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Curating Structural Sense of Belonging Among Minoritized Students: A Case Study of the Performing Arts

New Directions for Higher Education, Volume 2026, Issue 214, Page 61-68, Summer 2026.
ABSTRACT Understanding collegiate norms and practices that promote sense of belonging among students who have traditionally been raced, gendered, stigmatized, and excluded as the ‘other’ in predominantly white institutions (PWI) is of paramount importance today as these efforts face increasingly antagonistic legislation, state policies, and ...
Nkenji K. Clarke, Rola Tarek Mohamed, Alicia C. Dowd, Sharmistha Barat   +3 more
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Parallel discourses on Chicana sexuality: reading expository and fictional voices of contemporary Chicana writers: a cultural critique [PDF]

, 2002
This thesis develops a reading of Chicana sexuality based on expository and fictional literary voices, which are the two main modes of expression that Chicanas have thus far employed in developing a discourse on sexuality. Expository prose is utilized to
Esparza, Araceli
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Claims by Anglo American feminists and Chicanas/os for alternative space: The LA art scene in the political 1970s

American Studies in Scandinavia, 2016
: Originating in the context of the Civil Rights Movements and political activities addressing issues of race, gender and sexuality, the Women’s Liberation movement and the Chicano Movement became departures for two significant counter art movements in ...
Eva Zetterman
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Latina identity and military enlistment: The intersection of race, ethnicity, and gender

Feminist Anthropology, Volume 7, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Despite the increase in literature on women veterans and women in the military, little is known about Latina experiences during and after military service, particularly from the Gulf War and Post‐9/11 eras. This qualitative study utilizes critical feminist theory to explore the complex intersections of cultural, gendered, and sexual identities
Karla Hernandez‐Swift
wiley   +1 more source

Expressions of Dismemberment in Chicana/o Literature [PDF]

, 2016
Dismemberment is featured as a central theme in Chicana/o literature—the corporeal and psychological manifestations of social, political, and economic displacement or disfranchisement as an act of marginalization of Chicanas/os in the United States ...
Mancera, Cristina Natalí
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Making menudo, feeding the soul: towards a fat Chicana epistemology [PDF]

, 2013
People today have inherited historically rigid guidelines of what constitutes beauty and bodily acceptance, with multiple institutions normalizing a particular body type while simultaneously making the "other" out of those bodies that do not adhere to ...
Hernandez, Monica E
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“Each and Every One of Us:” A Comparative Case Study of Coalitional Literacy Praxis in Community Organizing and School Spaces

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 2, April/May/June 2026.
How is solidarity built through literacy practice in two different educational spaces (one community‐organizing based and one classroom‐based) in a large, ethnically and racially diverse, urban context? Case #1: Intergenerational Immigrant Rights Community Workshop By & For Latine/x Immigrants Focused On Deportation Priorities Case #2: Sixth Grade ...
Alicia Rusoja, Kathleen Riley
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From Factories to Fields: Chicana Working Class Identity, Resistance and Struggle [PDF]

, 1994
No abstract available.Presenter: "From Factories to Fields: Chicana Working Class Identity, Resistance and Struggle" Images/Visions Chicana Literary and Artistic Expressions Conference, November 29, 1994, University of California, Irvine, Irvine ...
José M. Alamillo
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‘Work locally but think globally’: The Alliance Against Women's Oppression and transnational multiracial grassroots activism in the 1980s

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 390-405, March 2026.
Abstract This article examines the transnational history of the Alliance Against Women's Oppression (AAWO), a multiracial and Marxist US women's organisation founded in California in 1979. By focusing on the political connection between the AAWO, the so‐called ‘Third World’ and other international organisations such as the Women International ...
Bruno Walter Renato Toscano
wiley   +1 more source

"Don't point the deficit finger at me foo!!!": Chicana/o school disengagement and re-engagement in West Los Angeles [PDF]

, 2010
In depth individual and group interviews of 8 Mexican American (Chicana/o) dropouts/pushouts involved in a progressive grassroots youth organization in Los Angeles were used to investigate Chicana/o school disengagement and re-engagement.
Ramirez, Johnny C.
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