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The Lived Experiences of Chicana/Latina Student Mothers

Author : MyHanh Anderson (Graduate student)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Lived Experiences of Chicana/Latina Student Mothers written by MyHanh Anderson (Graduate student) and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Chicana/Latina student parents are an unrecognized and silenced group within community colleges. Using interviews as a vessel for testimonios, this study examines the lessons learned from mothering by ten Chicana/Latina student mothers on their journey of academic achievement at the community college. Using Chicana feminist theory and Chicana M(other)work as theoretical and conceptual framework as lenses to understand the reality of Chicana/Latina student mothers. The student mother’s ability to balance and move in-between their Chicana/Latina, woman, mother, and student identities, along with lessons learned from mothering, provide motivation and persistence as they maneuver through the education system. Findings show that Chicana/Latina student mothers used the lessons from mothering; the value of hard work, making a home wherever you are, and the importance of adaptability as tools to attain academic goals in the pursuit for a better life for themselves and their children. Recommendations call for a federal increase in education funding; state level criteria changes to services supporting students with dependents as well as include student with dependents in all comprehensive data collection systems; and institutionally, create a more inclusive campus climate for students with dependents by recognizing their lived experiences, their testimonios.

The Chicana Motherwork Anthology

Author : Cecilia Caballero
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816539766
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Chicana Motherwork Anthology written by Cecilia Caballero and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chicana M(other)work Anthology weaves together emerging scholarship and testimonios by and about self-identified Chicana and Women of Color mother-scholars, activists, and allies who center mothering as transformative labor through an intersectional lens. Contributors provide narratives that make feminized labor visible and that prioritize collective action and holistic healing for mother-scholars of color, their children, and their communities within and outside academia. The volume is organized in four parts: (1) separation, migration, state violence, and detention; (2) Chicana/Latina/WOC mother-activists; (3) intergenerational mothering; and (4) loss, reproductive justice, and holistic pregnancy. Contributors offer a just framework for Chicana and Women of Color mother-scholars, activists, and allies to thrive within and outside of the academy. They describe a new interpretation of motherwork that addresses the layers of care work needed for collective resistance to structural oppression and inequality. This anthology is a call to action for justice. Contributions are both theoretical and epistemological, and they offer an understanding of motherwork through Chicana and Women of Color experiences.

Overcoming Barriers

Author : Sarina Mendoza Ramirez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Overcoming Barriers written by Sarina Mendoza Ramirez and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher education has gradually grown into a means of passage for upward social mobility, particularly for those who come from historically marginalized communities, such as first-generation, low-income, non-traditional, and minority college students. Latinas are the youngest, fastest growing subgroup in the nation encompassing 16% of the female population--and are the least educated (Castellanos, Gloria, & Kamimura, 2006; Motel & Patten, 2013). Latinas and other women of color "experience multiple marginality" and are often presented with additional layers of complexity in their day-to-day professional lives (Turner, 2002, p. 76). Challenges women encounter include balancing a job, a family, a career, and college responsibilities (Furst-Bowe & Dittmann, 2001; Kramarae, 2001). The point that echoes in research are the obstacles women find when they attempt dual social roles (Stalker, 2001). Research has determined success factors and barriers that first-generation Chicana/Latina women experience as students at higher education institutions as undergraduates. Studies have also identified specific barriers student mothers face as college students. However, research has yet to determine which specific barriers first generation Chicana/Latina student mothers experience in their first year of a graduate program, as well as investigate what strategies these women used to overcome those barriers. The study used a qualitative method to conduct research on first-generation Chicana/Latina student mothers who had completed their first year of a graduate program. A face-to-face interview was used with open-ended questions. Three students participated in the research. This research identified some of the shared challenges, characteristics, and experiences that first-generation Chicana/Latina mothers face during the first year of a graduate program while raising a child(ren), which were difficulty balancing multiple roles, issues with childcare, and encountering feelings of guilt. The research also identified motivational and success factors that helped this population of students persist successfully through their first year of a graduate program despite the challenges they encountered. Those motivational and success factors attributed to a strong family support system and positive self-affirmations.

