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Mercedes Valenzuela – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This qualitative case study used practitioner research methods to address the question: How does a Mexican American teacher create counter-hegemonic spaces in a Spanish Language Arts classroom utilizing critical race and borderlands theories? The research focused on how I as a teacher-built trust and respect through "place"--here, the…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Arts, Mexican Americans, Mexican American Education
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Alemán, Sonya M.; Bahena, Sofia; Alemán, Enrique, Jr. – Teachers College Record, 2022
Background/Context: Since 2005, critical race theory (CRT) scholars have crafted educational pipelines that compare educational attainment across racial groups in the United States. These visual models offer concise pictorial narratives about the discrepancies that fall along racial lines, particularly the underperformance of Chicana/o/x students…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Critical Race Theory, Heuristics, Educational Attainment
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Johanek, Michael – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2023
Since 1980, Chicago's United Neighborhood Organization (UNO) has been a major player in school reform, organising Mexican-American communities to build a neighbourhood high school, founding a local technical institute, passing radical school governance reform, and launching a major charter network. At UNO's apex in 2013, a corruption scandal…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Social Justice, Social Action, Mexican Americans
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Borunda, Rose; Martinez, Lorena Magdalena – Contemporary School Psychology, 2020
The historical mistreatment of Xicanx (pronounced CHEE or SHE-canx) communities is rooted in nativism and white supremacist ideology that is inextricably linked to the conquest of the Americas and the creation of the United States. The subsequent multiple demonizing forces and ideology emanating from these origins have resulted in quantifiable…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Mexican American Education, Social Bias, Youth
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Puente, Josué; Alvarez, Stephanie – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2021
This essay recounts the efforts by various groups throughout Texas with a special emphasis on the Rio Grande Valley to implement Mexican American Studies at the turn of the twenty-first century. We offer a historical timeline of events that demonstrates how the Mexican American Studies course came into existence. We also detail the way in which…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Ethnic Studies, Mexican American Education, Program Implementation
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De La Trinidad, Maritza; Alvarez, Stephanie; Esquierdo, Joy; Guajardo, Francisco – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2021
This essay contributes to the growing literature on Mexican American Studies in K-12 within the broader field of Ethnic Studies. While most of the literature on the movement for Ethnic Studies within Texas and across the nation mainly focuses on the impact of Ethnic Studies courses on students' academic success, this essay highlights a…
Descriptors: Mexican American Education, Curriculum Implementation, Elementary Secondary Education, Social Studies
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Alemán, Sonya – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2023
Educational narratives written by several cohorts of Latina/o/x students in a college-level ethnic studies course, first-year retention program showed how the current hegemonic educational paradigm--with its attendant neo-liberal, colonial, white supremacist and Eurocentric logics-- abates the accumulation and employment of community cultural…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, College Students, Public Colleges, First Generation College Students
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Cisneros, Nora Alba – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2018
In this article, the author presents an Indigenous Epistolary Methodology (IEM) to reflect on what it means for Indigenous women to engage the notion of refusal in traditional writing methods and qualitative research. The author proposes that an IEM, nestled within her familial genealogies, Indigenous Knowledges and Chicana Feminist Epistemology…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Resistance (Psychology), Womens Studies, Mothers
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Cruz, Rick A.; King, Kevin M.; Cauce, Ana M.; Conger, Rand D.; Robins, Richard W. – Child Development, 2017
Cultural adaptation may influence Latino youth substance use (SU) development, yet few longitudinal studies have examined cultural change over time and adolescent SU outcomes. Using longitudinal data collected annually across ages 10-16 from 674 Mexican-origin youth (50% female), the authors characterized cultural adaptation patterns for language…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Substance Abuse, Youth, Hispanic Americans
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Degollado, Enrique David; Bell, Randy; Harvey-Torres, Rosalyn – Teachers College Record, 2022
Background/Context: Historically, the literature on access to quality education for Mexican Americans has been wrought with injustices committed on them because of the racist and deficit thinking of the time. This includes, but is not limited to, access to literacy in English and Spanish. This article focuses on las escuelitas, or little schools,…
Descriptors: Spanish, Bilingualism, Literacy, Mexican Americans
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Gilliland, Betsy – L2 Journal, 2018
Ivan (pseudonym), the son of Mexican migrant farmworkers, rarely spent more than six months in the same school and by high school was still classified as an English language learner. This article traces Ivan's experiences as a language learner and writer, telling his story in his own words through his writing and ethnographic data collected during…
Descriptors: Migrant Children, Literacy, English Language Learners, Mexican American Education
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Kirk, Richard; Watt, Karen M. – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2018
This qualitative study examines how Mexican American students participating in an AVID for Higher Education course perceived their preparation for the workforce and efficacy of completing a college credential. A focus group approach was used to explore how social and cultural networks (networks for success) contribute to college completion. The…
Descriptors: College Students, Credentials, Qualitative Research, Mexican American Education
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Sosa-Provencio, Mia Angélica – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2018
Mia Angélica Sosa-Provencio is assistant professor of Secondary Education in the Department of Teacher Education, Educational Leadership, and Policy at the University of New Mexico. Her research focuses on framing education as a means for social justice with particular focus on teacher education that engages youth in their multiple identities and…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Social Justice, Youth Opportunities, Feminism
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Tessman, Darcy – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2019
Federal and Arizona educational policies challenge U.S.-Mexico border educators to meet the diverse needs of bilingual, bicultural students while also being required to use instructional pedagogies that offer monolingual and monocultural schooling experiences. Ethnographic research captures American schooling experiences of Latino…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Mexican American Education, Hispanic American Students, Educational Policy
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Cortez, Edén; Castro, Erin L. – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2017
This qualitative analysis draws upon the experiences of six Mexican and Mexican American community college transfer students during the 2012-2013 academic year. Relying on literature regarding institutional agents, we examine students' reflections regarding pre- and post-transfer support from both institutional agents and structured student…
Descriptors: Reflection, Qualitative Research, Mexican American Education, Mexican Americans
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