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Roman, Nike. "Eso No es Rap es Vida Real: Latinx Chicago Hip Hop Artists as Organic Intellectuals, Taking Control of the Narratives of their Communities." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/854.
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This thesis analyzes at how Latinx Hip Hop artists from Chicago act as organic intellectuals within their community and how they use their platform as artists to challenge the narratives created by government officials that aim to criminalize their community in an effort to normalize and justify the policing of their neighborhoods.
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Contreras, Raoul. "Chicano Movement Chicano Studies: Social Science and Self-Conscious Ideology." Mexican American Studies & Research Center, The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624827.
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de, la Garza Valenzuela José A. "IMPOSSIBLY HERE, IMPOSSIBLY QUEER:CITIZENSHIP, SEXUALITY, AND GAY CHICANO FICTION." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1460677739.
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Sotelo, Susan B. "Chicano detective fiction: Hot sauce for the whodunit." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289955.
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Recent detective novels (1985-2001) of five Chicano authors, Rudolfo Anaya, Lucha Corpi, Rolando Hinojosa, Michael Nava and Manuel Ramos are analyzed in relationship to Anglo-American and British detective genres, Chicano literature and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Romanticism. The analysis focuses on Rudolfo Anaya's Shaman Winter, Lucha Corpi's Cactus Blood, Rolando Hinojosa's Partners in Crime, Michael Nava's Rag and Bone and Manuel Ramos' The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz. Chicano detective fiction draws from Anglo-American and British detective genre formulas and can be distinguished from the Anglo-American and British detective fiction genres because of the nature of its departures from detective genre formulas. In addition to the detective genre, Chicano authors refer to various eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Romantic literatures. Chicano detective fiction is aware of popular interests in the United States: an interest in ethnic literatures, a popular interest in origin, and the popularity of the crime story or detective story in non-fiction news and fictional narratives of television and film. The five novelists utilize these contemporary popular trends in the United States in order to reach a larger readership than would otherwise be possible if any one of the three were ignored. Anglo-American and British detective fiction assumes a homogeneous readership: national and/or ethnic-racial. Chicano detective fiction does not assume that its readers are Chicano and for this reason elaborates on the origin and the community of the detective in order to facilitate the reader's identification with the investigator. Chicano detective novels integrate, under the guise of detective fiction, the stories of an ethnic experience and the origin of an ethnicity. The quest of Chicano detectives is to establish a stable environment and a stable identity, but the dialectic that ensues between the detective and his environment cannot be resolved conclusively. Their visions of stability originate from various sources that range from a homogeneous North-American ideology to a Chicano alter-ideology. Each individual novel suggests a space where the detective, his community and the nation state can entertain the romantic illusion of productive cooperation beneficial to the Chicano community.
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Aguilar, Emiliano Jr. ""No More Cathedrals|" The Chicano Movement Encounters the Catholic Church." Thesis, Purdue University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10272950.
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<p> The tumultuous period of the 1960s reflect an era of change and renegotiation of the power dynamics in the United States. While forging an ethno-nationalist identity, the historical agents of the Chicano Movement also struggled with some of their identifying characteristics and those characteristics impact on their activism. The most notable internal conflict with the Chicanos’ construction of identity was the role of their faith and its physical manifestation: the Catholic Church. Through the external movements of notable leaders, such as César Chávez, Ricardo Cruz, and Reies Lopez-Tijerina, the role of religion in a movement that is typically considered secular was notable. These leaders questioned the use of resources by the Church on behalf of the Chicanos and demanded that the Church serve, along with the movement, in their pursuit for equality. Chicano leaders established a precedent for internal changes via Chicano priests and religious Chicanas within the Church. As criticism of the Catholic Church by external forces allowed for ample space for internal members of the system to advocate for change on the basis of the protests. Members of the movement pressured the Catholic Church to support its Chicana constituents were necessary to elicit change from the Catholic Church in its support of Chicano constituents. Each group within the Chicano political movement shared demands of the Church to utilize native clergy, reconsider the use of their resources, and serve their constituents’ physical and not just their spiritual needs. Aside from this reciprocal relationship, these Chicanos political leaders forced the Catholic Church to act on the declarations of Vatican II by relying on liberationist concepts. These concepts sought to establish a focus on the impoverished and to treat the spiritual needs and earthly needs of the poor simultaneously. The Chicano Movement demanded that the Catholic Church become involved with issues of social justice and provide the Chicano Movement with a greatly needed moral justification.</p><p>
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Anderson, Tiffany Miranda. "Power to the People: Self-determined Identity in Black Pride and Chicano Movement Literature." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1343826432.
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Franco, William. "Cross-cultural collaboration in New Zealand : a Chicano in Kiwi land." Massey University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/878.
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In my exegesis, I will explore the different social, political, cultural and artistic themes, influences and methods that direct my art practice. I will dissect my current work, outlining these transformations and how they impact my work here at Massey, as well as how they will continue to inspire my art practice in the future.
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Casas, Martha. "Viva Emiliano Zapata! Viva Benito Juarez! Helping Mexican and Chicano Middle School Students Develop a Chicano Consciousness via Critical Pedagogy and Latino/Latina Critical Race Theory." University of Arizona, Mexican American Studies and Research Center, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/219198.
