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No Soy Intrusa: Testimonios Of Latina Doctoral Students, Maryann Rocha
No Soy Intrusa: Testimonios Of Latina Doctoral Students, Maryann Rocha
11th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language
The number of Latinas who earn a doctoral degree has increased steadily in the United States, however, the numbers fail to describe the experiences of doctoral Latina students.
The qualitative pilot study was conceived from a graduate Mexican American Studies course project. The study collected testimonio of three Latina doctoral students enrolled in a counseling program at a public university in Texas. Platica was utilized in the research methodology and design, a mutualistic approach that honors the participants testimonio instead of the classic approach of extracting information from the participants.
Latino Critical Theory and Theory in the Flesh were used …