Chicana/Latina Education in Everyday Life

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Winner of the 2006 Critics' Choice Awards presented by the American Educational Studies Association

This groundbreaking volume explores both Chicana/Latina feminist definitions of teaching and learning, and ways of knowing in education. The book's contributors—Chicana/Latina feminist scholars—reinterpret the field of education as inter- and transdisciplinary and connected to ethnic, racial, and womanist scholarship. They examine mujer- (women-) centered definitions of pedagogy and epistemology rooted in Chicana/Latina theories and visions of life, family, community, and world. Armed with the tools of Chicana/Latina feminist thought, the contributors link cultural studies theories to critical/feminist pedagogies by re-envisioning the sites of pedagogy to include women's brown bodies and their agency.

Preface
Acknowledgments

Chicanas/Latinas Building Bridges: An Introduction
Sofia Villenas, Francisca E. Godinez, Dolores Delgado Bernal, C. Alejandra Elenes

Part I
Youth Bodies and Emerging Subjectivities
Francisca E. Godinez

I Am
Elizabeth Cruz Godinez

1. Huitzlampa: Surtiendo Invisibilidad South: Sorting through Invisible
Jo Anna Mixpe Ley

2. Haciendo que hacer: Braiding Cultural Knowledge into Educational Practices and Policies
Francisca E. Godinez

3. Critical Literacies as Feminist Affirmations and Interventions: Contextualizing Latina Youth's Construction of their College-Bound Identities
Michelle G. Knight, Iris R. Dixon, Nadjwa E. L. Norton, Courtney C. Bentley

4. Toward an Epistemology of a Brown Body
Cindy Cruz

Part II
Mujeres in College: Negotiating Identities and Challenging Educational Norms
Dolores Delgado Bernal

5. The Critical Consciousness of Chicana and Latina Students: Negotiating Identity Amid Sociocultural Beliefs and Ideology
Michelle A. Holling

6. “Here They Go Again with the Race Stuff”: Chicana Negotiations of the Graduate Experience
L. Esthela Banuelos

7. Learning and Living Pedagogies of the Home: The Mestiza Consciousness of Chicana Students
Dolores Delgado Bernal

8. Our Pedagogy of Sisterhood: A Testimonio
Rebecca Burciaga and Ana Tavares

Part III
Mature Latina Adults and Mothers: Pedagogies of Wholeness and Resilience
Sofia Villenas

9. Pedagogical Moments in the Borderlands: Latina Mothers Teaching and Learning
Sofia Villenas

10. Campesina Epistemologies and Pedagogies of the Spirit: Examining Women’s Sobrevivencia
Ruth Trinidad Galvan

11. Humor Casero Mujerista—Womanist Humor of the Home: Laughing All the Way to Greater Cultural Understandings and Social Relations
Rosario Carrillo

12. Testimonios of Border Identities: “Una Mujer Acomedida Donde Quiera Cabe”
Norma Gonzalez

Part IV
Borderlands, Pedagogies, and Epistemologies
C. Alejandra Elenes

13. “Start with the Land”: Groundwork for Chicana Pedagogy
Karleen Pendleton Jimenez

14. Environmental Justice on the Mexico-U.S. Border: Toward a Borderlands Methodology
Perlita R. Dicochea

15. Transformando Fronteras: Chicana Feminist Transformative Pedagogies
C. Alejandra Elenes

16. Fiera, Guambra, Y Karichina! Transgressing the Borders of Community and Academy
Jennifer Ayala, Patricia Herrera, Laura Jimenez, and Irene Lara

Contributors
Index

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• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 17 août 2006
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791481516
• Langue: English
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Chicana /Latina Education in Everyday Life Feminista Perspectives on Pedagogy and Epistemology

Dolores Delgado Bernal C. Alejandra Elenes Francisca E. Godinez Sofia Villenas editors

Chicana/Latina Education in Everyday Life

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Chicana/Latina Education in Everyday Life

Feminista Perspectives on Pedagogy and Epistemology

Edited by Dolores Delgado Bernal C. Alejandra Elenes Francisca E. Godinez Sofia Villenas

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Contents

Preface

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Acknowledgments

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Chicanas/Latinas Building Bridges: An Introduction 1 Sofia Villenas, Francisca E. Godinez, Dolores Delgado Bernal, C. Alejandra Elenes