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This article describes how an anti-racist curriculum constructed on Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Latino Critical Pedagogy
(LatCrit) helped Mexican and Chicano middle school students enrolled in an alternative education program to alter their
attitudes toward the use of English, and to change their forms of self-identification resulting in the development of a Chicano
consciousness. In the beginning of this fourteen-month study, 9.6% of the students identified with the Chicano label.
However, at the end of the study, 77% of the class selected the Chicano label for self-identification. Moreover, this
investigation bridges the theoretical concepts of Critical Pedagogy to everyday practice in a middle school classroom. In short, the tenets of this theoretical framework were applied in the design and the implementation of the curriculum.
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Steidl, Jason. "The Chicano Movement in the US Catholic Church| Grassroots Activism and Dialogical Ecclesiology." Thesis, Fordham University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10846575.
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<p> The Chicano Movement in the Catholic Church initiated dialogue with the Catholic hierarchy through grassroots activism that ranged from the prophetic to the quotidian. Chicano organizations were led by Catholics whose experiences of the Church gave rise to their advocacy for racial justice, equal representation, and culturally appropriate ministries. Visions for the Church originating in the fields and barrios grew into a movement that challenged racism against Mexican Americans at local, diocesan, and national levels. Many Chicanos held that there was an inseparable connection between their cultural and spiritual lives. They asserted their place within the faith community and demanded the pastoral care that Anglo Catholic leadership denied them. Chicano Catholics pressured the Church with strategies they learned from community organizing, the Chicano and Black Liberation Movements, and the Feminist Movement. They did so in a way that made Catholic doctrine, rhetoric, and rituals central to their campaign and set them apart from secular branches of <i>movimiento </i> activism. Chicano Catholics valued the social, economic, and spiritual power held by the Church and were determined to redistribute it among Mexican American communities. </p><p> Decades after the peak of the Chicano Movement, its history in the Church is ripe for theological reflection. As a historical study, this work augments secular histories that have neglected the religious, theological, and ecclesiological foundations of the Chicano Movement. Theologically, this dissertation will encourage existing ecclesiologies to take seriously grassroots perspectives of the Church that animate dialogue, including the unconventional, controversial, and often provocative means that the Chicano Movement used to instigate dialogue between the center and peripheries of the US Catholic Church. Lessons from the Chicano Movement are invaluable for a Church within a political, social, and ecclesial milieu that continues to exclude vulnerable communities.</p><p>
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Solis, Sandra Ellen. ""To preserve our heritage and our identity": the creation of the Chicano Indian American Student Union at The University of Iowa in 1971." Diss., University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1180.
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The 1960s and 1970s represent a pivotal period in US history and there is a growing body of critical research into how the massive changes of the era (re)shaped institutions and individuals. This dissertation furthers that research by focusing its attention on the creation of the Chicano Indian American Student Union (CIASU) at The University of Iowa in 1971 from an Interdisciplinary perspective. CIASU as the subject of study offers a site that is rich in context and content; this dissertation examines the ways in which a small group of minority students was able to create an ethnically defined cultural center in the Midwest where none had existed prior and does this by looking at the intersection of ethnic identity and student activism. Covering the years 1968-1972, this work provides a "before" and "after" snapshot of life for Chicano/a and American Indian students at Iowa and does so utilizing only historical documents as a way of better understanding how much more research needs to be done.
I explore the way in which various social movements such as the Anti-War Movement, the Chicano Movement, the American Indian Movement, the Women's Movement and the cause of the United Farm Workers influenced founding members Nancy V. "Rusty" Barceló, Ruth Pushetonequa and Antonio Zavala within their Midwestern situatedness as ethnic beings. My dissertation draws from and builds upon the work of Gloria Anzaldua in Borderlands/La Frontera by interrogating the ways in which CIASU and its "House" acted as a self-defined "borderlands" for the Chicano/a and American Indian students. I examine the ways in which the idea of "borderlands" is not limited to any one geographical area but is one defined by context and necessity. Also interrogated is how performativity of ethnic identity worked as both cultural comfort and challenge to the students themselves as well as to the larger University community through the use of dress and language, especially "Spanglish".
This dissertation examines the activism of CIASU within the University context and out in the Chicano/a and American Indian communities as liberatory practice and working to affect change. Specifically, presenting alternatives for minority communities through actions such as Pre-School classes and performances of El Teatro Zapata and Los Bailadores Zapatista and recruitment of Chicano/a and American Indian high school students. On campus, activism through publication is examined; El Laberinto as the in-house newsletter provides insight into the day-to-day concerns of the students and Nahuatzen, a literary magazine with a wider audience that focused on the larger political questions of the day, taking a broader view of the challenges of ethnic identity as a way to educate and inform. This dissertation views CIASU as a "bridge"; the students worked to create alliances between themselves and the larger University population as well as Chicano/a and American Indian communities. With the recent fortieth anniversary of CIASU it is evident the founding members' wish "to preserve our heritage and our identity" (Daily Iowan, November, 1970) continues and the organization they founded, now known as the Latino Native American Cultural Center, still serves the needs of Latino and American Indian students at Iowa.
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Hill, Zuganelli Dee, and Zuganelli Dee Hill. "Chicano Studies: Proliferation of the Discipline and the Formal Institutionalization of Community Engagement, 1965 to Present." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/620852.
