ABSTRACT

Drawing on critical and sociocultural frameworks, this volume presents narrative studies by or about Latinas in which they speak up about issues of identity and education. Using narratives, self-identification stories, and testimonios as theory, methodology, and advocacy, this volume brings together a wide range of Latinx perspectives on education identity, bilingualism, and belonging. The narratives illustrate the various ways erasure and human agency shape the lives and identities of Latinas in the United States from primary school to higher education and beyond, in their schools and communities. Contributors explore how schools and educational institutions can support student agency by adopting a transformative activist stance through curricula, learning contexts, and policies. Chapters contain implications for teaching and come together to showcase the importance of explicit activist efforts to combat erasure and engage in transformative and emancipatory education.

chapter 1|23 pages

Narrating Erasure, Narrating Agency

Towards a Transformative Activist

part I|75 pages

Mobilizing Funds of Knowledge and Funds of Identities

chapter 2|16 pages

Soy Un Amasamiento

A Critical Self-Narrative on Latina Identity Development

chapter 3|19 pages

Growing Old/Growing Up Gringa

Negotiating Puertorriqueñidad and Americanism in the Midwest

chapter 4|20 pages

Armonía Con Una Palita De Conflicto

A ‘Latino’ Relationship as Intercultural

part II|54 pages

Mobilizing Places and VoiceAuthoring Linguistic and Academic Identities

chapter 6|17 pages

Reclaiming La Lengua

A Self-Narrative on Language Loss, Learning, and Identity

chapter 7|18 pages

It Takes a Village

Advocating for a Bilingual Student with Dis/Abilities

part III|77 pages

Mobilizing Networks of SolidarityCreating Spaces for Agency

chapter 9|17 pages

Fill a Void to Create New Space

The Narrative and Counternarratives of Zoraida Lopez

chapter 10|17 pages

Transgressing Pedagogical Borders of Oppression

A Poblana Mexicana Indígena-Migrante Praxis

chapter 11|37 pages

Narratives as Tools for Agency

Teachers and Students as Activists

chapter |4 pages

Afterword

To Defy Erasure…