Bregando en la Diáspora: Puerto Rican Female Scholars Interrogating Their Educational Pathways

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session Fifteen
  In Roundtable Session: Critical Theory and Culturally Affirming Research in Latinx/e Scholarship (Table 5)

Abstract

Research documenting the experiences and subjectivities of Puerto Rican female scholars on the road to doctoral attainment in the United States is absent, underrepresented, and decontextualized. Drawing from place consciousness (Greenwood, 2019), and Community Cultural Wealth (CCW) (Yosso, 2005) frameworks, and guided by La Brega as a Puerto Rican epistemology, a central strategy to navigate life as a means of surviving with dignity in the face of adversity (Díaz Quiñones, 2000), we employ testimonio as a first-person methodology to interrogate and reflect on the contradictions and complexities of our educational trajectories as two Puerto Rican female scholars living and working in the U.S. diaspora within majority White spaces. Findings extend Yosso's framework revealing a distinct Riqueza Cultural Puertorriqueña (RCP).

Authors

• Nidza Marichal, University of Florida
  Presenting Author

• Raisa Ankeny, Stetson University
  Presenting Author