Download or read book Mexican American Women s Perspectives of the Intersection of Race and Gender in Public High School written by Sandra L. Fernandez-Bergersen and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This qualitative multiple participant case study examined Mexican American women's experiences at the intersection of race and gender in public high school. Mexican American women's experiences cannot be isolated and described independently in terms of either race or gender. The intersection of race and gender for Mexican American women has not been investigated fully. The few studies that include Mexican American females focus on dropouts and emphasize at risk factors such as gender, race, socioeconomic status, and language. Consequently, the gaps in the empirical literature are caused in part by the shortage of research on Mexican American women and the propensity toward examining Mexican American women from the deficit perspective. Critical Race Theory was the framework for the analysis and the interpretation in this study. The significant findings of this research support CRT, in that racism is prevalent and ordinary in the daily the lives of Mexican American females. The findings of the study included: First, racism is endemic and pervasive in public education. Second, colorblindness is the notion from which many educational entities operate. Third, the participants perceive social justice as the solution to ending all forms of racism and oppression. Finally, navigating the system is necessary to learn to be academically successful. The results contribute to the limited research on Mexican American women at the intersection of race and gender and the racism experienced in public high school to the overall CRT research in education, and in particular, to LatCrit research.
Download or read book Women Without Class written by Julie Bettie and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this examination of white and Mexican-American girls coming of age in California's Central Valley, the author turns class theory on its head and offers new tools for understanding the ways in which class identity is constructed and, at times, fails to be constructed in relationship to color, ethnicity, gender, adn sexuality. Documenting the categories of subculture and style that high school students use to explain class and racial/ethnic differences among themselves, she depicts the complex identity performances of contemporary girls.
Download or read book La Chicana and the Intersection of Race Class and Gender written by Irene I. Blea and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Irene I. Blea describes the social situation of La Chicana, a minority female whose life is influenced by racism and sexism. Blea analyzes contemporary scholarship on race, class, and gender, scrutinizing the use of language and labels to examine how La Chicana is affected by these factors. The wide-ranging study explores the history of Chicanas and the meaning of the term Chicana, and considers her socialization process, the consequences of deviating from gender roles, and the evolution of Hispanic women onto the national scene in politics, health, economics, education, religion, and criminal justice. To date, little attention has been paid to the political, social, and cultural achievements of La Chicana. The shared lives of Mexican-American women and men at home and inside and outside of the barrio are also investigated. This unique volume highlights the variables that effectively discriminate against women of color. Following a chapter that reviews the literature on Chicanas and focuses on their participation in three major social movements, the text discusses the conquest of Mexico and the blending of Aztec and Spanish cultures. Next, the life of colonial Hispanic women in Mexico and the United States and the role of the Mexican War in shaping the Mexican-American experience are investigated. The following three chapters explore how Americanization disempowered La Chicana; discuss the contemporary cultural roles of la mujer (woman) and their impact on men's roles; and consider the lives of older women. Chapter Seven looks at how some women are defining new roles for La Chicana. Current social issues are compared with and contrasted to those of the 1960s. The final chapters develop a theory of discrimination based on the academic work of racial and ethnic minority scholars and feminist scholars, exploring new directions in the study of Chicanas. This volume is valuable as an undergraduate or graduate text, and as a reference work, as well as a useful resource for social service providers.
Download or read book Latina Students Experiences in Public Schools written by Susan McCullough and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on issues relating to gender, gender relations, and discrimination, this book provides nuanced insight into the experiences of young Latina women and their teachers in a North American middle school. Latina Students’ Experiences in Public Schools details how students navigate questions of gender, gender discrimination, and gender relations in the context of post-feminism, and in view of widespread claims that advocacy for girls and women has been outmoded by anti-discriminatory legislation. Drawing on an ethnographic study that focuses on gender segregation and dominance, relational identities, and the role of teachers in reinforcing gender dynamics, the text deftly demonstrates the effect of postfeminist policy and ideology on gender equity and achievement in public schools. In particular, the text illustrates that young Latina women continue to face both physical and verbal harassment on a daily basis, which is often overlooked by school faculty and administrators. A powerful and timely text, the volume advocates for action to counter school-based gender discrimination. This book will be of great interest to graduate and postgraduate students, researchers, academics, policy makers, libraries in the field of gender and sexuality in education, gender studies, secondary education and urban education.
