Working from Within: Chicana and Chicano Activist Educators in Whitestream Schools
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (821 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0816529175 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Combining approaches from anthropology and cultural studies, Working from Within examines how issues of identity, agency, and social movements shape the lives of Chicana and Chicano activist educators in U.S. schools. Luis Urrieta Jr. Overall, Urrieta addresses important questions about what it means to work for social justice from within institutions, and he explores the dialogic spaces between the alternatives of reproduction and resistance. skillfully utilizes the cultural concepts of positioning, figured worlds, and self-authorship, along with Chicano Studies and Chicana feminist frameworks, to tell the story of twenty-four Mexican Americans who have successfully navigated school systems as students and later as activist educators.Working from Within is one of the first books to show how identity is linked to agency--individually and collectively--for Chicanas and Chicanos in education. In doing so, he highlights the continuity of Chicana and Chicano social movement, the relevance of gender, and the importance of autochthonous frameworks in understanding contemporary activism. Finally, he shows that it is possible for minority activist educators to thrive in
James C. Jupp said Working from Within with Intellectual Honesty. Luis Urrieta's Working from Within is a landmark study of Chicano identity and its relationship with whitestream institutions and activism. Working from Within should be on the shelves of every library and student of identity, and it is instructive for anyone interested in studying subjectivity-identity as topics writ large.Using life history, narrative interviews, ethnographic data, and working with constructivist understandings of subjectivity-identity, Urrieta narrates the contours of Chicana and Chicano . Raises intriguing questions Ernesto Aguilar A peculiar tension has always existed between activist educators working in public and higher education. Maybe it is the contradiction of cultivating consciousness of youth while being on the payroll of institutions (and certainly the state) that seldom believe in such politically minded pursuits. Or perhaps, as Luis Urrieta asserts in Working From Within: Chicana and Chicano Activist Educators in Whitestream Schools, it is the self-awareness of being essentially a tool for a system that wants to (and, in ma
An eye-opening book for those of us who feel at home in “whitestream” schools." —Dorothy Holland, co-editor of History in Person: Enduring Struggles, Contentious Practice, Intimate Identities. “A theoretically sophisticated, disturbing, moving account of the identify transformations of 24 Chicanas/Chicanos as they engaged with US schools first as young students, eventually, for some, as faculty in schools and universities. Without Urrieta’s research, outsiders to the Latino/a experience might think “upward mobility”. Instead these activists are striving to “give back” to their communities and wrestling with “playing the game” versus “selling out”