Full Description
This first-of-its-kind volume bridges Chicana/Latina feminist perspectives with education and offers innovative ideas on teaching and learning, and ways of knowing.
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.
Contents
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