Download or read book No One Really Asks Me what I Want to Do After High School written by Raquel Fanny Donoso and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This qualitative study assesses the ways in which Latina students experience racialized and gendered school climate and how those experiences may influence the way in which they make meaning of their postsecondary opportunities. Interviews were held with seven urban public high school students to recognize their lived experiences, pinpoint specific ways that race and gender show up on school campuses, and understand how that culture influences how they think about life after high school. The following research questions grounded this study. 1. How does racial and gendered school climate shape Latinas' schooling experience? 2. In what ways do these racial and gendered school experiences influence Latinas' postsecondary pathways? The research questions supported an exploration into the young women's stories of how they experienced racialized and gendered school environments, the interactions that shaped their experiences, and how they situated their own hopes and dreams within that context. The conceptual framework draws on critical race theory, Latinx critical theory, and community cultural wealth theory to understand how underrepresented students, in this case Latina students, are marginalized within their academic setting. It also recognizes the impossibility of separating the intersectionality of race, class, gender, immigration, and sexuality when students have multiple pieces to their identity, as was true with the participants. The literature review discusses the educational pipeline for Latina students, effects of racialized and gendered school climates, and how schooling experiences shape Latinas postsecondary pathways. The first finding, which addressed the first research question, was that Latina students perceived that given their race and gender they received poor and inferior academic preparation and few school support services throughout their high school years. For a few participants this led to school disengagement. As Latinxs attending lower performing schools, they felt that teachers, counselors, and volunteers sent signals to them that they were not as smart as White and Asian students, were not college-going material, and were destined to become young mothers who did not want to further their education. Often these messages also included negative statements about newcomer students, indicating that they were not welcome in this country. These impressions led participants to lack trust in adults at school. Their gendered experiences focused on signals by teachers that they were being easier on them because they were girls. They also dealt with intense "toxic masculinity" among their male peers that questioned their intelligence, made them feel unsafe at school, and hindered their desire to speak up and fully participate in class. Together, these experiences created toxic school climates. The second major finding, addressing the second research question, was that it appears that the racialized and gendered school experiences do influence how participants thought about their postsecondary opportunities. With limited college counseling and weaker adult-student relationships, there seemed to be fewer people whom the students could connect with about their plans and what to do during their high school years to prepare. Several of the participants received consistent messages that they were not smart enough for college and could not afford college. This ultimately led to thinking that college was not a viable option after high school. These messages were compounded both at school and at home through stereotypical assumptions and conversations that presumed Latinas would become mothers and only need to know how to take care of a family. The third major finding, also addressing the second research question, was that regardless of the racial and gendered challenges participants faced, they spoke of their aspirations for a better future with greater opportunities. They were resisting and wanted to continue to resist the stereotypes placed on them as Latinas. They wanted to have professional careers and be able to support themselves and, if they wanted them, their families. They did not want to have lives that waited for men to take care of them. They wanted to move to "better" neighborhoods and knew that having an education was an important step to achieve their goals. They were clear about what holds them back and spoke to the aspirational, navigation, and resistance capital that allowed them to make sense of their experiences while trying to drive them toward a future they desired. The final chapter outlines the implications of this research study on policy, practice, and future inquiry. There is increased interest about the importance of school climate from an equity and inclusion standpoint in the education field. The policy, practice, and research implications provide opportunity to deepen work in this emerging area.
