The Education of Activists: Critical Racial Literacy Among Chicana Undergraduates

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Abstract

This critical narrative inquiry explores how undergraduate women who identify as Chicana build criticality and activism with regards to their own experiences around race. The paper utilizes the theoretical frameworks of critical pedagogy and Chicana Feminist Epistemology to understand how the participants build critical literacy, specifically in regards to their learnings on race. Critical narrative inquiry methods are used in both one on one and whole group sessions with participants to discuss the ways they have come to understand social constructions of race throughout their lives. The findings offer insight into how Chicanas develop an understanding of race through their interactions with the systems of oppression in which they find themselves.

Author

• Elena Marie Marquez, Chapman University