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“A Little History Here, a Little Hollywood There”: (Counter-) Identifying with the Spanish Fantasy in Carlos Morton’s Rancho Hollywood and Theresa Chavez’s L.A. Real [PDF]
, 2014 Often considered the final conquest and ultimate summation of Manifest Destiny, California holds a unique place in the American imaginary. While the popular mythology of the Spanish fantasy has served to obscure the use of violence and racialized ...
Mohler, Courtney
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Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 32, Issue 5, Page 1834-1849, September 2025.ABSTRACT This article contributes to the emergent literature on motherhood in neoliberal higher education by proposing liberatory motherhood as a theoretical framework and praxis to deconstruct and reconstruct motherhood in the neoliberal academy. The author, an early‐career immigrant woman scholar of color, uses feminist autoethnography to critically ...
Bhavika Sicka
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MIGRATION, MOBILITY, AND BEING IN TRANSLATION
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 396-404, September 2025.ABSTRACT Drawing on an expanded concept of translation as process and practice, this contribution to the “Translation, Migration, Narrative” forum explores how migrants, as described by scholars such as Paul F. Bandia, embody “translated beings” who are marked both by agency and by constraint.
Peter Schneck, Julie M. Weise
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Crossing Disciplinary Borders: Latino/a Studies and Latin American Studies in the 1990s [PDF]
, 2001 Over the 30 years of their existence, studies of Latinos/as in the U.S. and the field of Latin American Studies have emerged largely as divided disciplines. That is, despite what would appear to be similar sensibilities including comparable criticisms of
Sampaio, Anna
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Optional Online Research Projects On Four Stories In Sandra Cisneros\u27 Woman Hollering Creek And Other Stories [PDF]
, 2017 For high school and college and university students and their teachers. These online and print research projects are optional, but they will supplement and deepen students\u27 engagement with Cisneros\u27 stories.
Schmidt, Peter
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Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 3, July/September 2025.Borderlads Biliteracies Abstract ABSTRACT In this theoretical paper, we aim to (re)imagine and (re)conceptualize biliteracy as an anti‐colonial endeavor to destabilize colonial projects that continue to permeate how language and literacy are conceptualized in schools.
Idalia Nuñez +2 more
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Odisea, 2017 Diasporic writing has given rise to what some critics have called “Half-bred poetics” or “Hyphen poetics”, among other terms, and it is in the context of this poetics that diasporic writing can be best understood.
Carolina Fernández Rodríguez
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La frontera entre México y Estados Unidos: transgresiones y convergencias en textos transfronterizos
Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal, 2014 Este estudio trata de contextualizar la naturaleza y trayectoria de cómo ha sido percibida, catalogada y tratada la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos. Su evolución permite ver cómo opera en los dos países y cómo ambos han negado su importancia hasta
Francisco A. Lomelí
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Sociology Compass, Volume 19, Issue 7, July 2025.ABSTRACT Beauty Labor, as a traditionally gendered low‐wage work, offers an important site to examine exploitation and, simultaneously, resistance to systems of racialized, gendered, and class‐based inequality in the labor market. Existing literature on beauty labor falls into one of two approaches: (1) oppressive systems shaping and structuring the ...
Sepideh Borzoo
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Science Education, Volume 109, Issue 3, Page 745-768, May 2025.ABSTRACT Bold interventions are needed to change racial disparities and unacceptably low STEMM completion rates at historically white institutions that have the resources to train a new generation of scientists with diverse backgrounds. Three university case studies were conducted on the Meyerhoff Adaptation Partnership, which sought to develop student‐
Channel C. McLewis +4 more
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