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“The weight we carry in our backpack is not the weight of our books, it’s the weight of our community!”: Latinas negotiating identity and multiple roles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In the United States, out of 100 Latina/o elementary students, only 0.3 will complete a doctorate degree. Latinas/os/x as a fast-growing minority population in the United States continue to be underrepresented in higher education. The underrepresentation
Camargo Gonzalez, Lorena
core  

Dreaming of Borderlands Biliteracies: A Framework for Recognizing the Critical Literacies of Racialized Bilinguals

open access: yesReading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 3, July/September 2025.
Borderlads Biliteracies Abstract ABSTRACT In this theoretical paper, we aim to (re)imagine and (re)conceptualize biliteracy as an anti‐colonial endeavor to destabilize colonial projects that continue to permeate how language and literacy are conceptualized in schools.
Idalia Nuñez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Positioning and Resistance: a Narrative Inquiry of Undocumented Mexican Domestic Workers in New York City

open access: yesNorteamérica
This study explores the life experiences and empowerment of five emblematic undocumented Mexican domestic workers in New York City (NYC). Employing identity as a conceptual framework, we delve into the intricate aspects of the participants' lives ...
Colette Ilse Despagne Broxner   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

“Be Open to All Those Ways That People Can Live Their Lives:” LGBTQ+ Client Recommendations for Adapting Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy

open access: yesJournal of Marital and Family Therapy, Volume 51, Issue 3, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Emotionally focused couple therapy (EFCT) is an empirically supported treatment for relationship distress. Yet, despite EFCT's substantial evidence base, to date, there have been no studies that have integrated LGBTQ+ clients' experiences and therapeutic needs into the EFCT process.
Caitlin Edwards   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dialogical Ecofeminist Perspectives in “The Moths” by Helena María Viramontes and “Woman Hollering Creek” by Sandra Cisneros

open access: yesEx-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, 2019
This article analyzes two well-known short stories by two prominent Chicana writers, namely Helena María Viramontes and Sandra Cisneros, from an ecofeminist perspective.
Imelda Martín-Junquera
doaj   +1 more source

La identidad en juego: un acercamiento autoficcional a 'La casa en Mango Street'

open access: yesKamchatka: Revista de Análisis Cultural, 2020
Este artículo explica la construcción autoficcional de La casa en Mango Street, obra de la chicana Sandra Cisneros. Parte de la base teórica que considera la autoficción como un género no subordinado a otros, siguiendo la posición de Vera Toro, y elabora
Laura Montes Romera
doaj   +1 more source

Lesbianismo y literatura chicana: la construcción de una identidad

open access: yesAnuario de Estudios Americanos, 2010
El artículo estudia la construcción de una identidad lésbica específica en la literatura de autoras chicanas, analizando sus raíces feministas, su empleo de diversas formas literarias, el papel de la teoría y la importancia del cuerpo, así como la ...
María Ángeles Toda Iglesia
doaj   +1 more source

Translating Chicana Rap: Snow Tha Product

open access: yesTranscUlturAl, 2017
This project examines rap lyrics, interviews, and music videos by Chicana artist Snow Tha Product to show how rap has been culturally translated, performed, and appropriated by females in order to “flip the script,” or subvert the dichotomous model of ...
Adriana Onita
doaj   +1 more source

Waging War on Nature: Ecospaces, Ethnoecologies and Chicana/o Writings

open access: yesEx-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, 2018
Since the rise of El Movimiento in the 1960s, Chicanas/os have negotiated space (urban, rural and the wilderness) as central to la raza’s struggles for legitimate citizenship in the U.S. Chicana/o ecowritings reach beyond attempts at self-definition, and
Sofia Emmanouilidou
doaj   +1 more source

“A Detour in Longing”: Gender, Sexuality and Lesbian Desire in Carla Trujillo’s What Night Brings and Emma Pérez’s Gulf Dreams

open access: yesRevista Estudos Feministas, 2018
Questions of gender and sexuality have oftentimes been portrayed as taboo in traditionalist conservative societies. Gloria Anzaldúa claims in Borderlands/La Frontera (1999) that “she [the lesbian of color] goes against two moral prohibitions: sexuality ...
Nathália Araújo Duarte Gouvêa
doaj  

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