Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Latina Identity

scholarly journals Designing the “good citizen” through Latina identity in USCIS’s virtual assistant “Emma”

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
pp. 909-925 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Villa-Nicholas ◽  
Miriam E. Sweeney
Keyword(s):  
Good Citizen ◽  
Latina Identity

“These Latin Girls Mean Business”1: Expanding the Boundaries of Latina Youth Identity in Meg Medina’s YA Novel Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass

2020 ◽  
pp. 116-129
Author(s):  
Cristina Herrera
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Urban Girls ◽  
Girls Of Color ◽  
Youth Identity ◽  
Latina Identity

This chapter examines the ways in which Latina urban identities have been shaped by popular culture as the “chola/homegirl.” However, this chapter argues that Medina’s novel challenges the seemingly natural alignment of urban Latina identity with the chola by calling for a more expansive view of what it means to be a young, urban Latina. This chapter uses Chicana/Latina feminist theorizing that has examined the chola identity, in addition to sociological research that has studied the ways in which urban girls of color are constructed as “bad” or “delinquent.” This chapter examines the protagonist in light of these theories. Further, the chapter argues that Medina’s novel, in expanding what it means to be a young, urban Latina, questions the ways in which those Latinas who do not model themselves as cholas are victims of identity-policing, rendered not “really” Latina, and dismissed as weirdos or outsiders within this narrow gender/racial identity script that defines chola identity as the only “authentic” young, urban, Latina identity.

Mainstreaming Latina Identity

2014 ◽  
pp. 285-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip A. Kretsedemas
Keyword(s):  
Latina Identity

At the Crossroads: Latina Identity and Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex

Hypatia ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-333
Author(s):  
Stephanie Rivera Berruz
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Second Sex ◽  
Canonical Text ◽  
Latina Identity ◽  
And Gender

Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex has been heralded as a canonical text of feminist theory. The book focuses on providing an account of the lived experience of woman that generates a condition of otherness. However, I contend that it falls short of being able to account for the multidimensionality of identity insofar as Beauvoir's argument rests upon the comparison between racial and gendered oppression that is understood through the black–white binary. The result of this framework is the imperceptibility of identities at the crossroads between categories of race and gender. Hence, the goal of this article is to explore the margins of Beauvoir's work in order to decenter the “other” of The Second Sex and make known what is made imperceptible by its architecture, using Latina identity as an interventional guide. I conclude that given the prominence of The Second Sex in feminist theory, this shortcoming must be addressed if feminist theorists are to use it responsibly.

Representing Ourselves: Latina Identity in Performance

New Voices ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenia Albina ◽  
Veronica Savory
Keyword(s):  
Latina Identity
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