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

ISBN-13: 9780367151089 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 238 str.

Carmen Martinez-Roldan

Opis

This book presents narrative studies by or about Latinas in which they speak up about issues of identity and education. The narratives illustrate the various ways erasure and human agency shape the identities of Latinas in the United States from primary to higher education.

Spis treści

1. Narrating Erasure, Narrating Agency: Towards a Transformative Activist  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  3. Growing Old/Growing Up Gringa: Negotiating Puertorriqueñidad and Americanism in the Midwest  4. Armonía Con Una Palita De Conflicto: A ‘Latino’ Relationship as Intercultural   5. Unearthing el Árbol de Mis Raíces as a First-Generation Graduate Student  Part 2: Mobilizing Places and Voice: Authoring Linguistic and Academic Identities  6. Reclaiming La Lengua: A Self-Narrative on Language Loss, Learning, and Identity  7. It Takes a Village: Advocating for a Bilingual Student with Dis/Abilities  8. Teachers’ Mentoring Role, or Lack Thereof, in Latinas’ Erasure of a STEM Identity  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  10. Transgressing Pedagogical Borders of Oppression: A Poblana Mexicana Indígena-Migrante Praxis  11. Narratives as Tools for Agency: Teachers and Students as Activists.  Afterword: To Defy Erasure . . .

O autorze

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