De Tal Palo Tal Astilla: Exploring Mexicana/Chicana Mother-Daughter Pedagogies

Author : Alma Flores Flores
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book De Tal Palo Tal Astilla: Exploring Mexicana/Chicana Mother-Daughter Pedagogies written by Alma Flores Flores and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This qualitative dissertation examined the role that mothers play in the educational success of Mexicana/Chicana working-class first-generation college students. Research has shown that Mexicana/Chicana mothers are integral to the educational achievement of their daughters, however few studies have explained why, or outlined specifically what it is that they do to inculcate educational success (Gi ndara, 1982, 1995, Gi ndara et al., 2013). Using Chicana/Latina feminist theory (Delgado Bernal & Elenes, 2011), this study explored the teaching and learning practices between Mexicana/Chicana immigrant working-class mothers and their first-generation college daughters. I focused on 10 mother-daughter dyads from Los Angeles County. The majority of the mothers are immigrants from Mi xico with an average of an elementary school education. Nine of the daughters are enrolled in Ph.D. programs in LosAngeles and one is an assistant professor at a local university. I facilitated 30 pli ticas: 10 pli ticas with the mothers, 10 pli ticas with the daughters, and 10 mother-daughter pli ticas. Additionally, I conducted 18 home visits, collected photographs and personal items, and kept a journal for self-reflexivity. I analyzed the data using modified grounded theory (Calderon, 2008; Malagi n, Pi rez-Huber, & Velez, 2009) with a Chicana/Latina feminist sensibility to generate theory from their lived experiences. During my analysis, I recognized the ways systems of oppression impact the lives of Women of Color. When preliminary themes were identified, I shared them with the mothers and daughters in the mother-daughter pli ticas to discuss analysis, receive feedback, and engage in a collaborative data analysis process. Following this, I engaged in a final analysis stage where concluding themes were identified. My findings show that Mexicana/Chicana mothers use a pedagogy of the borderlands to raise muxeres truchas. A pedagogy of the borderlands encompasses the creative, defying, and empowering ways in which Mexicana/Chicana immigrant working-class mothers raise their daughters. It uses a bodymindspirit approach to instill a conocimiento of how to navigate, thrive in, and transform the physical and metaphorical borders that inform the everyday lives of Mexicanas/Chicanas. It is grounded in the epistemologies and ways of being of Mexicana/Chicana mothers and used to raise muxeres truchas. These are women who embody a unique form of intelligence of how to live in the world and transform it as Women of Color. Implications for this study point to the importance of improving the connection between Mexicana/Chicana mothers, daughters and schools, particularly for families of first-generation college students, reframing how we understand and measure success and achievement in schools, and the significance of continuing to develop Chicana/Latina feminist pedagogies and methodologies.

Chicana/Latina Education in Everyday Life

Author : Dolores Delgado Bernal
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791468050
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Chicana/Latina Education in Everyday Life written by Dolores Delgado Bernal and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2006-08-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first-of-its-kind volume bridges Chicana/Latina feminist perspectives with education and offers innovative ideas on teaching and learning, and ways of knowing.

Chicana/Latina Testimonios as Pedagogical, Methodological, and Activist Approaches to Social Justice

Author : Dolores Delgado Bernal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131733289X
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Chicana/Latina Testimonios as Pedagogical, Methodological, and Activist Approaches to Social Justice written by Dolores Delgado Bernal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the genre of testimonio has deep roots in oral cultures and in Latin American human rights struggles, the publication and subsequent adoption of This Bridge Called My Back (Moraga & Anzaldúa, 1983) and, more recently, Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios (Latina Feminist Group, 2001), have demonstrated the power of testimonio as a genre that exposes brutality, disrupts silencing, and builds solidarity among women of colour. Within the field of education, scholars are increasingly taking up testimonio as a pedagogical, methodological, and activist approach to social justice, which transgresses traditional paradigms in academia. Unlike the more usual approach of researchers producing unbiased knowledge, the testimonio challenges objectivity by situating the individual in communion with a collective experience marked by marginalization, oppression, or resistance. This approach has resulted in new understandings about how marginalized communities build solidarity, and respond to and resist dominant culture, laws, and policies that perpetuate inequity. This book contributes to our understanding of testimonio as it relates to methodology, pedagogy, research, and reflection in pursuit of social justice. A common thread among the chapters is a sense of political urgency to address inequities within Chicana/o and Latina/o communities. This book was originally published as a special issue of Equity & Excellence in Education.

