Chicana/Latina Education in Everyday Life : Feminista Perspectives on Pedagogy and Epistemology

by Delgado Bernal, Dolores; Elenes, C. Alejandra; Godinez, Francisca E.; Villenas, Sofia A.

• ISBN13: 9780791468050
• ISBN10: 0791468054
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-11
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Chicanas/Latinas Building Bridges: An Introduction	1	(10)
Sofia Villenas, Francisca E. Godinez, Dolores Delgado Bernal, C. Alejandra Elenes
PART II Youth Bodies and Emerging Subjectivities	11	(66)
Francisca E. Godinez
I Am	15	(132)
Elizabeth Cruz Godinez
1. Huitzlampa: Surtiéndo Invisibilidad South: Sorting through Invisible	17	(8)
Jo Anna Mixpe Ley
2. Haciendo que hecer: Braiding Cultural Knowledge into Educational Practices and Policies	25	(14)
Francisca E. Godinez
3. Critical Literacies as Feminist Affirmations and Interventions: Contextualizing Latina Youth's Construction of their College-Bound Identities	39	(20)
Michelle G. Knight, Iris R. Dixon, Nadjwa E.L. Norton, Courtney C. Bentley
4. Toward an Epistemology of a Brown Body	59	(22)
Cindy Cruz
PART II Mujeres in College: Negotiating Identities and Challenging Educational Norms	77	(66)
Dolores Delgado Bernal
5. The Critical Consciousness of Chicana and Latina Students: Negotiating Identity Amid Sociocultural Beliefs and Ideology	81	(14)
Michelle A. Holling
6. "Here They Go Again with the Race Stuff": Chicana Negotiations of the Graduate Experience	95	(18)
L. Esthela Bañuelos
7. Learning and Living Pedagogies of the Home: The Mestiza Consciousness of Chicana Students	113	(20)
Dolores Delgado Bernal
8. Our Pedagogy of Sisterhood: A Testimonio	133	(14)
Rebecca Burciaga and Ana Tavares
PART III Mature Latina Adults and Mothers: Pedagogies of Wholeness and Resilience	143	(72)
Sofia Villenas
9. Pedagogical Moments in the Borderlands: Latina Mothers Teaching and Learning	147	(14)
Sofia Villenas
10. Campesina Epistemologies and Pedagogies of the Spirit: Examining Women's Sobrevivencia	161	(36)
Ruth Trinidad Galván
11. Humor Casero Mujerista—Womanist Humor of the Home: Laughing All the Way to Greater Cultural Understandings and Social Relations At
Rosario Carrillo
12. Testimonios of Border Identities: "Una Mujer Acomedida Donde Quiera Cabe"	197	(22)
Norma González
PART IV Borderlands, Pedagogies, and Epistemologies	215	(66)
C. Alejandra Elenes
13. "Start with the Land": Groundwork for Chicana Pedagogy	219	(12)
Karleen Pendleton Jiménez
14. Environmental Justice on the Mexico-U.S. Border: Toward a Borderlands Methodology	231	(14)
Perlita R. Dicochea
15. Transformando Fronteras: Chicana Feminist Transformative Pedagogies	245	(16)
C. Alejandra Elenes
16. Fiera, Guambra, Y Karichina! Transgressing the Borders of Community and Academy	261	(20)
Jennifer Ayala, Patricia Herrera, Laura Jiménez, and Irene Lara
Contributors	281	(6)
Index	287