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This dissertation is a comparative study of the formal institutionalization of Chicana/o Studies programs in four-year colleges and universities between 1970 and the present, and of how variations in institutionalization create different community engagement dynamics for Latina/o populations both on- and off-campus. This research examines the impact of program and university-level characteristics on the formal institutionalization of these programs and the embedding of community engagement within program mission statements. Moreover, the dissertation examines tensions, balancing acts, and trade-offs between achieving program stability and satisfying legitimizing demands of academic labor. Program-level characteristics include formal classification as either a Chicana/o Studies program or cognate (e.g., Mexican American Studies, Hispanic Studies, Latin American Studies, etc.) or a more generalist ethnic studies program (e.g., ethnic studies, cultural studies, American Studies, etc.). University-level characteristics include locus of control (i.e., public or private universities), institutional wealth, total student body and minority enrollments, histories of campus protest, and regional diffusion. The findings indicate complex and distinguishable relationships among program classification, formal program institutionalization, and community engagement prospects; and that predictors for institutionalization partially predict efforts to work with minority populations off-campus. Complicating these relationships suggests a need to consider variations in program-level institutionalization and dedicate future work to this level.
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Garcia, Gilberto. "Beyond the Adelita Image: Women Scholars in the National Association for Chicano Studies, 1972-1992." Mexican American Studies & Research Center, The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624818.
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Rodriguez, Cristina. "Find Yourself Here| Neighborhood Logics in Twenty-First Century Chicano and Latino Literature." Thesis, University of California, Irvine, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3717110.
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<p> "Find Yourself Here" argues that since transmigrants often form profound connections to place, we can develop a nuanced account of transmigrant subjectivity through innovative fiction by migrants who describe their own neighborhoods. The authors studied use their own hometowns as both setting and stylistic inspiration, deploying various formal techniques to mirror the fictional location to the real one, thus literarily enacting the neighborhood. I construct a neighborhood geography from each work, by traveling on foot, interviewing the neighbors and local historians, mapping the text’s fictional setting upon the actual spaces it references, and teasing out connections between place, narrative form, and migrancy, to demonstrate how excavating the locale illuminates the text. My methodology is interdisciplinary: it incorporates recent sociological studies of transnationalism by Linda Basch, Patricia Pessar, and Jorge Duany, tenets of Human Geography, and the work of Latino literary theorists including Raúl Homero Villa and Mary Pat Bray on space in narrative. My literary neighborhood geographies—of Salvador Plascencia’s El Monte barrio, Junot Díaz’s New Jersey housing development, Sandra Cisneros’ Westside Chicago, and Helena María Viramontes’ East Los Angeles—sharpen Latino literary criticism’s long-standing focus on urban and regional spaces in narrative by zooming in on neighborhood streets, while building on contemporary theories of transnationalism to analyze the broader cultural implications of local migrancy. By grounding the effects of transmigrancy in concrete locations, “Find Yourself Here” presents a comprehensive vision of the US Latino immigrant experience without generalizing from its myriad versions and numerous sites.</p>
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Bush, Douglas Paul William. "Selling a Feeling: New Approaches Toward Recent Gay Chicano Authors and Their Audience." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366247518.
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Rivera, Carolyn Padilla. "Delving Into the Depths of the Chicano Psyche| Incorporating Myth and the Biracial Identity Model." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1522542.
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<p> This thesis explores alienation from one’s cultural and ethnic legacy and its ramifications for Chicanos, other ethnic groups, and biracial individuals. From a depth psychological perspective, the impact of loss of language and culture for individuals in these populations is investigated in relation to the development of psyche and the individuation process. Understanding of the unhealed wounds of loss of land, both physically and spiritually, has affected the Chicano psyche in relation to itself and the world. Seven themes are indentified and discussed regarding the cultural unconscious in order to provide for therapists a greater understanding of the psyches and cultural background of Chicanos and other ethnic groups. This information can assist therapists to be more culturally competent when working with these populations. The definitive purpose of the study is to learn how depth psychology can better serve this community and bring insight to what the soul is calling for. </p>
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Diaz, Ella Maria. "Flying under the radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force: The ongoing politics of space and ethnic identity." W&M ScholarWorks, 2010. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623562.
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This dissertation explores the Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF), a Chicano/a arts collective that produced numerous murals in Sacramento, CA, for over forty years. Grounded in Mexican and US aesthetic traditions, their murals reflect cultural hybridity and re-imagine US history through a Chicano/a perspective. Many of their works were and are located in Sacramento's Chicano/a barrios, while others occupy interethnic, public space in the vicinity of the State Capitol. By encoding hidden Chicano/a iconographies within each mural, the RCAF offers what scholar Alicia Gaspar de Alba calls "alter-Native" narratives of American history because they posit "Other" views of local history, which trouble larger frameworks of US history.;The exposition begins by exploring the RCAF's origin's-story---or, how the group emerged in the 1960s and '70s Civil Rights Movement, and also in relation to events of the early twentieth century. Both the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and the 1942 Bracero Program in the US impacted Mexican Americans in meaningful ways that resonate in the memories and biographies of the RCAF. After locating the group's historical antecedents, Chapter Two examines the rise of public art in the wake of the 1960s and '70s civil rights era, which reflected ethno-political activism as well as ethnic self-actualization.;Chapter Three explores issues of gender in the RCAF, since most of the artists that comprise the group are male. Chapter Four provides a historical overview of their murals, all of which convey messages and themes of historical inclusion and intervention. Chapter Five proposes a theoretical framework on the notion of 'remapping' and how it's been used in American Studies, Literary Studies and related intellectual fields.;Finally, Chapter Six enacts a remapping by rethinking Sacramento's history according to the murals and historic spaces of the RCAF. as a conclusion, this chapter also charts the RCAF and Chicano/a art's movement into institutional space, both literally---through museum and library collections---and figuratively---in perceptions and paradigms of US art history.
