Stereotypes of Mexican-American women and the lack of their representation in research literature contribute to misrepresentations of Mexican-American culture and their invisibility. In this qualitative study, Mexican-American women were interviewed and their life histories examined using an ethnographic and hermeneutical phenomenological approach.
Stereotypes of Mexican-American women and the lack of their representation in research literature contribute to misrepresentations of Mexican-American...
Arguing for the contingent nature of theories and the need for nuanced perspectives in their invocation across politically-uneven contexts, this study models a way of productively engaging the current debates between deconstructive cultural criticism and the project of indigenization as these are played out in the struggles of Filipino and Filipino American academics seeking empowerment for their respective communities.
Arguing for the contingent nature of theories and the need for nuanced perspectives in their invocation across politically-uneven contexts, this study...