Constructing a Chicana Scholar Identity Through Autoethnographic Testimonio and Anzalduan Frameworks

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Abstract

This autoethnographic testimonio explores the desarollo—development—of my Chicana scholar identity through a Chicana feminist epistemological lens and Anzalduan frameworks. I draw on memory work, artifacts, and narrative writing to examine the linguistic ideologies, cultural disconnections, and sociopolitical contexts that informed my experiences as a Mexican American second language learner of Spanish and bilingual educator in Texas. Through concepts such as conocimiento, linguistic terrorism, and nepantla pedagogy, I reflect on the complexities of identity formation and resistance. This study affirms testimonio as both method and pedagogy by challenging deficit-based ideologies and frameworks that unforget silenced histories and imagine liberatory futures.

Author

• Genevie C. Rodríguez-Quiñones, University of Texas at San Antonio