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: Issues of migration, frontiers and identity are recurrent in Chicano/a literature. In Real Women Have Curves the protagonists are conditioned by la migra as much as by race stereotyping and gender limits, living in a metaphoric frontera between ...
Marta Fernández Morales
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Tři proti dualismu: Postkoloniální re/interpretace hybridních postav chicanské femininity [PDF]
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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Rural students face multiple issues pursuing higher education, including financial hardships, inadequate college preparation, and geographic isolation from postsecondary institutions.
Mayra Puente +3 more
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After explaining that “Home Girls” is a term commonly used in the United States to refer to “women of color,” Alvina Quintana introduces herself as “a Chicana who thrives on the writing produced by [her] Chicana ‘Home Girls’”.
Leila Assumpção Harris
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Where Do Social Inequalities Come From?: Class Divides in Chicana/o-Latina/o Literature
There’s no denying that the Occupy movement, aside from everything else it has accomplished since 2011, created ample opportunities in college classrooms for teaching about the super wealthy, or the 1%, and their role in reproducing social and economic ...
Marcial González
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The representation of women in crime fiction has traditionally been a complicated one. Consistently forced into secondary characters (assistants, girlfriends, or damsels in distress) the most active role a female character could aspire to was that of the
Carmen Méndez García
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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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[Review of] Manuel de Jesus Hemandez-Gutierrez and David William Foster, eds. Literatura Chicana, 1965-1995: An Anthology in Spanish, English, and Calo [PDF]
The works included in this anthology, many of them previously printed, reflect six characteristic themes of Chicana/o contemporary literature: the search for identity, feminism, conservatism, revisionism, homoeroticism, and internationalism (xix ...
Kafka, Phillipa
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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]
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
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Abstract Transgender and nonbinary (TNB) individuals experience high rates of relational trauma from parental figures, yet their pathways to healing remain underexplored. This qualitative study used constructivist grounded theory to develop a theoretical framework of how TNB adults heal from parental relational trauma.
Joonwoo Lee +4 more
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