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Homegirls, Hoodrats and Hos: Co-constructing Gang Status through Discourse and Performance
International 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
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Lesbianism and Chicana Literature: Constructing an Identity
Anuario 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
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Where Do Social Inequalities Come From?: Class Divides in Chicana/o-Latina/o Literature
Radical 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
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Altre Modernità, 2016 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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Gender Studies, 2021 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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New Directions for Higher Education, EarlyView.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 +3 more
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Journal of Traumatic Stress, EarlyView.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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Identity Entanglement: Rethinking Marginality through the Intersectional, Liminal, and Antithetical
Symbolic 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
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Revista DecifrarEsta pesquisa analisa as protagonistas das obras I’m Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (2017), de Erika Sánchez, e Gabi, a Girl in Pieces (2014), de Isabel Quintero, em duas narrativas ficcionais sobre jovens latinas da primeira geração, nascidas nos ...
Juliana Luna Freire +2 more
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Fraying the Edges of Literacies: What Do Post‐Philosophies Produce for Early Childhood Literacies?
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 3, July/August/September 2026.Paper skateboard park and worms' house; is it literacy? We invite a discussion on how post‐philosophies have, and could, open up possibilities for thinking about early literacies. By fraying the edges of certainty and legitimacy around what counts as literacy and who is viewed as literate (according to humanist logics), post‐philosophical concepts ...
Abigail Hackett, Candace R. Kuby
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