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Latina identity and military enlistment: The intersection of race, ethnicity, and gender

Feminist Anthropology, Volume 7, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Despite the increase in literature on women veterans and women in the military, little is known about Latina experiences during and after military service, particularly from the Gulf War and Post‐9/11 eras. This qualitative study utilizes critical feminist theory to explore the complex intersections of cultural, gendered, and sexual identities
Karla Hernandez‐Swift
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Expressions of Dismemberment in Chicana/o Literature

, 2016
Dismemberment is featured as a central theme in Chicana/o literature—the corporeal and psychological manifestations of social, political, and economic displacement or disfranchisement as an act of marginalization of Chicanas/os in the United States ...
Mancera, Cristina Natalí
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"Don't point the deficit finger at me foo!!!": Chicana/o school disengagement and re-engagement in West Los Angeles [PDF]

, 2010
In depth individual and group interviews of 8 Mexican American (Chicana/o) dropouts/pushouts involved in a progressive grassroots youth organization in Los Angeles were used to investigate Chicana/o school disengagement and re-engagement.
Ramirez, Johnny C.
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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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Freak to queer bodies: affirming the grotesque in contemporary art

Frontiers in Sociology
This article analyzes artworks that employ the grotesque to challenge hegemonic discourses. It draws a parallel between bodies depicted in 19th-century freak shows and queer bodies represented in artistic productions from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s.
Júlia Mello
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Researching Empowerment in Chicana/o Histories

, 2002
No abstract available.Commentator: "Researching Empowerment in Chicana/o Histories," National Association of Chicano and Chicana Studies, March 27-30, 2002, Chicago ...
José M. Alamillo
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Hispanic Latino Chicana Heritage Celebration (2007 Fall)

, 2007
University of Minnesota, Duluth. Hispanic/Latino/Chicana Student Services. (2007). Hispanic Latino Chicana Heritage Celebration (2007 Fall).
University of Minnesota, Duluth. Hispanic/Latino/Chicana Student Services
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Interpreter, interlocutor, intermediary, traitress: An exemplary figure in chicana literature and culture

American and British Studies Annual, 2012
La Malinche, Cortés’ interpreter and both real and symbolic mother of the mestizo race, is a paradigmatic figure in Mexican and Chicano/a cultures, in which she comes to represent an embodiment of national and linguistic betrayal.
Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová
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The Development and Influence of the Chicana Identity in Literature [PDF]

The purpose of this study is to identify the influences past literature and writers have had on the modern interpretation of the Chicana identity. I tracked the works of three foundational Chicana writers (Sandra Cisneros, Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga)
Kayley Pedroza
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Towards a Half-bred Poetics: The Role of Dramatic Irony in the Short Stories of the Chicano Borderlands

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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