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Publication Date: 2020
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The Power of Testimonio Pedagogy: Teaching Chicana Lesbian Fiction in a Chicana Feminisms Course at a Predominantly White Institution in the Midwest
Diaz-Kozlowski, Tanya
Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, v14 n2 p124-144 2020
In this essay I extend Chicana/Latina feminist pedagogies to demonstrate using testimonio pedagogy to teach Chicana lesbian fiction: "Gulf Dreams" and "What Night Brings" opened up dialogical spaces for students as pensadores to critically examine the impact of racialized gender and sexual normativity within Chicano culture. Exploring the significance of students as pensadores using testimonio pedagogy cultivates pathways of epistemic disobedience that should be understood as responses to institutional power. I suggest testimonio pedagogy mediates marginalization by breaking down the false dichotomy between students and teachers, cultivates feminist consciousness-raising, and refuses hegemonic conceptualizations of schooling.
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Feminism, Gender Bias, Sexuality, Social Bias, Cultural Influences, Consciousness Raising, Fiction, Racial Bias
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