ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the main concepts informing pedagogy of the flesh and explains the Latina/o Foundations course. It discusses specific class situations that illustrate how students responded to this pedagogy of the flesh, and offers authors own observations regarding educational practice. The chapter also discusses thus far illustrate the ways in which this pedagogy of the flesh empowered white women and minoritized men and women at a predominantly white institutions (PWI) to challenge patriarchal colonialist ideologies oppressing them as they learned about Latina feminisms. Sharing their thoughts and personal experiences as they learned about Latina feminisms, author's pedagogy of the flesh helped students to better understand the import of feminisms in its plural form, and the methods with which to censure Eurocentric constructions of identity categories and patriarchal colonial hegemonic ideologies. Bearing witness to the experiences of others, then, students were able to discern the impact of testimonio in their own learning processes and the articulation of situated knowledges.