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Sloan, Dennis. "From la Carpa to the Classroom: The Chicano Theatre Movement and Actor Training in the United States." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1584738087430235.
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HAVEY, NICHOLAS FRANCIS. "MÁS QUE PRECIOUS KNOWLEDGE: ARTISTIC RESPONSES TO TUCSON’S MEXICAN AMERICAN STUDIES CONTROVERSY AND INTERNAL PREJUDICES IN THE CHICANO MOVEMENT." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/612992.
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In 2010 the Arizona State Legislature passed H.B 2281, prohibiting classes considered harmful to the United States Government. This bill, specifically designed for the Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican American Studies (MAS) program, banned classes that fomented ethnic solidarity or treated students as members of a specific group instead of individuals. This thesis analyzes two artistic responses to this controversy, a documentary film called Precious Knowledge (2011) and a play called MÁS (2015). While both of these texts celebrate Chicano identity and emphasize the importance of the Mexican American Studies program, MÁS largely responds to and seeks to correct the failures of Precious Knowledge, which was critiqued for perpetuating the sexism, racism, anti-indigenism, and homophobia that have long been a site of contention within Chicano identity discourses. Despite this attempt to correct the failures of Precious Knowledge, however, I ultimately argue that both of these artistic texts, even in their efforts to counter hegemonic state discourse, reproduce so-called “internal colonialism” in their problematic representation of indigenous figures, women and queer-identifying people.
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En 2010, la legislatura del estado de Arizona pasó H.B 2281, que prohibió clases consideradas como dañinas al gobierno estadounidense. Esa ley, específicamente designada por el programa de estudios mexicanoamericanos en el distrito escolar unido de Tucson, prohibió clases que quieren fomentar la solidaridad étnica o tratar a los estudiantes como miembros de un grupo en lugar de individuos. Esa tesis analiza dos respuestas artísticas a esa controversia, un documental llamado Precious Knowledge (2011) y una obra del teatro llamada MÁS (2015). Aunque las dos respuestas celebran la identidad chicana y enfatizan la importancia del programa de estudios mexicanoamericanos, MÁS atiende y trata de corregir los fracasos de Precious Knowledge, que fue criticado por perpetuar el sexismo, racismo, anti-indigenismo, y homofobia que históricamente han sido un sitio de contención dentro de discursos de la identidad chicana. A pesar de ese intento de corregir los fracasos de Precious Knowledge, sin embargo, por último, argumento que los dos textos artísticos, incluso en sus esfuerzos de contrarrestar el discurso del estado hegemónico, reproducen lo que se ha llamado el “colonialismo interno” en sus representaciones problemáticas de figuras indígenas, mujeres y personas que identifican como queer.
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Acosta, Curtis William. "The Impact of Humanizing Pedagogies and Curriculum Upon the Identities, Civic Engagement, and Political Activism of Chican@ Youth." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556592.
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This dissertation presents two participatory action research case studies focusing upon how students viewed the influence of the pedagogy and curriculum of the Chican@ Literature, Art and Social Studies (CLASS) program upon their personal, ethnic, and academic identities. In addition, these studies examined the various ways that youth perceive their role in addressing critical issues in their lives. I conducted this study as a teacher researcher in collaboration with my students. The first study focuses upon eight of the students in the CLASS program as a collective, and the second study is concentrated upon the only student in CLASS who was not of Chican@/Latin@ descent. Both case studies were ten months in duration where I used ethnographic research methods for data collection, which included transcripts from one-on one interviews with the students, as well as artifacts they produced during CLASS. The eight students in this study were an average age of 18.5 years old and all but one had experience in the now defunct Mexican American Studies (MAS) program in Tucson; a program that produced positive educational outcomes in terms of graduation rates and state standardized tests through culturally responsive and critical pedagogy rooted in Indigenous epistemologies (Cabrera, Milem, Jacquette, & Marx, 2014). CLASS was a similar in structure and practice to MAS since I was a teacher in both programs. However, due to unprecedented legislation in Arizona banning Mexican American Studies, CLASS became the last vestiges of the former program outside of public school spaces in order to adhere to the law (Acosta, 2014a; 2014b). Implications include the impact of Indigenous epistemologies, decolonizing and humanizing methodologies and theoretical frameworks upon teaching practices for Chican@ students and other students of color. Furthermore, culturally sustaining pedagogies and critical multicultural and responsive curriculum can increase student engagement and the formation of a positive academic identity (Banks, 2005; Ladson-Billings, 1994; Paris & Alim, 2014; Valenzuela, 1999). Finally, counter narratives (Delgado & Stefancic, 2001), ethnic studies, and social justice curricula (Sleeter, 2011) coupled with Indigenous epistemologies can assist in the development of critical consciousness in students, and serve as a guide to taking collective action in their community and lives.