Mothers in Academia

Author : Maria Castaneda
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231160054
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Mothers in Academia written by Maria Castaneda and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring forthright testimonials by women who are or have been mothers as undergraduates, graduate students, academic staff, administrators, and professors, Mothers in Academia intimately portrays the experiences of women at various stages of motherhood while theoretically and empirically considering the conditions of working motherhood as academic life has become more laborious. As higher learning institutions have moved toward more corporate-based models of teaching, immense structural and cultural changes have transformed women's academic lives and, by extension, their families. Hoping to push reform as well as build recognition and a sense of community, this collection offers several potential solutions for integrating female scholars more wholly into academic life. Essays also reveal the often stark differences between women's encounters with the academy and the disparities among various ranks of women working in academia. Contributors--including many women of color--call attention to tokenism, scarce valuable networks, and the persistent burden to prove academic credentials. They also explore gendered parenting within the contexts of colonialism, racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, ageism, and heterosexism.

Chicana/Latina Education in Everyday Life

Author : Dolores Delgado Bernal
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791481514
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Chicana/Latina Education in Everyday Life written by Dolores Delgado Bernal and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2006-08-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first-of-its-kind volume bridges Chicana/Latina feminist perspectives with education and offers innovative ideas on teaching and learning, and ways of knowing. This groundbreaking volume explores both Chicana/Latina feminist definitions of teaching and learning, and ways of knowing in education. The book’s contributors—Chicana/Latina feminist scholars—reinterpret the field of education as inter- and transdisciplinary and connected to ethnic, racial, and womanist scholarship. They examine mujer- (women-) centered definitions of pedagogy and epistemology rooted in Chicana/Latina theories and visions of life, family, community, and world. Armed with the tools of Chicana/Latina feminist thought, the contributors link cultural studies theories to critical/feminist pedagogies by re-envisioning the sites of pedagogy to include women’s brown bodies and their agency. 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.

Surviving the System

Author : Maricela Teresa DeMirjyn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780542332739
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Surviving the System written by Maricela Teresa DeMirjyn and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study addressed the retention of Chicana/Latina undergraduates within the university system. The problem explored was (a) how these women perceive campus climate as members of a marginalized ethnic/racial student population; and (b) which strategies are used as ways of "surviving the system," specifically focusing on forms of social/cultural capital. As a qualitative study, this work was guided by a confluence of methods, including grounded theory, phenomenology, and Chicana epistemology using educational narratives or life stories as data. The analysis indicated that Chicanas/Latinas do maintain a sense of being an ethnic/racial "Other" throughout their college experiences and this self-identity is perceived as a benefit or as a "survival strategy" while attending a culturally mainstream campus. Further analysis also showed that Chicana/Latina undergraduates begin their college careers with social/cultural capital in a variety of forms, such as social networks, and that their awareness of their social/cultural capital grows during their stay at the university. This study demonstrated that an assimilationist model is not the best model to promote academic achievement for marginalized student groups; rather, that ethnic/racial identification may be an essential key to scholastic success.

"Our Stories Are More Powerful Together, Than They Are Apart"

