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Compartiendo Nuestras Historias: Five Testimonios Of Schooling And Survival, Wanda Alarcón, Cindy Cruz, Linda Guardia Jackson, Linda Prieto, Sandra Rodriguez-Arroyo
Compartiendo Nuestras Historias: Five Testimonios Of Schooling And Survival, Wanda Alarcón, Cindy Cruz, Linda Guardia Jackson, Linda Prieto, Sandra Rodriguez-Arroyo
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This storytelling begins with a positioning of why and how we use testimonio as part of a larger project of social justice and transformative pedagogies. In this collective testimonio, 5 working-class Latina scholars tell the stories of their struggles to overcome the challenges of language and assimilation, of gender discrimination and racism, of the violence of patriarchy, and of the experience of being treated as an “alien” in one's own country.