Emotional Endurance: Latina Girls Navigating and Resisting Social Injuries in the New Latino Diaspora

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session 11
  In Roundtable Session: Navigating Violence, Deservedness, and Law Enforcement in the Social Contexts of Schooling

Abstract

This study aims to understand how Latina girls in one New Latino Diaspora town in the mid-Atlantic U.S. experienced and resisted marginalization and discrimination in school and community spaces. This study calls upon data collected with 70 Latina girls, who were either first or 1.75 generation (Rumbaut, 2004) migrants, predominantly from Mexico. Throughout the study, I trace how social injuries, related to the girls’ intersectional (Crenshaw, 1991) and transcultural (Denner & Guzman, 2006a) identities, produced emotional learning experiences, which allowed the girls to reach new understandings of themselves and their social worlds and nurtured the development of their intersectional, critical consciousness.

Author

• Katie Clonan-Roy, Cleveland State University