Somos Semillas-Ethnic Studies as Liberatory Joy in Rural California

Presentation Year

2024

College or Department

College of Professional Studies

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This is a Collective Auto-Ethnographic Participatory Action Research that uses critical race-gendered epistemologies (Bernal Delgado, 2002, pp.109-110) as a theoretical framework to understand our Ethnic Studies work in schools. Teaching Ethnic Studies is a creation process where we are not only denouncing injustice, we are creating our own sovereign spaces of knowledge production through Courageous Cuentos and healing individually and collectively. Findings show that we experienced transformation as we co-create, define, collectively heal, and document what it means to be LatinE/ ChicanX social justice educator in rural Northern California through Courageous Cuentos.

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Yes

Primary Contact: First Name

Marisol O.

Primary Contact: Last Name

Ruiz

Primary Contact: Email

mr1890@humboldt.edu

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Faculty

Primary Contact: Phone Number

7072960320