Download or read book The Magic Key written by Ruth Enid Zambrana and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexican Americans comprise the largest subgroup of Latina/os, and their path to education can be a difficult one. Yet just as this group is often marginalized, so are their stories, and relatively few studies have chronicled the educational trajectory of Mexican American men and women. In this interdisciplinary collection, editors Zambrana and Hurtado have brought together research studies that reveal new ways to understand how and why members of this subgroup have succeeded and how the facilitators of success in higher education have changed or remained the same. The Magic Key’s four sections explain the context of Mexican American higher education issues, provide conceptual understandings, explore contemporary college experiences, and offer implications for educational policy and future practices. Using historical and contemporary data as well as new conceptual apparatuses, the authors in this collection create a comparative, nuanced approach that brings Mexican Americans’ lived experiences into the dominant discourse of social science and education. This diverse set of studies presents both quantitative and qualitative data by gender to examine trends of generations of Mexican American college students, provides information on perceptions of welcoming university climates, and proffers insights on emergent issues in the field of higher education for this population. Professors and students across disciplines will find this volume indispensable for its insights on the Mexican American educational experience, both past and present.
Download or read book Reconsidering Feminist Research in Educational Leadership written by Michelle D. Young and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical reflection on the field of feminist research in educational leadership.
Download or read book Women Without Class written by Julie D. Haase and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narratives of Mexican American Women written by Alma M. García and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2004 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation "Alma M. Garcia offers an innovative interpretation of identity formation for second generation immigrants in America. The narratives of Mexican American women in higher education reveal their journeys of self-discovery and self-reflection, a process fille"
Download or read book Embodying the Transnational written by Caitlin O'Neill Gutierrez and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mexican American Women Dress and Gender written by Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexican American Women, Dress and Gender observes how Pachucas, Chicanas and Cholas have used their body image (dress, hairstyle and body language) as a political tool of deviation and attempts to measure the degree of intentionality in said oppositional stance.
Download or read book Sociological Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
Download or read book Embodying the Transnational written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Other Struggle for Equal Schools written by Rubén Donato and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1997-10-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the Mexican American struggle for equal education during the 1960s and 1970s in the Southwest in general and in a California community in particular, Donato challenges conventional wisdom that Mexican Americans were passive victims, accepting their educational fates. He looks at how Mexican American parents confronted the relative tranquility of school governance, how educators responded to increasing numbers of Mexican Americans in schools, how school officials viewed problems faced by Mexican American children, and why educators chose specific remedies. Finally, he examines how federal, state, and local educational policies corresponded with the desires of the Mexican American community.
Download or read book At a Loss written by Carlotta C. de Ortiz and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The depiction of women in Sandra Cisneros novel The House On Mango Street written by Bettina Nolde and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2003-04-27 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2 (B), University of Potsdam (Anglistics/ American Studies), course: Feminist Chicana Writing, language: English, abstract: Sandra Cisneros is one of the most popular feminist Chicana writers. She was born in Chicago in 1954 as the only daughter among six brothers of a Mexican – American mother and a Mexican father. In her early childhood the family moved a lot between Chicago and Mexico City, where her grandparents lived, so Cisneros never felt at home anywhere. Hence, she spent most of her time reading for the family’s mobility prevented the development of friendships. When she attended college in 1974 she started writing poetry and prose in a creative writing class. There she created a style of writing that was intentionally opposite to those of her classmates. After receiving her M.A. at the University of Iowa she worked in a Chicano barrio in Chicago teaching high school dropouts and later on as an administrative assistant at Loyola University Chicago. Today she lives in San Antonio and is working on a new novel. In the following the depiction of women in her novel “The House on Mango Street” will be examined. This novel consists of a series of vignettes describing the growing up of the young girl Esperanza in a barrio in Chicago as she herself reflects it with her youthful naivety. She characterises different people, particularly women respectively girls surrounding her in various situations and depicts the living conditions of the barrio in general. The different female characters appearing in the novel will be analysed in reference to their deprived situation concerning race, gender and class. To that end the author will initially give an insight into the image and role of women in the Mexican – American culture. Accordingly the analysis of the different characters acting in various situations against the background of this will follow. The literature used for this work is English as well as German whereas indirect quotations from the German literature will be translated with the knowledge of the author. Due to its limited extend the following work is not exhaustive.
Download or read book A Social Perspective of Literacy Through the Montage of Five Mexican Mexican American Women written by Susan Marie Rumann and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