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Serrano, Maria Cristina. "Visualizando la Conciencia Mestiza: The Relation of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Mestiza Consciousness to Mexican American Performance and Poster Art." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3591.
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This thesis explores Gloria Anzaldúa’s notion of mestiza consciousness and its
relation to Mexican American performance and poster art. It examines how the traditional
conceptions of mestizo identity were redefined by Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera
in an attempt to eradicate oppression through a change of consciousness. Anzaldua’s
conceptions are then applied to Guillermo Gomez-Peña’s performance art discussing the
intricacies and complexities of his performances as examples of mestiza consciousness.
This thesis finally analyzes various Mexican American posters in relation to both
Anzaldúa and Gomez-Peña’s art works. It demonstrates that the similarities in the artist’s
treatment of hybridity illustrate a progressive change in worldview, thus exhibit mestiza
consciousness.
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Wiggins, Leticia Rose. "Planting the "Uprooted Ones:" La Raza in the Midwest, 1970 - 1979." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1468604290.
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Bruton, Rita Tovar. "A Feminist Rereading of Selected Works by Carlos Morton." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984223/.
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Carlos Morton is a prominent Chicano playwright that has contributed greatly to Chicano theatre, creatively and academically, since in 1970s. This thesis offers a feminist analysis of the gender representation in three of his works: Lilith (1977), La Malinche (1984), and Dreaming on a Sunday in the Alameda (1992). The female characters in these three plays possess a unique agency that allows them to challenge oppressive patriarchal standards imposed on their gender identity. The second chapter explores Morton's Lilith, a play based on a Jewish creation myth. In the play, Lilith possesses agency of her gender identity and forms a bond with Eve to fight the patriarchal gender norms used to restrict women in Chicano culture. La Malinche is an adaptation of Eurpides's Medea set in post-Conquest New Spain. Chapter three focuses on the agency displayed by La Malinche through her indigenous roots to fight for her own form of motherhood and freedom from patriarchy. The final play analyzed in this thesis is Dreaming on a Sunday in the Alameda, a dream-like play that is based on Diego Rivera's mural by the same name. Several female characters in the play demonstrate agency through their androgynous sexual identities as they unite to resist male character's sexualized perceptions and expectations of females within Mexican and Chicano culture.
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Villela, Berenice. ""Nudge a Mexican and She or He Will Break Out With a Story": Complicating Mexican Immigrant Masculinities through Counternarrative Storytelling." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/98.
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In this thesis, I explore Latino masculinities and contest their uniformity through transforming an oral history conducted with my father into a collection of short stories. Following storytelling traditions of Latino/Mexican culture, I converted an oral history interviews with my dad into a collection of short stories. From these short stories I extracted themes relating to the micro and macro manifestations of gender policing. Drawing from Judith Butler's Theory of performativity and Gloria Anzaldua's theory of Borderland identities, I rethink masculinity and offer Jose Esteban Munoz's theory of disidentification. With these theories in conversation, I analyze the themes of the short stories I present. In Chapter One, I investigate the potential of verguenza and respeto, or shame and respect, to complicate masculinity. In Chapter Two, I critically analyze my father's interaction with INS officials during his interview to become a U.S. resident. In these two sets of stories, I use disidentification to uncover the third space relationship with masculinity. I see this relationship at the intersections of race, class, gender and ability, the identities which come together to leave my father in the borderlands. Ultimately, I complicate masculinity through these analyses, offering a space for a nonoppressive masculinity.
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Berry, Alaina. "The Effects of Code-Switching: How Bless Me, Ultima Explores Chican@ Culture and American Identity." Ashland University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=auhonors1430753754.
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Thibodeau, Anthony. "Anti-colonial Resistance and Indigenous Identity in North American Heavy Metal." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1395606419.
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Myers, Antoinette L. "From a Xicanadyke Imagination: An Examination of Queer Xicanidad, Citizenship and National Identity through The L Word, The Hungry Woman, and Mosquita y Mari." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/124.
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This thesis examines the ways in which popular media forms explore ideas of national identity, citizenship, and the politics of representation with regards to queer Xicana women, especially those residing in Los Angeles. Specifically, through an analysis of the television show The L Word, Cherrie Moraga’s play The Hungry Woman and Aurora Guerrero’s film Mosquita y Mari, this thesis argues that the queer Xicana experience is best represented in popular culture by queer Xicanas themselves.
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Sylvern, Craig S. "A Hypermedia Guide to Jazz Appreciation, Beginnings to Chicago /." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487933245538046.
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Austin, Katherine. "Rasquache Baroque in the Chicana/o Borderlands." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=110626.
