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Vélez, Ángel L. – Educational Policy, 2022
This research study focuses on how the racialized experiences of second-generation Puerto Rican student activists in Chicago during the social movement era increased their political identity to demand structural changes in secondary and college contexts. Drawing from over a dozen interviews and 100 source materials, this research uncovers the…
Descriptors: College Students, Latin Americans, Hispanic American Students, Activism
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Ortiz-Loyola, Brenda – Hispania, 2017
Historically, black women's hair has been a site where power and social relations are defined. In Puerto Rico, cultural production has been critical in perpetuating as well as in contesting the prevailing white European ideal of beauty and its impact on women's hairstyling practices. Nevertheless, the link between aesthetic preferences and the…
Descriptors: Race, Novels, Physical Characteristics, Spanish
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Gonzalez, Mirerza; Rios-Villarini, Nadjah – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2012
This article follows a research project that collects oral histories of bilingual education teachers from Puerto Rico who migrated to the US Virgin Islands in the late twentieth century. The teachers' oral histories are used as a case study that provides in-depth analysis of competing discourses related to education and globalization in these two…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Bilingual Education, Foreign Countries, Migration