Author : Cindy Raquel Escobedo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book "Our Stories Are More Powerful Together, Than They Are Apart" written by Cindy Raquel Escobedo and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation tells a story about raced and gendered socialization processes that develop across generations, among a distinct yet growing population: Chicana/Latina mothers and daughters who attend U.S. colleges and universities at the same time. Specifically, I analyze how nine mother-daughter teams (22 women in total) leverage their carework to facilitate their individual and collective movement through U.S. higher education spaces over a 50-year span. The study's qualitative, phenomenological design employs individual and group pl ticas (Fierros & Delgado Bernal, 2016) and a qualitative methodology I am developing, the Critical Race Feminista Epistolary Methodology (CRFEM) (Escobedo & Camargo Gonzalez, under review). By triangulating 42 letters, 17 individual and 7 group pláticas, and reflexive journal materials, I inquire: (a) What are the raced, gendered, classed, individual, and joint experiences of Chicana/Latina motherscholars and daughterscholars who attended college between the 1970s and 2020s? and (b) What are the pedagogies the motherscholars and daughterscholars developed and imparted to one another as they navigated higher education? Several findings stand out in the Motherscholar-Daughterscholar Educational Birthstory. First, this research designates the 1970s as the Chicana/Latina motherscholar-daughterscholar point of genesis, and it names the de Uriarte family as pioneers who initiated the birth of the Chicana/Latina motherscholar-daughterscholar phenomena in the U.S. Findings further indicate that Chicana/Latina motherscholars and daughterscholars have historically endured challenges such as internalizing and responding to racial and maternal microaggressions (Sol rzano & Perez Huber, 2020; Vega, 2019) and struggling to balance academic and domestic demands. In spite of these hurdles, the women traversed the terrains of motherhood, daughterhood, and scholarhood by intentionally engaging in care practices that nurtured their spiritual, physical, and interpersonal wellbeing, practices I have termed Chicana/Latina daughterwork and Chicana/Latina motherwork (Caballero et al., 2017; Collins, 2009). By leveraging their motherwork and daughterwork, the women developed motherscholar-daughterscholar pedagogies. I contend, motherscholar-daughterscholar pedagogies are a microaffirmative (Sol rzano & P rez Huber, 2020) socialization tool that Women of Color draw on to facilitate their physical, emotional, spiritual, and academic wellbeing. In addition to complicating the discourse on Chicana/Latina education, this research contributes to a (limited, yet) growing archive of Chicana/Latina educational history.

Telling to Live

Author : Latina Feminist Group,
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822383284
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Telling to Live written by Latina Feminist Group, and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-18 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telling to Live embodies the vision that compelled Latina feminists to engage their differences and find common ground. Its contributors reflect varied class, religious, ethnic, racial, linguistic, sexual, and national backgrounds. Yet in one way or another they are all professional producers of testimonios—or life stories—whether as poets, oral historians, literary scholars, ethnographers, or psychologists. Through coalitional politics, these women have forged feminist political stances about generating knowledge through experience. Reclaiming testimonio as a tool for understanding the complexities of Latina identity, they compare how each made the journey to become credentialed creative thinkers and writers. Telling to Live unleashes the clarifying power of sharing these stories. The complex and rich tapestry of narratives that comprises this book introduces us to an intergenerational group of Latina women who negotiate their place in U.S. society at the cusp of the twenty-first century. These are the stories of women who struggled to reach the echelons of higher education, often against great odds, and constructed relationships of sustenance and creativity along the way. The stories, poetry, memoirs, and reflections of this diverse group of Puerto Rican, Chicana, Native American, Mexican, Cuban, Dominican, Sephardic, mixed-heritage, and Central American women provide new perspectives on feminist theorizing, perspectives located in the borderlands of Latino cultures. This often heart wrenching, sometimes playful, yet always insightful collection will interest those who wish to understand the challenges U.S. society poses for women of complex cultural heritages who strive to carve out their own spaces in the ivory tower. Contributors. Luz del Alba Acevedo, Norma Alarcón, Celia Alvarez, Ruth Behar, Rina Benmayor, Norma E. Cantú, Daisy Cocco De Filippis, Gloria Holguín Cuádraz, Liza Fiol-Matta, Yvette Flores-Ortiz, Inés Hernández-Avila, Aurora Levins Morales, Clara Lomas, Iris Ofelia López, Mirtha N. Quintanales, Eliana Rivero, Caridad Souza, Patricia Zavella

Chicana/Latina Testimonios as Pedagogical, Methodological, and Activist Approaches to Social Justice

Author : Dolores Delgado Bernal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317332903
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Chicana/Latina Testimonios as Pedagogical, Methodological, and Activist Approaches to Social Justice written by Dolores Delgado Bernal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the genre of testimonio has deep roots in oral cultures and in Latin American human rights struggles, the publication and subsequent adoption of This Bridge Called My Back (Moraga & Anzaldúa, 1983) and, more recently, Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios (Latina Feminist Group, 2001), have demonstrated the power of testimonio as a genre that exposes brutality, disrupts silencing, and builds solidarity among women of colour. Within the field of education, scholars are increasingly taking up testimonio as a pedagogical, methodological, and activist approach to social justice, which transgresses traditional paradigms in academia. Unlike the more usual approach of researchers producing unbiased knowledge, the testimonio challenges objectivity by situating the individual in communion with a collective experience marked by marginalization, oppression, or resistance. This approach has resulted in new understandings about how marginalized communities build solidarity, and respond to and resist dominant culture, laws, and policies that perpetuate inequity. This book contributes to our understanding of testimonio as it relates to methodology, pedagogy, research, and reflection in pursuit of social justice. A common thread among the chapters is a sense of political urgency to address inequities within Chicana/o and Latina/o communities. This book was originally published as a special issue of Equity & Excellence in Education.

