CHICANA AND BLACK FEMINISMS: TESTIMONIOS OF THEORY, IDENTITY, AND MULTICULTURALISM (original) (raw)
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International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education , 2024
This study is a review of educational scholarship that has utilized testimonio as a methodological approach. We begin with a brief overview of testimonio, highlighting its discursive subversions that align with longstanding traditions of storytelling within Communities of Color, and in critical race storytelling. We then describe how testimonio is an important tool within a broader Critical Race Feminista Methodology—a space of theorizing humanizing, anti-colonial methodological approaches that disrupt structural oppression and are guided by “a nostalgia for wholeness” (Delgado Bernal, Pérez Huber, & Malagon, 2019). Testimonio as a Critical Race Feminista Methodology allows for an interweaving of Chicana feminist and critical race epistemological and theoretical tools with qualitative research methods to cultivate methodological space for convivencia, critical reflection, collective knowledge production, and healing. Through this literature review, we see how this methodology brings mutual validation, shared humanity, and imperatives of social justice to the fore, shifting our research praxis from one that reproduces the colonial project, to one that seeks to transform and lead to collective well-being.
Educational Studies, 2018
We write this book review as the Testimonio Study Group (TSG). The TSG is an emergent, growing, and open-ended research collective whose members have been Texas residents with strong ties to the education systems of the US/Mexico Borderlands and Latin America. We write this review of Dolores Delgado Bernal, Rebecca Burciaga, and Judith Flores Carmona's Chicana/Latina Testimonios as Pedagogical, Methodological, and Activist Approaches to Social Justice to express a debt of gratitude to Delgado Bernal et al.'s edited volume for advancing testimonio research in education and for advancing decolonizing and transcontinental testimonio traditions in education research. In this review, we situate the book within the emergent scholarship on Chicana feminist research epistemology and characterize its contents by exploring three chapters that are representative of the book's contents. We conclude this review with an invitation to a subjunctive dialog emphasizing the view to the South, or la mirada al Sur, as old/new historicized, decolonizing, and transcontinental direction for testimonio research in education.
Special Issue: Chicana/Latina Feminism(s): Negotiating Pedagogical Borderlands
Journal of Latino-Latin Amercian Studies (JOLLAS), 2013
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A testimonio of a queer Chicana researcher in education
Journal of Lesbian Studies, 2019
This piece of scholarship provides the testimonio of being a queer Chicana in academia. There is a long history of claiming space, exposing injustice, and truth telling in many Latinx cultures. As an ethnographic methodology testimonios have been used to provide insight of the experiences of marginalized communities. In bringing an indigenous methodology of narrative to bear witness this scholarship must be read as an experience of weaving the many strands of a person together, with endings and beginnings intertwined and revisited. This piece provides a glimpse into the difficulties of bringing, surviving, and salvaging a multiplicity of marginalized identities in academia, a space that are unsafe and unwelcoming for those of us who are not White, straight and male.
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JOLLAS (Journal of Latino-Latin American Studies) Special Issue Guest Editors: Cinthya M. Saavedra & Michelle S. Perez. Contributors: Dolores Calderon, Claudia Cervantes-Soon, Judith Flores Carmona, Karleen Pendleton Jimenez and Ruth Trinidad Galvan. The articles in this special issue of JOLLAS center critical methodologies in educational research. As Chicana/Latina scholars have reimagined pedagogical spaces, so too have they reinvented the methodologies needed for such rearticulations. The Chicana/Latina contributors help us navigate methodological landscapes and offer critical conversations needed in qualitative research. In particular the scholars focus on anticolonial conversations, critical ethnography, theories and methods of the flesh, critical reflexivity, Chicana feminist film-making methodologies as well as push us to consider the global North/South divide by decolonizing conocimiento and forming global alliances.
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