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Exploring the Role of Racism and Campus Responses in Student Belonging and Resource Use at Community Colleges

New Directions for Community Colleges, Volume 2025, Issue 212, Page 95-104, Winter 2025.
ABSTRACT This study reports on our exploration of the relationship between racism, campus responses, and the sense of belonging and resource engagement among Students of Color at US community colleges. Using data from the Center for Community College Student Engagement's (CCCSE) 2021 Race/Ethnicity survey, we explored personal and witnessed experiences
Carlton J. Fong, Pedram Zarei, Semilore F. Adelugba, Agustín J. García   +3 more
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Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street: The Bildungsroman and Identity Formation

IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship
This article employs the psychosocial theories of Erik Erikson on identity development to negotiate the growth and learning process of Esperanza Cordero, the young adolescent heroine of Sandra Cisneros’s novel The House on Mango Street (1984).
Shadi S. Neimneh
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To Arrive Is to Begin: Benjamin Sáenz's Carry Me Like Water and the Pilgrimage of Origin in the Borderlands

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 2001
This essay examines the "pilgrimage of origin" as presented in Benjamin Sáenz's novel Carry Me Like Water . As is the case with other ethnic literature, Carry Me Like Water teaches us that we must first go back before we can move forward and transform
Alberto López Pulido
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The Case for Community‐Owned and ‐Managed Research and Community Health Assessments: Promotora‐Researchers’ Partnerships Generate Adaptive Health Evaluation Tools

Community Science, Volume 4, Issue 4, December 2025.
Abstract Federal and state health data sets often lack the granularity needed for medically underserved small towns. To address this, we conducted two community health assessment surveys in Knights Landing (KL), a rural agricultural town in California, to identify local healthcare strengths, barriers, and needs.
W. L. J. Ho, S. Rodriguez, E. Pardo, J. Tang, D. Piñon, S. Somepalle, J. Kelty, S. Manukian, M. Wilson, J. Ontiveros, N. Deeb‐Sossa, A. Aranda, 2018 Knights Landing Promotora‐Researchers   +12 more
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“A Detour in Longing”: Gender, Sexuality and Lesbian Desire in Carla Trujillo’s What Night Brings and Emma Pérez’s Gulf Dreams

Revista Estudos Feministas, 2018
Questions of gender and sexuality have oftentimes been portrayed as taboo in traditionalist conservative societies. Gloria Anzaldúa claims in Borderlands/La Frontera (1999) that “she [the lesbian of color] goes against two moral prohibitions: sexuality ...
Nathália Araújo Duarte Gouvêa
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Dual language in higher education: Assessing student success and student experiences

Foreign Language Annals, Volume 58, Issue 4, Page 916-940, Winter 2025.
Abstract Although long‐standing research has documented the many benefits of dual language (DL) education programs in the K‐12 setting, there are few studies on the impact of DL in higher education. This study analyzes DL education at a Hispanic‐Serving Institution (HSI) where certain classes are taught in Spanish or bilingually across diverse ...
Katherine Christoffersen, Ramsés Ortín, Dania López García, Ming Tsan Lu, Javier Cavazos   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decolonizing Approaches to Family Science as Intersectional Latinx and Caribbean Scholars

Journal of Family Theory &Review, Volume 17, Issue 4, Page 895-909, December 2025.
ABSTRACT The field of human development and family science is broadening the scope for what is deemed legitimate science; however, the voices of Latinx and Caribbean scholars have been largely absent. We contend that it is not sufficient to merely disrupt hegemonic worldviews and practices in the production of knowledge, but it is also necessary to ...
J. Maria Bermudez, Luis R. Alvarez‐Hernandez, Bertranna A. Muruthi, Yolanda Machado‐Escudero, Mario Fausto Gomez‐Lamont   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rasquache vulnerability and theories of the flesh: Working through the flesh in (auto)ethnography as a site of disruption

Feminist Anthropology, Volume 6, Issue 2, November 2025.
Abstract In this article, I blend authoethnography and ethnography to activate a Chicanx feminist theory of the flesh, which is grounded in the sensibilities of vulnerability and rasquachismo. Rasquachismo is a politicized Mexican American visceral modality of being in the world—in art, in politics, in everydayness—that is rooted in purposeful defiance
Andrea M. Lopez
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Cultural approximation and didactic strategies:the case of the Chicano literature

Ибероамериканские тетради, 2016
In this article we first present the contribution of Chicano literature to understand the position of this culture within the social context of the United States.
Aura Luz DuÉ Montalván, María del Suñén Bernal   +1 more
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“Even if My Voice Shakes, I'm Still Going to Say It”: How Elementary Literacy Educators in Texas Enact Criticality Using Children's Literature

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 4, October/December 2025.
ABSTRACT Critical K‐12 educators who teach students to question the status quo have always faced censorship, rebuke, and potential loss of livelihood. This risk is particularly heightened in conservative areas, like Texas, where ideological opposition to equity often results in legislative threats to ban literature and censor curriculum that addresses ...
Saba Khan Vlach
wiley   +1 more source