Our Mother's Daughters

Author : Lisette J. Lasater
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Our Mother's Daughters written by Lisette J. Lasater and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attention to family relationships in work by Chicanas and Latinas reveals mothers as paramount figures to a daughter's identity formation. Mothers may serve as gatekeepers of patriarchy and also as a daughter's closest female role model--as a result, mother-daughter relationships may also be source of deep ambivalence. The literary and cultural study I undertake in this dissertation examines how Chicanas and Latinas find their voice through asking difficult questions of both their mothers and of the institutions that guide them. The primary texts I examine are foundational to the development of Chicana literature, feminism, and cultural criticism since the 1980's, and take into account a spectrum of mother/daughter experiences. This work considers how daughters discover their voice through and against their mothers, and how self-expression on the page and on the cultural stage are necessary sites for creation and articulation of a daughter's agency.

Mothers United

Author : Andrea Dyrness
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452930376
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Mothers United written by Andrea Dyrness and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In urban American school systems, the children of recent immigrants and low-income parents of color disproportionately suffer from overcrowded classrooms, lack of access to educational resources, and underqualified teachers. The challenges posed by these problems demand creative solutions that must often begin with parental intervention. But how can parents without college educations, American citizenship, English literacy skills, or economic stability organize to initiate change on behalf of their children and their community? In Mothers United, Andrea Dyrness chronicles the experiences of five Latina immigrant mothers in Oakland, California—one of the most troubled urban school districts in the country—as they become informed and engaged advocates for their children’s education. These women, who called themselves “Madres Unidas” (“Mothers United”), joined a neighborhood group of teachers and parents to plan a new, small, and autonomous neighborhood-based school to replace the overcrowded Whitman School. Collaborating with the author, among others, to conduct interviews and focus groups with teachers, parents, and students, these mothers moved from isolation and marginality to take on unfamiliar roles as researchers and community activists while facing resistance from within the local school district. Mothers United illuminates the mothers’ journey to create their own space—centered around the kitchen table—that enhanced their capacity to improve their children’s lives. At the same time, Dyrness critiques how community organizers, teachers, and educational policy makers, despite their democratic rhetoric, repeatedly asserted their right as “experts,” reproducing the injustice they hoped to overcome. A powerful, inspiring story about self-learning, consciousness-raising, and empowerment, Mothers United offers important lessons for school reform movements everywhere.

Igualita Que Su Madre: A Study on the Educational Journey of First-Generation Latina College Graduates and the Support Roles of Their Immigrant Mothers

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Author : Elisa Perez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Igualita Que Su Madre: A Study on the Educational Journey of First-Generation Latina College Graduates and the Support Roles of Their Immigrant Mothers written by Elisa Perez and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This qualitative study examined the academic relationship between first-generation Latina college graduates and their immigrant mothers. Research shows that Latinas are the fastest growing ethnic minority in the country, and by 2060 will account for nearly a third of the total female population in the United States (Gandara, 2015). Although the literature suggests that Latinas are outperforming Latinos academically (Bukoski & Hatch, 2016; Riegle-Crumb, 2010; Saenz & Ponjuan, 2009, 2011), Latinas still require educational support in order to succeed during their educational trajectories (Beltri n & NCLR, 2011). Using Chicana/Latina feminist theory (Villenas, Godinez, Bernal, & Elenes, 2006), this study explored how first-generation Latina college graduates viewed their educational journey and how their immigrant mothers supported them throughout the process. Specifically, this study examined the individual stories of both the mothers and their daughters using pli ticas (friendly and relaxed conversations). The research design consisted of two semi-structured interviews with each individual participant. Findings were then organized around five themes: (a) Stories of Struggle, (b) Unconditional Support, (c) Additional Academic Support Outside of the Family, (d) College Persistence, and (e) They Just Don't Get It. The findings of the study revealed that although the immigrant mothers in this study lacked a formal education, they still did what they physically could to support their daughters and their academic careers. In addition, the data also showed that the first-generation Latina college graduates in this study understood their mothers could not help them when it came to completing math homework, writing an essay, or applying to college; so, they sought outside support to fill this void. All the college graduates in the study claimed that they had additional help from either mentors, teachers, or outside pre-college programs throughout middle school or high school. According to the college graduates, this outside support was crucial in understanding the significance of applying to and going to college. For the first-generation Latina students in this study, their concern was not lacking the motivation to go to college, their problem was not having the requisite resources, exposure, and support. Although their mothers wanted their daughters to go to college, they did not have the knowledge or expertise to help them do so. The findings from this study suggest that schools, communities, and families need to develop meaningful and purposeful partnerships to better support first- generation Latinas. Recommendations for practice consist of schools and communities supporting first-generation Latina students through: parental engagement, providing access to mentors and pre-college program opportunities, and developing a systemic approach in easing the transition from high school to college.