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The Chicana/o borderlands have generated their own barroquismo which, having thrived on the fruits of a colonial Mexican heritage, intensified within the unique cultural climate of the Southwest US. As second-class citizens, Mexican-Americans have been excluded from the metanarratives of the nation. However, this position as outsiders has granted them a unique vantage point from which to see a multifaceted and contradictory reality. Living in the socio-cultural margins, a certain way of thinking emerged which allowed for contradictions, ambiguity, and plurality: essentially, a baroque way of thinking. This particular consciousness combined with a colonial baroque cultural foundation produced rasquachismo, a sensibility which mirrors the baroque in many ways. Operating on a constant interrelating of the baroque with Chicana/o thought and aesthetics, this dissertation will create points of suture so that the two may inform and enrich each other. All the works treated in this dissertation participate thoroughly in rasquache baroque sensibilities, citing baroque history and summoning the ghosts of the colonial past while generating inclusive structures, impure hybridities and juxtapositions, flamboyance, excess, bold transformations, and critical humour for the purpose of negotiating an adverse and complex reality and for culturally arming oneself against hegemony, in an attempt to ensure cultural survival and resistance. The first chapter, "Ana Castillo's Xicanista Baroque: Allegory, Hagiography, and the Supernatural in So Far from God," explores how this novel continues the colonial baroque traditions of allegory, hagiography, and miracles. The second chapter, "Robo-baroque: The Performances of Guillermo Gómez-Peña and his Pocha Nostra," investigates the colonial baroque legacy which saturates the performances of Guillermo Gómez-Peña and his performance group, La Pocha Nostra. This legacy is demonstrated by a layering of baroque conventions—allegory, hagiography, and the wünderkammer—, as well as by an intensely baroque spatial and temporal ordering which harnesses the powers of decentralization, pluralism, coextensive space, and seriality. The third chapter, "Amalia Mesa-Bains's Domesticana Baroque," looks at the installation works of Amalia Mesa-Bains, investigating how these installations use the conventions of the wünderkammer and vanitas along with the concepts of the mirror and the fold to speak of baroque knowledge systems, female and non-Western identities, and feminine interior spaces. Finally, the conclusion relates the works studied in this thesis and elaborates on the benefits of Chicana/o baroque thought.<br>Les frontières chicanas ont généré leurs propres barroquismos qui, ayant fait pousser les fruits de l'héritage colonial mexicain, se sont intensifiés dans le climat culturel unique du sud-ouest des États-Unis. En tant que citoyens de seconde classe, les Mexico-Américains ont été exclus des méta-récits de la nation. Cependant, cette position extérieure leur a accordé un point de vue unique, d'où l'on pouvait percevoir une réalité multiforme et contradictoire. De l'habitation des marges socio-culturelles, une certaine façon de penser a émergé, permettant la coexistence de contradictions, l'ambiguïté et la pluralité: une manière de penser essentiellement baroque. Cette thèse se base sur une constante interrelation du baroque avec la pensée et l'esthétique chicanas, créant des points de suture entre ces derniers de manière à ce qu'ils puissent s'éclairer et s'enrichir mutuellement.Toutes les œuvres traitées dans cette thèse participent profondément aux sensibilités baroque-rasquaches, en citant l'histoire baroque et en évoquant les fantômes du passé colonial tout en générant des structures inclusives, des hybridités impures et des juxtapositions, de la flamboyance, de l'excès, des transformations audacieuses, et un humour critique afin de négocier les termes d'une réalité complexe et défavorable et de s'armer culturellement contre l'hégémonie de manière à assurer la survie culturelle et la résistance.Le premier chapitre, "Ana Castillo's Xicanista Baroque: Allegory, Hagiography, and the Supernatural in So Far from God," explore la manière dont ce roman poursuit les traditions baroques coloniales de l'allégorie, de l'hagiographie, et des miracles. Le deuxième chapitre, "Robo-baroque: The Performances of Guillermo Gómez-Peña and his Pocha Nostra," examine les legs colonial-baroques qui saturent les performances de Guillermo Gómez-Peña et de son groupe de performance, La Pocha Nostra. Ce legs se traduit par une superposition de conventions baroques —l'allégorie, l'hagiographie, et le wünderkammer— ainsi que par une organisation spatiale et temporelle intensément baroque, qui exploite les pouvoirs de la décentralisation, du pluralisme, de l'espace coextensif et de la sérialité. Le troisième chapitre, "Amalia Mesa-Bains's Domesticana Baroque," se penche sur les œuvres d'installation d'Amalia Mesa-Bains, enquêtant sur la manière dont ces installations utilisent des conventions du wünderkammer et du vanitas, à travers les concepts du miroir et du pli, afin de parler des systèmes de connaissances baroques, des identités féminines non-occidentales et des espaces intérieurs féminins. Finalement, la conclusion relie les œuvres étudiées dans la thèse et explique les avantages de la pensée chicana-baroque.
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Holmes, Christina M. "Chicana Environmentalisms: Deterritorialization as a Practice of Decolonization." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1282104799.
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Móntez, Melissa I. "Let Your Panza be Your Guide: Decolonizing Fat in Chicanx Art and Literature." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/856.
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Representations of Chicana bodies in dominant popular culture have historically been contested by Chicana feminists’ own self-representations through art and literature. However, few works examine representations of fat Chicana bodies in literature by Chicana feminists. Through a literary analysis of The Panza Monologues and Real Women Have Curves, as well as an artistic analysis of Laura Aguilar’s photography and through the lenses of Chicanx, queer, and fat studies, my research bridges a gap between Chicana feminist work and fat studies. It looks at how fatness is constructed through the self-representation of women’s bodies. Ultimately, I argue that these art objects are sites of fat Chicana artivism—activism through the use of art—that call for body liberation, respond to the “normative body” required by a colonial legacy of symbolic and physical violence against Chicanx women, and pave the way for further creative artistic and literary work centered on fat Chicanxs to be done.
