultura mestiza, iniciaron su consolidación. La presente investigación busca, como objetivo general, esclarecer, en lo posible, el futuro inmediato de la arquitectura sepulcral en la región citada, partiendo de la hipótesis de que en dicho ámbito, el …
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Forgotten Pueblos: La Alianza Federal de Mercedes and the Cultural Politics of Indo-Hispano
… use of Indo-Hispano as a term invoking a past of mestizaje distinct from dominant Chicana/o imaginings of mestizaje. My analysis reveals the complex ties between Indo-Hispano and the political economy of New Mexican land grant tenure and dispossession. This project argues that Indo-Hispano …
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Gente Estudiada: Latina/o students confronting and engaging home/community knowledge within/outside institutions of higher education
… Gloria Anzaldúa (1999) refers to as the “new mestiza consciousness,” a consciousness that “sustains contradictions” and “turns the ambivalence into something else” (p. 101). As participants reflected on the pain and growing contradictions between their families and schooling experiences, they …
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La Pasionaria: The Ethos of a Leader
<p>Abstract</p> <p>La Pasionaria: The Ethos of a Leader was directed by Lois Agnew. This dissertation project inserts Latina activist Dolores Huerta into the feminist rhetorical tradition and traces the complicated ways in which ethos is constructed from multiply oppressed bodies within the context …
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Borderlands Theory: Producing Border Epistemologies with Gloria Anzaldua
This study is dedicated to examine the concept of borders, geographical and otherwise, as instruments that are socially produced. It utilizes Gloria Anzaldua's theoretical framework of Borderlands theory as a set of processes that seek to attain the de-colonization of the inner self. The historical …