ERIC Number: EJ1218757
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 24
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ISSN: EISSN-2377-9187
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Aprendiendo y Sobresaliendo: Resilient Indigeneity & Yucatec-Maya Youth
Casanova, Saskias
Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, v13 n2 p42-65 2019
Relatively little research has focused on the experiences of students and families of Yucatec-Maya origin in the U.S., and even less has focused on Yucatec-Maya youth and resilience, a normative process of positive adaptation despite exposure to adversity. Using Critical Latinx Indigeneities, which centers on Indigeneity across multi-national spaces, sociohistorical colonialities, and migrations, this study examines how Indigenous identity, familial linguistic and cultural practices, and resilience processes relate to one another for 10 (three girls) California-based Yucatec-Maya students. Through interview data, the themes that emerge expose discrimination as one form of adversity Yucatec-Maya students experience. There are three overarching themes related to the students' collective resilience process and the emergence of resilient Indigenous identities: 1) their lived, linguistic, familial, and community-based experiences; 2) familial support and academic resilience; and 3) transformational welcoming spaces. These protective processes contribute to the students' agency in [re]defining their resilient Indigenous identities in the U.S.
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Youth, Resilience (Psychology), Acculturation, Family Influence, Identification (Psychology), Cultural Influences, Immigrants, Females, Racial Discrimination, Maya (People), Mexican Americans, Stress Variables, Stress Management, High School Students, Mayan Languages, Language Usage, Language Maintenance, Student Attitudes
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California
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