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Latina Agency through Narration in Education: Speaking Up on Erasure, Identity, and Schooling book cover

1st Edition

Latina Agency through Narration in Education Speaking Up on Erasure, Identity, and Schooling

Edited By Carmen M. Martinez-Roldan Copyright 2021
256 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Drawing on critical and sociocultural frameworks, this volume presents narrative studies by or about Latinas in which they speak up about issues of identity and education. Using narratives, self-identification stories, and testimonios as theory, methodology, and advocacy, this volume brings together a wide range of Latinx perspectives on education identity, bilingualism, and belonging. The... Read more

1. Narrating Erasure, Narrating Agency: Towards a Transformative Activist

Carmen M. Martínez-Roldán

Part 1: Mobilizing Funds of Knowledge and Funds of Identities: Negotiating Bicultural Identities

2. Soy Un Amasamiento: A Critical Self-Narrative on Latina Identity Development

Diana Cordova-Cobo

3. Growing Old/Growing Up Gringa: Negotiating Puertorriqueñidad and Americanism in the Midwest

Maried Rivera Nieves

4. Armonía Con Una Palita De Conflicto: A ‘Latino’ Relationship as Intercultural

Martha Iris Rosas

5. Unearthing el Árbol de Mis Raíces as a First-Generation Graduate Student

Victoria Hernandez

Part 2: Mobilizing Places and Voice: Authoring Linguistic and Academic Identities

6. Reclaiming La Lengua: A Self-Narrative on Language Loss, Learning, and Identity

Marisol Cantú

7. It Takes a Village: Advocating for a Bilingual Student with Dis/Abilities

Elise Holzbauer Cocozzo

8. Teachers’ Mentoring Role, or Lack Thereof, in Latinas’ Erasure of a STEM Identity

Minosca Alcántara

Part 3: Mobilizing Networks of Solidarity: Creating Spaces for Agency

9. Fill a Void to Create New Space: The Narrative and Counternarratives of Zoraida Lopez

Eliza Clark

10. Transgressing Pedagogical Borders of Oppression: A Poblana Mexicana Indígena-Migrante Praxis

Daniela Conde

11. Narratives as Tools for Agency: Teachers and Students as Activists

Carmen M. Martínez-Roldán

Afterword: To Defy Erasure . . .

Patricia Enciso

Biography

Carmen M. Martínez-Roldán is Associate Professor of Bilingual/Bicultural Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.

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