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‘Once you get the card you can do anything you want.’ Migrant Identities and Gender Transgression in Chicana Dramatic Literature

open access: yesOdisea, 2017
: 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
doaj   +1 more source

Homegirls, Hoodrats and Hos: Co-constructing Gang Status through Discourse and Performance

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2016
Despite a growing literature regarding female gang membership, little is known about the ways in which gang-affiliated women negotiate the boundaries of gang membership.
Abigail Kolb, Ted Palys
doaj   +1 more source

Christ in Yaqui Garb: Teresa Urrea’s Christian Theology and Ethic

open access: yesReligions, 2021
A healer, Mexican folk saint, and revolutionary figurehead, Teresa Urrea exhibited a deeply inculturated Christianity. Yet in academic secondary literature and historical fiction that has arisen around Urrea, she is rarely examined as a Christian ...
Ryan Ramsey
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Tři proti dualismu: Postkoloniální re/interpretace hybridních postav chicanské femininity [PDF]

open access: yesGender 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
doaj   +1 more source

Rural Latinx Students’ Spatial Imaginations of Their College Choices: Toward a Student Understanding of “Rural-Serving Institutions” in California’s San Joaquin Valley

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2023
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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Lesbianism and Chicana Literature: Constructing an Identity

open access: yesAnuario de Estudios Americanos, 2010
The paper studies the construction of a specific lesbian identity in the literary production of Chicana lesbians, analyzing its feminist roots, its use of diverse literary forms, the role of theory and the importance of the body, as well as the presence of butch/femme roles; it later examines the devices employed by the authors to reject the persistent
openaire   +3 more sources

Identity Entanglement: Rethinking Marginality through the Intersectional, Liminal, and Antithetical

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
While identity research has given sustained attention to marginality, intersectionality, and the effects of power on identity, the formal interactional dynamics through which identities are constituted remain limited. I present identity entanglement as a useful framework for better understanding and articulating the relational complexities of identity.
Jules Vivid
wiley   +1 more source

Literary translations : telenovelas in contemporary Chicana literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
textChicana literature is often discussed in relation to broad literary or theoretical movements (post-modernism, magic realism, or feminism) but these approaches often fail to account for or even consider other culturally derived sources of critical ...
Graf, Amara Ann
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Where Do Social Inequalities Come From?: Class Divides in Chicana/o-Latina/o Literature

open access: yesRadical Teacher, 2015
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
doaj   +1 more source

Using a Master Narrative Framework to Examine Conversations About Race and Ethnicity

open access: yesJournal of Personality, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Systemic racism, reinforced by color‐evasive ideology, shapes the ways that emerging adults process and discuss race/ethnicity. In this preregistered and mixed methods study, we used a master narrative framework to examine narratives about race/ethnicity among U.S. emerging adult friend‐pairs.
Dulce W. Westberg   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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