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Gloria Anzaldúa’s Mexican Genealogy: From Pelados and Pachucos to New Mestizas [PDF]

Genealogy, 2020
This essay examines Gloria Anzaldúa’s critical appropriation of two Mexican philosophers in the writing of Borderlands/La Frontera: Samuel Ramos and Octavio Paz.
Mariana Alessandri, Alexander Stehn
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Why Learn from Chicanas? The Relevance of U.S. Third World Chicana Thinkers in Polish Feminist Research [PDF]

Slovo a Smysl, 2022
American feminist theories have long energised Polish scholarly work, and many Polish academics have drawn on the research of renowned American writers such as Judith Butler.
Aleksandra Hołubowicz
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Misrepresented Insecurities: An Annotated Interview about Displacement and Resistance of Central America’s “Eternos Indocumentados”

Latin American Law Review, 2021
Central Americans are widely misrepresented in United States mainstream media as one-dimensional peoples always associated with insecurities. In a powerful counter-representation, Director Jennifer A.
Leisy J. Abrego, Jennifer A. Cárcamo
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The Interlocking Processes Constraining the Struggle for Sanctuary in the Trump Era: The Case of La Puente, CA

Social Sciences, 2021
By 10 January 2017, activists in the predominately Latina/o working class city of La Puente, California had lobbied the council to declare the city a sanctuary supporting immigrants, people of color, Muslims, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities ...
Gilda L. Ochoa
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Testimonio Witnessing of Gender-Based Violence in Belinda Acosta’s Sisters, Strangers, and Starting Over

International Journal of Young Adult Literature, 2022
This article examines Belinda Acosta’s Sisters, Strangers, and Starting Over (2010) through the lens of testimonio narrative methodology, particularly as employed by US Latina feminist writers.
Laura Marie López
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Reproductive Racism in Danielle Evans’s “Harvest:” Black, Chicana, and White Motherhoods in the Context of Reproductive Rights Discourses

Gender Studies, 2021
The paper explores the short story “Harvest” (2010) by African American writer Danielle Evans and traces the figurations of the racialized aspects of gender in “Harvest” within the theoretical frameworks of Black and Chicana feminisms, motherhood studies,
Lénárt-Muszka Zsuzsanna
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Textual Representations of Chicana Identity in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo or Puro Cuento

Odisea, 2017
Resumen: El principal objetivo de este estudio es el de analizar la representación textual de los distintos rasgos distintivos presentes en la producción literaria Chicana en Caramelo or Puro Cuento de Sandra Cisneros, publicada en 2002.
María Alonso Alonso
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Examining Recruitment Practices for Servingness during COVID-19: Perspectives from Institutional Agents at an Emerging Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI)

Education Sciences, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020 as high school seniors were receiving their college admission notifications for fall. Many postsecondary institutions shifted outreach efforts to online formats.
Natalia Deeb-Sossa, Marcela G. Cuellar, Mayra Nuñez Martinez, Yadira Sanchez Nava, Blas G. Guerrero   +4 more
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Chicanas: sujetos en traducción

Anuario de Letras Modernas, 2012
La narrativa de las escritoras chicanas como Sandra Cisneros puede considerarse posmoderna al mismo tiempo que feminista en la medida en que se trata de una “revisión” y desconstrucción de las representaciones culturales de las mujeres chicanas y ...
Marina Fe
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Tři proti dualismu: Postkoloniální re/interpretace hybridních postav chicanské femininity [PDF]

Gender a Výzkum, 2017
Employing hybridity as a tool of postcolonial critique, and gender as an analytical category, the article discusses the hybrid characteristics of three paradigmatic representations of Chicana femininity, i.e.
Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová
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