Toward an epistemology of a brown body

Cruz, Cindy

doi:10.1080/09518390110059874

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“…Cruz (2001) contends, ''nothing provokes the custodians of normality and objectivity more than the excessiveness of a body,'' (p. 659) thus non-excessive bodies, or bodies that conform to prescribed norms, become the bodies of choice when selecting students for participation in such programs. The extended learning community would only be in contact with Denver high school students through the videoconferencing sessions; therefore, the selection of ''special'' students was imperative.…”

Section: Displaying the College Bound Bodymentioning

confidence: 97%

Extending Learning Communities: New Technologies, Multiple Literacies, and Culture Blind Pedagogies

Knight

Dixon²,

Norton

et al. 2004

The Urban Review

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Technologies such as videoconferencing used for distance education are creating ways for high schools to extend their learning communities to connect youth with professional communities of practice in ways that approximate the face-to-face interactions in traditional classrooms. These technologies are often touted as a way to augment course offerings and curricula, particularly those needed for college-going. The use of videoconferencing technologies alone, however, does not ensure that the desired forms of interaction will occur particularly given their reliance on traditional banking-model pedagogies and literacies. In this article, we focus on college bound Black and Latino/a youth from under resourced urban communities and their negotiations of new technologies, multiple literacies, and traditional pedagogies within a music education learning community extended through videoconferencing technologies. Employing a multicultural feminist critical theoretical framework, we unearth the ways Black and Latino/a youth's identities as active learners and college-bound musicians shape, and are shaped, in the interplay of new technologies, multiple literacies, and traditional pedagogies within a music education classroom.

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Section: Displaying the College Bound Bodymentioning

confidence: 97%

Extending Learning Communities: New Technologies, Multiple Literacies, and Culture Blind Pedagogies

Knight

Dixon²,

Norton

et al. 2004

The Urban Review

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“…Discourses of race, sexuality, and class are inscribed upon the queer and brown body in ways that contain and restrain, concealing how systems of power have privileged the kinds of narratives that invalidate and undermine other more local and/or transgressive meanings and identities (Cruz 2001;Saavedra and Nymark 2008). These intersections of power and oppression are particularly illuminating and provide spaces where education researchers can begin to analyze how power articulates itself around and through the axis of class, race, gender, and sexuality.…”

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LGBTQ street youth talk back: a meditation on resistance and witnessing

Cruz

2011

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

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In this ethnography of LGBTQ street youth, I argue that despite the regulation and containment of their bodies, queer street youth consistently create spaces of resistance that move them away from the tropes of infection, contamination, and deservedness that are inscripted onto the bodies of queer youth. Using the work of feminist philosopher Maria Lugones, this essay articulates a framework for resistance researchers -scholars who enact a "faithful witnessing" in solidarity with the communities they are describing, a movement away from the radical othering that often happens in social science research. It is in this positioning as a faithful witness that researchers can attend to the deconstruction of the discursive climates of deficit tropes that obscure the gestures and maneuvers of resistance. The tropes of contamination and irresponsibility intersect many of the experiences of LGBTQ street youth in ways that implicate not only LGBTQ street youth, but also other marginalized bodies.

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“…Examples include considering notions of cultural intuition (Cervantes-Soon, 2014;Delgado Bernal, 1998), critical reflexivity (Flores Carmona, 2014;Saavedra, 2011a;Villenas, 1996), and the brown body/sexuality (Cruz, 2001(Cruz, , 2011Yarbro-Bejarano, 1999). From these ideas, methodologies such as testimonio have been birthed (Blackmer Reyes & Curry Rodríguez, 2012;Calderon et al, 2012;Delgado Bernal, Burciaga, & Flores Carmona, 2012;Latina Feminist Group, 2001) that forge connections between the individual ''I'' and the collective ''we.''…”

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confidence: 99%

Chicana/Latina Feminist Critical Qualitative Inquiry

Saavedra¹,

Pérez²

2017

International Review of Qualitative Research

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In this article we take a journey into using Chicana/Latina feminisms as one way to unearth new possibilities for critical qualitative inquiry (CQI). We start by offering a brief overview of Gloria Anzaldúa's influence on Chicana/Latina feminism, focusing on how she has inspired researching and writing from within rather than about as a decolonial turn (Keating, 2015). We then venture into new imaginaries to pose questions that would lead us to ponder about global feminista solidarity, the spirit, and the land.Our hope is that these contemplations lead us on a path of conocimiento where we can put the broken pieces of our/selves back together again.

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Toward an epistemology of a brown body

Cited by 143 publications

References 14 publications

Extending Learning Communities: New Technologies, Multiple Literacies, and Culture Blind Pedagogies

Extending Learning Communities: New Technologies, Multiple Literacies, and Culture Blind Pedagogies

LGBTQ street youth talk back: a meditation on resistance and witnessing

Chicana/Latina Feminist Critical Qualitative Inquiry

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