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    Chicana/Latina Studies
    volume 17 number 2 (Spring 2018)
    Author:   Ruby Chacón
    Title:  In Search of Self: Art as Rebellion, Healing, and Reclamation of our Ancestral Strength
    Abstract:   ARTIST STATEMENT
    Pages: 10 - 17
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    Authors:   Lilliana P Saldaña and Sonya M Alemán
    Title:  Complicating Narratives of Identity, Resistance, and Survival Through Memory, Performance, and Advocacy
    Abstract:   EDITORS' COMMENTARY
    Pages: 20 - 25
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    Author:   Chela Sandoval
    Title:  Translation as "Trans-Interpretation": Notes on Transforming the Book Methodology of the Oppressed into Metodología de la emancipación
    Abstract:   none available
    Pages: 26 - 32
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    Author:   Melissa Huerta
    Title:  "Time to Speak Out:" Towards Conocimiento in Tanya Saracho's Kita y Fernanda
    Abstract:   This paper explores the powerful effects of social class that shape the female characters at the center of Tanya Saracho's play Kita y Fernanda. Saracho writes about the complexities of Mexicana identities in the U.S., especially the dynamics between different social classes within the U.S-Mexican community. Kita y Fernanda is structured as a series of vignettes based on the characters' memories, revealing the effects of social class and cultural identity on their friendship and their lives. These protagonists navigate translocalized social paradigms, relationships, cultural memory, history and (im)migration on a journey of self-discovery. Drawing on Chicana Feminist theories and theories of performance and behavior, this article considers the ways difficult journeys of translocalization can lead to conocimiento, evidenced especially in the character of Kita Gómez. Tanya Saracho's treatment of translocalization and intraMexican relationships demonstrates that by subverting restored behaviors, we can gain self-realization, activism, and social transformation—alternate modes of believing, seeing and being in the world.
    Pages: 36 - 65
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    Author:   Kandace Creel Falcón
    Title:  Friday Night Tacos: Exploring Midwestern Borderlands through Familial Women's Oral Histories
    Abstract:   Tracing the narratives of three Mexican American women's family oral histories, this article looks closely at Gloria Anzaldúa's conceptualization of borderlands as an in-between space of creative strategies for survival and affirmation in relation to Midwestern Mexican American women's experiences. Concurrently, this article recenters the Midwest as a vital project for Chicana Studies by applying a reading of Anzaldúa's borderlands to one Midwestern Mexican American family experience in rural Kansas. Drawing on life reflections of women growing up in the 1960s and 70s, this article exposes the constraints women navigated while also theorizing forms of resistance through food. These claims to home space, belonging, and community by Mexican American women in majority white spaces can serve to inform our broader understanding of Chicana feminist praxis within and beyond the Midwest.
    Pages: 66 - 93
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    Author:   Maria de Lourdes Viloria
    Title:  "Let's See How Long You Last:" A Chicana Borderlands Principal's Experience
    Abstract:    This testimonio is based on an autoethnography of the author's leadership experiences as an elementary school principal in the South Texas borderlands region for twelve years. She focuses on three student-centered organizational practices: (a) culturally responsive leadership and teaching practices (Gay 2010), (b) teacher selfefficacy (Bandura 1993), and (c) sustained academic improvement (Klar and Brewer 2013) to analyze the intersectionalities of her leadership and culturally responsive practices. This testimonio is theoretically grounded on culturally responsive leadership theories. The author describes the culturally responsive leadership pedagogies that she used to develop teacher self-efficacy and students' sustained educational improvement (Solórzano and Solórzano 1995). The implication of this autoethnographic testimonio is to share her contextual leadership practices with present and future school leaders.
    Pages: 94 - 123
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    Author:   Adrianna M Santos
    Title:  "Why Didn't Your Mother Leave?": Sexual Abuse, Storytelling, and Survival in Josie Méndez-Negrete's Las Hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed
    Abstract:    Violence against women is a widespread social problem that is exacerbated for Latinas in the United States through a systemic lack of access to social services. Women of color and immigrant survivors of incest and domestic abuse, who already face marginalization due to an intersection of factors, are often disproportionally stigmatized by victimization. These social conditions frequently prevent them from getting help. Josie Méndez-Negrete's memoir Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed offers a rare glimpse into the lives of immigrant girl-women who have survived sexual abuse through formed bonds of love and sisterhood. The text describes how the author and her family navigated a criminal justice system that is ineffective in assisting victims, especially those who are undocumented. This essay provides an examination of the text through a critical race, gender, and sexuality lens, draws from testimonio studies, and links to growing numbers of sociological research studies on Latinas, immigrants, and sexual abuse as key components in social movements that target violence against women. An Anzaldúan analysis is coupled with an interview with the author. The article 1) contributes to broader anti-violence scholarship that seeks to confront the social stigma of speaking out against abuse, 2) addresses how narratives such as these challenge an oppressive patriarchal system that devalues women and girls by facilitating gender violence, and 3) demonstrates the importance of giving voice to immigrant survivors.
    Pages: 124 - 153
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    Authors:   Patricia Marina Trujillo and Bernadette Trujillo Ellis
    Title:  My House is Falling Down. Help!
    Abstract:   none available
    Pages: 156 - 159
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    Author:   Miryam Espinosa-Dulanto
    Title:  Un Día Cualquiera
    Abstract:   none available
    Pages: 160 - 164
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    Author:   Lilian Cibils
    Title:  En honor a las tierras sagradas
    Abstract:   none available
    Pages: 166 - 168
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    Author:   Lilian Cibils
    Title:  un arrullo
    Abstract:   none available
    Pages: 169 - 170
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    Author:   Lilian Cibils
    Title:  Caracol de tierra
    Abstract:   none available
    Pages: 171 - 172
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    Author:   Lilian Cibils
    Title:  digestión lenta
    Abstract:   none available
    Pages: 172 - 174
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    Author:   Lilian Cibils
    Title:  In the Gap
    Abstract:   none available
    Pages: 175 - 175
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    Author:   Daisy R Herrera
    Title:  The 1970s Royal Chicano Air Force: Art History and Perspectives
    Abstract:   BOOK REVIEW
    Flying Under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force: Mapping a Chicano/a Art History. By Ella Maria Diaz. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017. Pp. 336. $29.95.
    Pages: 178 - 180
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    Author:   Ma. Eugenia Hernández Sánchez
    Title:  Autogestión as a Transformative Path for Girls Resisting Violence and Stigma
    Abstract:   BOOK REVIEW
    Juárez Girls Rising: Transformative Education in Times of Dystopia. By Claudia Cervantes-Soon. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. Pp. 336. $27.00.
    Pages: 182 - 185
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    Author:   Samiri Hernández Hiraldo
    Title:  Suspending Voices
    Abstract:   BOOK REVIEW
    The Great Woman Singer: Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music. By Licia Fiol-Matta. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017. Pp. 291. $24.65.
    Pages: 186 - 189
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    Author:   Susana N Ramí­rez
    Title:  Decolonizing Spirit: New Directions for Chicana, Latina, and Indigenous Politicized Spiritualities
    Abstract:   BOOK REVIEW
    Fleshing the Spirit: Spirituality and Activism in Chicana, Latina, and Indigenous Women's Lives. Ed. Elisa Facio and Irena Lara. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2014. Pp. 272. $27.90.
    Pages: 190 - 193
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