Denise Segura Segura refl ects on the trials of advancing as one of the few University of California Chicana scholars, beginning in the late 1980s. She explores the choices and consequences of valuing public sociology, and balancing her life as a mother, feminist scholar and community organizer. Segura describes the importance of a feminist borderlands consciousness, and discusses how the projects she works on are informed by personal experiences, as well as by larger social realities

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Denise Segura Segura refl ects on the trials of advancing as one of the few University of California Chicana scholars, beginning in the late 1980s. She explores the choices and consequences of valuing public sociology, and balancing her life as a mother, feminist scholar and community organizer. Segura describes the importance of a feminist borderlands consciousness, and discusses how the projects she works on are informed by personal experiences, as well as by larger social realities