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Baird, Wyllys Thomson, and Anne Elizabeth Winker. "Cityfront Center, Chicago, Illinois : the design and approval processes." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71399.
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Prono, Luca. "Radical discontinuities : literary and sociological representations of Chicago 1915-1948." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270287.
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Tang, Wencan M. C. P. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Office rent and labor availability in the Chicago Metropolitan Area." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45368.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2008.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 46-49).<br>This paper provides an empirical analysis of office rents using data from the 2000 U.S. Census and TWR office building data in the Chicago Metropolitan Statistical Area. The results indicate that rent levels respond to variables measuring labor availability. The relationship between spatial supply of office space and labor availability is also explored. Balanced scenarios are estimated in each unit area, and areas with an under-supply of office space demonstrate development opportunities. Land use regulation is suggested to explain the difference between the model results of the office rent and of the supply of office space.<br>by Wencan Tang.<br>M.C.P.
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Chaudary, Faiza A. (Faiza Arshad). "Valuation of the Indiana Toll Road and Chicago Skyway privatizations." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/57876.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2010.<br>Page 5 missing. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-153).<br>This thesis analyzes the economics and financing of the recent purchases of the Indiana Toll Road and Chicago Skyway. Similar privatizations have been occurring around the world, but the economic motive for such transactions has been unclear. The analysis attempts to isolate the costs and benefits of such transactions as the transfer of the asset from public to private owner takes place. I examine whether the privatization would have been financially beneficial for the State of Indiana or the City of Chicago if it did not face budget constraints or political constraints on raising tolls. There seems to be significant disadvantage of such deals absent these constraints. I show this by computing value under various scenarios. After analyzing the results, I conclude by highlighting the policy implications for such privatization deals in future.<br>by Faiza Arshad.<br>M.C.P.
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Acosta-Salazar, Angela. "California community college Chicana/Latina trustee trailblazers| In their own words." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3647113.
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<p> Community college trustees are critical to the success of the organization and the students they serve because they provide the voice of local needs in alignment with the college mission. Community college trusteeship in California is vital given the changing student demographic, the growing number of Latinos enrolled, and their need for responsive institutions. The diversity of the board is therefore critical to ensuring that the diverse needs are being met. However, little is known about the lives of California's community college trustees and how they transform educational settings. </p><p> The purpose of this qualitative study is to shed light on the personal, educational, professional, and trusteeship journey of five Chicana/Latina trailblazers, the first Chicana/Latinas to be elected to their district. Using testimonio methodology to give voice to this group of women, this study is set in the Chicana Feminist Epistemological stance, which put these participants in the center of this study, providing the participants an opportunity to co-create knowledge, and allowed the researcher to apply the use of Chicana intuition, to guide the study design. The theoretical framework, Latino Critical Theory (LatCrit) was used as the analytical lens exposing raced, classed, and gendered experiences in the school setting. Through the use of a LatCrit lens, this study exposed the participant's experiential knowledge, critical to their successful navigation oftheir trusteeship, creating more responsive institutions. </p><p> The findings reveal that these participants, as a collective, felt the trauma of the race, class and gendered experiences in the educational setting. These experiences shaped their worldview. Nonetheless the women developed aspirations to become educators and these aspirations led them to college where they were able to move beyond internal oppression by developing a social consciousness and develop a Chicana identity. These experiences led them to social activism, which served as the path to community college trusteeship. They became the first Chicana/Latina community college trustees in their district, taking a seat at the dais and it is there that these trailblazers created a legacy of inclusion and transformed the educational setting.</p>
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Carreon, Orlando. "Effective Teaching of Chican/Latin Students| A Community Responsive Approach." Thesis, University of California, Davis, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10934196.
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<p> The search for effective teaching methods of Chican@/Latin@ students reached a new level of complexity when it was found that Chican@/Latin@ students who participated in the Mexican American/Raza Studies program (MARSD) in Tucson, Arizona were outperforming their White counterparts in academic achievement measures (Cabrera, Milem, Jaquette, & Marx, 2014). Rather than praise the MAS program and direct educational researchers to learn and replicate the effective teaching strategies of the program, powerful educational stakeholders sent lawyers and passed legislation HB 2281 which created the legal rationale to terminate the program (Cabrera et al., 2014). This raises the question: How serious are we as a society, including the field of Education, about closing achievement gaps and learning about effective teaching strategies of Chican@/Latin@ students? History may have the answer. </p><p> We know that the field of Education has historically failed Chican@/Latin@ students and other working class students of color in general (Duncan-Andrade, 2005b; Ladson-Billings, 1998; Noguera, Hurtado, & Fergus, 2013). Research in education of Chican@/Latin@/Chicano studies has extensive data illustrating school failure in the form of “drop out” or “push out” rates, low graduation rates, and low performance on academic achievement measures, for Chicano/a students (Luna & Revilla, 2013; Yosso, 2006). When you add that in places like California, Chican@/Latin@ students represent more than 53% of students enrolled in public schools, understanding how to effectively teach the largest demographic population becomes an ethical concern (California Department of Education, 2013-2014). </p><p> This study examines effective teaching of Chican@/Latin@ students in Hope Valley (pseudonym). I use survey instruments to ask Chican@/Latin@ college students from Hope Valley Community College to identify the most effective teachers in their K-12 experience. This form of community nomination is unique in the educational research in that it honors the pedagogical knowledge of young adults, rather than the conventional sources of knowledge (e.g., teachers, parents, scholars, and other educational researchers). The results of the survey lead me inside the classroom of these community nominated teachers, where I use ethnographic methods to learn about their efficacy as identified by their former students. This study asserts that a strengths-based community responsive approach to understanding effective teaching of Chican@/Latin@ students increases local capacity for community members and educational stakeholders to build on the unique pedagogical strengths of their own community.</p><p>
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Herrera, Prisma L. "“An Awakening of Critical Consciousness: Unfurlings of (Re)Memory, Resistance and Resiliency”." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1181.
