Río Bravo: A Journal of the Borderlands
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El Corrido de La Redada de los “41 Maricones”: Decolonizing El Porfiriato and its Queer Signifier
Get PDFThe purpose of this article is to critically examine the story of the number 41 as a queer signifier in Mexican culture from a decolonial perspective, taking into account archival records in the development of hegemonic masculinity in the 20th century. An examination of hegemonic masculinity and homophobia of early 20th century Mexico is provided by reviewing colonial accounts of indigenous sexuality, as well as uncovering the hidden stories of the corrido/ballad of El Baile de los 41 Maricones. The corrido was used as satire to ridicule the homosexual practices by the bourgeoisie, creating a rift between social classes, and allowing the poor to take a higher ground by claiming real masculinity
Hampering the Dogmatization Within the System by Building an Itinerant Practice in Bilingual Education and Dual-Language Programs
Get PDFThis paper focuses on dual-language programs and the transformation of implementation through the lens of Itinerant Curriculum Theory (ICT), curricularized language, and personal pedagogies, and how it impacts the way educators work within a dual-language program. The pedagogies of educator practices and influences included individuals with different ideologies, education, experience, distinct backgrounds, methods, and aspirations were part of the interactive mechanisms and educator practices that were analyzed. Thus, it concludes that the mindset and pedagogical approach affects the implementation of any program or model and shows how disparate agendas shape the program, its implementation, and the effect on the child
Tales of an academic immigrant: An autoethnographic account
Get PDFI’ve struggled for quite a bit with my urge and reluctance to write about my experiences as an immigrant in the south and how they shifted when I came to the northeast. I am working within the resistance to better understand my self and positionalities within and outside of the social, cultural, and political context of the academe, both as a graduate student and now as a faculty member. I have been compelled to work on this piece with the hope that the process helps me theorize and understand what it means to be [perceived] as a racialized woman. I theorize the possibilities that spaces create for me (or any other person) to freely express the self, to be/come and grow, or the constraints such spaces could impose that erase and silence us
Tierra, Sangre y Resistencia
Get PDFFor myself, art has been a way to explore my Chicanx realism a la Cheri Moraga. There are so many conflicting emotions I have experienced as a mestiza indigenous brown individual living on the borderlands. I have lived with much rage, having survived the colorism within my own family, the racism from both lands of the North and South, and the identity crisis that comes with learning to accept myself as de-tribalized and indigenous in a country which refuses to accept that we are natives and not immigrants.My contribution to this issue is a painting for the issue’s cover titled “Tierra, Sangre y Resistencia” (acrylic, 26x30) which represents violence, survival, and resistance
La Gente de Agua: Intersectional Metaphors of Identity and Resistance
Get PDFBerre: “Nombre, pinche Americana, no sabe!” And I didn’t know, because it had taken a long time not to be mad at not being able to pronounce words properly or using my translanguaging skills to create words in Spanish. Playing with cousins in Mexico was fun but challenging. They weren’t always the kindest or showed compassion. It was I who was living in the U.S. after all. The expectation was not to speak Spanglish. The idea that Spanish should be pure and learned properly kept being yelled at me when I didn’t understand the double-meanings and certain humor
Science Para El Barrio
Get PDFI am the son of my mother. My mother, among many other attributes, is a protector of earth. I am a science educator. While growing up in NorthEast Los Angeles, my mother taught me science. She did not sit me at a desk and lecture me, she showed me. She did not deposit knowledge for memorization, rather she engaged me in practice. She is a healer, she is a chemist, she is a physicist, she is a botanist, she is a biologist. My mother only completed three years of formal education. From a western perspective of education this might mean that she is illiterate and does not possess the adequate qualification to be considered a knowledgeable individual. That belief however, is wrong. It is a byproduct of a mindset within a colonial framework. That belief is a byproduct of colonization. Colonization is a violent, insidious process that harms everything it touches. Present conditions for what is considered valid knowledge are not natural, but unnatural and built on the belief that certain knowledge is valuable and other knowledge is not
EntreMundos/Criss-Crossing Early Childhood Ecological Pedagogy(ies) with Nagualismo as Embodied Inquiry
Get PDFThe author identifies as a mixed-race early childhood teacher educator, bridging ecology, culture, and learning situated within a university early learning center located on the unceded territories of Multnomah, Clackamas, Willamette, Chinook, Klickitat, Klamath, Cowlitz and other native bands of the Columbia River. Her pedagogical documentation of critical emergent curriculum is inspired by the United Nation’s call for early childhood educators to re-orientate pedagogical approaches with an image of the child as a global ecological citizen. This interdisciplinary inquiry crisscrosses between UN Global Goals, Remida philosophy, and post humanist pedagogies while centering Gloria Anzaldúa’s (2015) Naguala or shapeshifter metaphor for embodied inquiry. In this investigation, neoliberal interpretations of emergent curriculum are interrupted by drawing on experiences of "pedagogically cultivating conditions of emergence" (Nxumalo et al. 2018, 435) with the creation of an “otherwise” curriculum in an inclusive preschool classroom. Nagualismo as more-than-human theory engages Mexica cosmology in reversing environmental degradation with sustainable consumption and production patterns and becomes deeply embodied by an emergent bilingual child who creatively reimagines the language of his body as shapeshifting into a metal recycler
Telarañas: Untangling My Pain
Get PDFThis is an exorcism, a purging exercise that presents me with the opportunity to make sense of a thirty-year-old lingering pain. It started with mother sharing the news that we were in the United States, to stay. That decision affected my relationship with both my parents and my sisters. We don’t share our feelings, memories, or experiences. Now, we are not on amicable terms, which is collateral damage caused by the move
Complicating Space: Exploring Lugones as An Odawa Native
Get PDFGrowing up, I clearly understood my connection to indigeneity and being Odawa Native
Testimonio of Cultural Homelessness: Finding Flow and Harmony in Nepantla
Get PDFThe current racial pandemic has triggered some painful memories, not only racialized trauma, but specifically of intracultural division within my own ethnic group