P A R T I Youth Bodies and Emerging Subjectivities Francisca E. Godinez

I Am 15 Elizabeth Cruz Godinez

1.Huitzlampa: Surtiéndo Invisibilidad South: Sorting through Invisible 17 Jo Anna Mixpe Ley

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2.Haciendo que hacer:Braiding Cultural Knowledge into Educational Practices and Policies 25 Francisca E. Godinez

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3. Critical Literacies as Feminist Affirmations and Interventions: Contextualizing Latina Youth’s Construction of their College-Bound Identities 39 Michelle G. Knight, Iris R. Dixon, Nadjwa E. L. Norton, Courtney C. Bentley

4. Toward an Epistemology of a Brown Body Cindy Cruz

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P A R T I I Mujeresin College: Negotiating Identities and Challenging Educational Norms 77 Dolores Delgado Bernal

5. The Critical Consciousness of Chicana and Latina Students: Negotiating Identity Amid Sociocultural Beliefs and Ideology 81 Michelle A. Holling

6. “Here They Go Again with the Race Stuff ”: Chicana Negotiations of the Graduate Experience L. Esthela Bañuelos

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7. Learning and Living Pedagogies of the Home: The Mestiza Consciousness of Chicana Students 113 Dolores Delgado Bernal

8. Our Pedagogy of Sisterhood: ATestimonio Rebecca Burciaga and Ana Tavares

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P A R T I I I Mature Latina Adults and Mothers: Pedagogies of Wholeness and Resilience 143 Sofia Villenas

9. Pedagogical Moments in the Borderlands: Latina Mothers Teaching and Learning 147 Sofia Villenas

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10.CampesinaEpistemologies and Pedagogies of the Spirit: Examining Women’sSobrevivencia161 Ruth Trinidad Galván

11.Humor Casero Mujerista—Womanist Humor of the Home: Laughing All the Way to Greater Cultural Understandings and Social Relations 181 Rosario Carrillo

12.Testimoniosof Border Identities:“Una Mujer Acomedida Donde Quiera Cabe”197 Norma González

P A R T I V Borderlands, Pedagogies, and Epistemologies C. Alejandra Elenes

13. “Start with the Land”: Groundwork for Chicana Pedagogy Karleen Pendleton Jiménez

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14. Environmental Justice on the Mexico–U.S. Border: Toward a Borderlands Methodology 231 Perlita R. Dicochea

15.Transformando Fronteras:Chicana Feminist Transformative Pedagogies 245 C. Alejandra Elenes

16.Fiera, Guambra, Y Karichina! Transgressing the Borders of Community and Academy 261 Jennifer Ayala, Patricia Herrera, Laura Jiménez, and Irene Lara

Contributors

Index

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Preface

The Making of Our Anthology

The making of our anthology—the conception, birth, and ongoing nurturing process that we were engaged in for over five years—embodies what this book is all about. As editors of the anthology we have shared our personal and pro- fessional lives. We have worked and supported each other through the deaths of loved ones, births, marriage, tenure, and much more. Sharing a little bit about the making of our anthology is important because we think our collec- tive personal and professional lives speak to our efforts asmujeresand our own feministapractices and pedagogies. The Conception—Like our foremothers, we took to the kitchen table to begin formulating our thoughts. In summer 1999, while cooking dinner and minding the children, Sofia, Francisca, and Dolores came together in Sofia’s home. We had a laptop at the table, alongside a home-cooked meal, and we re- corded our understandings of pedagogies that recognize knowledge, power, and politics as central to all teaching and learning. We worked on a proposal to present at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Associa- tion (AERA). Our focus was on nontraditional pedagogies from a Chicana/Lat- ina perspective so we contacted Alejandra because we knew that she too was doing work that theorized pedagogies from a Chicana feminist perspective. We continued our dialogue withmujeresin the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies who were having discussions on the Chicana Listserv about providing a forum to talk aboutmujeristaways of knowing, teaching, and learning. At the NACCS 2000 conference, the Chicana Plenary was titled Chicana Feminist Epistemologies and Pedagogies. Alejandra and Dolores presented with Maria Soldatenko some of their individual work that weaved together our collective thoughts about pedagogy and epistemology.

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