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Living/leaving la vida loca: on barrios, Chicano youth and gangs.

Odisea, 2017
: Most US barrios are characterized by abundant academic failure, insufficient educational resources and high unemployment rates. In this context, the street becomes a place in which lower class Chicano kids find a space they belong to and a communal tie
Amaia Ibarraran Bigalondo
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Loving, Luchando, and Literacy: Bilingual Latinx Mothers and the Power of Testimonios in a Community Book Club

The Reading Teacher, Volume 80, Issue 1, July/August 2026.
This study centers bilingual Latinx mothers who engaged in cuentos and testimonios alongside their children during a community book club. Their stories, rooted in love, language, and resistance, challenge deficit narratives and redefine literacy as relational, multimodal, and culturally grounded—positioning mothers as powerful pedagogues and cultural ...
Celina‐Maria Espinosa de Rosales, Eurydice Bouchereau Bauer, Lenny Sánchez   +2 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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“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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“Each and Every One of Us:” A Comparative Case Study of Coalitional Literacy Praxis in Community Organizing and School Spaces

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 2, April/May/June 2026.
How is solidarity built through literacy practice in two different educational spaces (one community‐organizing based and one classroom‐based) in a large, ethnically and racially diverse, urban context? Case #1: Intergenerational Immigrant Rights Community Workshop By & For Latine/x Immigrants Focused On Deportation Priorities Case #2: Sixth Grade ...
Alicia Rusoja, Kathleen Riley
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‘Work locally but think globally’: The Alliance Against Women's Oppression and transnational multiracial grassroots activism in the 1980s

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 390-405, March 2026.
Abstract This article examines the transnational history of the Alliance Against Women's Oppression (AAWO), a multiracial and Marxist US women's organisation founded in California in 1979. By focusing on the political connection between the AAWO, the so‐called ‘Third World’ and other international organisations such as the Women International ...
Bruno Walter Renato Toscano
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A Poetic Analysis of Youth's Critical Literacies as a Way of Being in and Beyond School

Journal of Adolescent &Adult Literacy, Volume 69, Issue 4, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores the critical literacies of Black and Latinx high school students who participated in a youth participatory action research project focused on racial injustice in education. The author utilizes poetic analysis of data collected in research about youth's work to viscerally render youth's everyday ways of employing critical ...
Aimee Hendrix‐Soto
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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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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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