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Ana Lopez – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study addresses common assumptions about women of the borderlands while embracing a transformative consciousness in understanding, making, and reclaiming the meaning of citizenship for Mexican American women from the Rio Grande Valley. This critical ethnography recognizes Chicana Feminist epistemologies as a form of knowledge. Therefore, this…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Hispanic Americans, Females, Epistemology
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Cervantes-Soon, Claudia G. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2012
This article presents the "testimonios" of two high school girls coming of age in one of the most marginalized areas of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico who attend a school with a critical pedagogy orientation (Freire, 1970). Ciudad Juarez is a city on the U.S-Mexico border and considered one of the most violent in the world today. These…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Females, Foreign Countries, High School Students
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Torres, Vasti – Journal of College Student Development, 2006
This study presents the conceptualization and subsequent model fit analysis of a retention model for Latino/a students at urban commuter universities. The three institutions involved in the study represent different environments for Latino/a students. Two are Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) and the third represents a predominantly White…
Descriptors: Urban Universities, Structural Equation Models, Hispanic American Students, Whites