Chicana/Latina Education in Everyday Life

Dolores Delgado Bernal is Associate Professor of Education and Chicana/o Studies at the University of Utah. C. Alejandra Elenes is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Arizona State University. Francisca E. Godinez teaches Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at California State University at Sacramento.

• PrefaceAcknowledgments Chicanas/Latinas Building Bridges: An IntroductionSofia Villenas, Francisca E. Godinez, Dolores Delgado Bernal, C. Alejandra Elenes Part I Youth Bodies and Emerging SubjectivitiesFrancisca E. Godinez I AmElizabeth Cruz Godinez 1. Huitzlampa: Surtiendo Invisibilidad South: Sorting through InvisibleJo Anna Mixpe Ley 2. Haciendo que hacer: Braiding Cultural Knowledge into Educational Practices and PoliciesFrancisca E. Godinez 3. Critical Literacies as Feminist Affirmations and Interventions: Contextualizing Latina Youth's Construction of their College-Bound IdentitiesMichelle G. Knight, Iris R. Dixon, Nadjwa E. L. Norton, Courtney C. Bentley 4. Toward an Epistemology of a Brown BodyCindy Cruz Part II Mujeres in College: Negotiating Identities and Challenging Educational NormsDolores Delgado Bernal 5. The Critical Consciousness of Chicana and Latina Students: Negotiating Identity Amid Sociocultural Beliefs and IdeologyMichelle A. Holling 6. "Here They Go Again with the Race Stuff": Chicana Negotiations of the Graduate ExperienceL. Esthela Banuelos 7. Learning and Living Pedagogies of the Home: The Mestiza Consciousness of Chicana StudentsDolores Delgado Bernal 8. Our Pedagogy of Sisterhood: A TestimonioRebecca Burciaga and Ana Tavares Part III Mature Latina Adults and Mothers: Pedagogies of Wholeness and ResilienceSofia Villenas 9. Pedagogical Moments in the Borderlands: Latina Mothers Teaching and LearningSofia Villenas 10. Campesina Epistemologies and Pedagogies of the Spirit: Examining Women’s SobrevivenciaRuth Trinidad Galvan 11. Humor Casero Mujerista—Womanist Humor of the Home: Laughing All the Way to Greater Cultural Understandings and Social RelationsRosario Carrillo 12. Testimonios of Border Identities: "Una Mujer Acomedida Donde Quiera Cabe"Norma Gonzalez Part IV Borderlands, Pedagogies, and EpistemologiesC. Alejandra Elenes 13. "Start with the Land": Groundwork for Chicana PedagogyKarleen Pendleton Jimenez 14. Environmental Justice on the Mexico-U.S. Border: Toward a Borderlands MethodologyPerlita R. Dicochea 15. Transformando Fronteras: Chicana Feminist Transformative PedagogiesC. Alejandra Elenes 16. Fiera, Guambra, Y Karichina! Transgressing the Borders of Community and AcademyJennifer Ayala, Patricia Herrera, Laura Jimenez, and Irene Lara ContributorsIndex