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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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Homegirls, Hoodrats and Hos: Co-constructing Gang Status through Discourse and Performance
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
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Christ in Yaqui Garb: Teresa Urrea’s Christian Theology and Ethic
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]
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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Lesbianism and Chicana Literature: Constructing an Identity
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
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Identity Entanglement: Rethinking Marginality through the Intersectional, Liminal, and Antithetical
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
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Literary translations : telenovelas in contemporary Chicana literature [PDF]
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
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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Using a Master Narrative Framework to Examine Conversations About Race and Ethnicity
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
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