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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"mestiza consciousness"”.
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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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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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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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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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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 …