Strolling and Straddling Academic Boundaries: Chicana, Latina, and Indigenous Motherscholars in the Academy

Author : Christine Vega
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Strolling and Straddling Academic Boundaries: Chicana, Latina, and Indigenous Motherscholars in the Academy written by Christine Vega and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My research study reveals the racial, gender, and maternal experiences among nine first-generation Chicana, Latina, and Indigenous Motherscholars enrolled in Ph.D. programs in U.S. Southwest Universities. Nationally Latina, Chicana, and Indigenous women are less likely to complete post-secondary degrees. Further, academic mothers with children under five years of age, pursuing professorate positions, are less likely to receive tenure. Through an ethnographic research approach and in-depth interviews, my research agenda captured the following: (a) Educational trajectories and the interventions of femtors/mentors and Ethnic and Gender studies; (b) Negotiations in navigating higher education and family formation as everyday movidas, or hustles; (c) Naming and addressing marginality and microaggressions as Maternal Microaggressions; and (d) Spiritual activism(s)--in multiple manifestations--as resilience, resistance, and survivance in the home and academia. Although my findings reiterate painful stories of "push-out" culture grounded in gender-racial discrimination, the narratives are challenged by Motherscholar resilience, survivance, and resistance. I draw from Critical Race Theory in Educational Methodology (Solórzano & Yosso, 2002), Chicana Feminist Theories (Delgado Bernal, Elenes, Godinez, & Villenas, 2006), and Critical Maternal Theories to identify and analyze the social condition and oppression of doctoral Motherscholars at the complex intersections of identity, education, and family. To honor the complex intersections of race, class, gender, and motherhood (amongst others) in the liminal spaces of education and motherhood, I offer a Critical Maternalista Matrix as theoretical and methodological approach.

12 Ways to Cope with Your Latina Mom and Her Difficulties

Author : Jasmine Cepeda
Publisher : Jasmine Cepeda
ISBN 13 : 9781704366791
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (667 download)

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Book Synopsis 12 Ways to Cope with Your Latina Mom and Her Difficulties by : Jasmine Cepeda

Download or read book 12 Ways to Cope with Your Latina Mom and Her Difficulties written by Jasmine Cepeda and published by Jasmine Cepeda. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a Psychotherapist raised and still living in the diverse mega-city that is NYC, I have helped hundreds of women from all races, ethnicities, and cultures cope with their distressing feelings and thoughts about their mothers. However, what makes me especially inclined to write about the nuanced difficulties of Latina mothers is my experience in facilitating groups with Latinx individuals (gender-neutral term for Latinas and Latinos) struggling with their mothers. Being involved in these groups has brought clarity to the similar and overarching complaints that many Latinx folks experience.The guide intends to help you explore the psychological consequences of having a mother with difficult behaviors. I also want to help you set boundaries and act towards your self-validation and self-protection. I want to help you remother (or reparent) yourself--to help you build your self-reliance, self-worth, and self-compassion. By building a better relationship with yourself, I also want to assist you in creating better relationships with others: whether it's in your friendships, romantic partnerships, or as a parent!Regarding the title of this project: I do not want to promote a false narrative that Latina moms are inherently "difficult" or all the same. Hence, I describe some of their behaviors and personality traits as "difficult," not who they are.I dedicate this guide to my Latinx community!Jasmine Cepeda is a Latinx psychotherapist working in private practice in Brooklyn.