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This thesis does not adhere to “traditional” academic criteria which I feel tends to be rigid, constrained ways of regurgitating knowledge. It is not easily digestible, nor is it something that offers concrete answers. Rather it is a critical understanding of many of my experiences in the last four years of education, with a specific focus on the most recent events that have unfolded in my personal and academic life. This thesis is a journey. It is by witnessing communities in New York City, Bolivia, Tlaxcala, Mexico City, Chiapas and Southern California that continue to struggle and hope in the face of neoliberal, power-hungry nation-states, that propels me forward and brings me hope and a renewed sense of consciousness as to where I want to go.
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Bates, Justin (Justin Timothy). "Many voices, one wilderness : collaborative conservation in the greater Chicago region." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73809.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2012.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-50).<br>There has been a growing recognition in the conservation community that landscape-scale networks of preserves and habitat corridors are needed to adequately protect native biodiversity. While most of the efforts to protect land on this scale have occurred in rural environments dominated by resource lands, an increasing number of efforts are occurring in urban environments. These locales are characterized by biological and political fragmentation that complicate landscape-scale conservation. Chicago Wilderness, a voluntary network of 262 conservation organizations operating in the greater Chicago region, is one group undertaking this work. I use Chicago Wilderness as a case study to explore how voluntary conservation coalitions convince their membership to both adopt and implement regional conservation plans. I identify a number of barriers that prevent coalition members from collaborating and make the work of protecting biodiversity difficult; these include limiting factors like inter-organizational trust, funding, access to information, staff capacity, and political climate. Chicago Wilderness has sought to overcome these barriers by adopting strategies that prioritize information sharing, technical assistance, and relationship building, and that increase public involvement with biodiversity protection. I argue that Chicago Wilderness' mixed success across the region has been closely tied to the conservation strategies that it implicitly promotes. The coalition has been most successful in areas that are accepting of top-down, government-led conservation solutions like direct acquisition and land use regulation. The coalition has been less successful in areas-most often at the edge of the metropolitan area-where citizens and political officials value private property rights and limited government intervention. I conclude with suggestions on how Chicago Wilderness can increase its effectiveness and further promote biodiversity protection across the region.<br>by Justin Bates.<br>M.C.P.
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Sengupta, Annis Whitlow. "Politics on parade : immigration, ethnicity and national identity in Chicago, IL." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70414.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2012.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>Parades are many things. They are treasured annual traditions, community gatherings, expressions of identity and pride. Parades interrupt the daily flow of city life, rerouting traffic, crowding sidewalks and public transportation, and interrupting business activities. Parades are revealing. They are a stage for the performance of identities and interests that are otherwise invisible to the average city resident. Parades are deceptive. They present an image of unity and order that belies the messy and contested nature of collective identity formation. They appear to be emergent cultural practices, but they are more likely aggregate culture than to produce it. They embody stable relationships as much as they inspire spontaneous participation. Parades are public expressions of communities' identities, interests, and values. As such they are like distorted mirrors reflecting the hopes and fears of not just one community but many communities and ultimately of the larger society. This dissertation examines one type of parade - the American ethnic parade - to understand the shifting meaning of ethnicity and nationalism in Chicago, Illinois, from its origins in the nineteenth century to its present twenty-first century context. The question driving this research is how national identities can accommodate change and incorporate new members (such as immigrants and minorities). More specifically, it examines what ethnic parades in one American city can tell us about this process. An in-depth historical analysis uses the history of ethnic parades in Chicago to explore the shifting politics of immigrant incorporation from 1860 until 1990. Drawing on thirty-seven interviews conducted with parade organizers, local scholars, and city officials as well as observation of parades, parade planning meetings and other community events, analysis of Chicago's contemporary ethnic parades illuminates the myriad functions of ethnic during Chicago's transition to a global city. Specifically, it explores how expressions of hybridized nationalism in ethnic parades disguise a complex interplay among local political integration, economic advancement, and transnational political activism that is shaping Chicago's local ethnic communities.<br>by Annis Whitlow Sengupta.<br>Ph.D.
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Ryan, Angela Rose. "Education for the People: The Third World Student Movement at San Francisco State College and City College of New York." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275416332.
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Li, Han. "Modeling Gentrification on Census Tract Level in Chicago from 1990 to 2000." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1336064031.
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Ekerdt, Molly H. (Molly Heinzmann). "Where have all the brownfields gone? : lessons for Chicago 15 years in." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49696.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2009.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-152).<br>The Chicago Brownfields Initiative was born of a high profile and well-respected public planning process to change the "brownfields" project from one that relied on liability to one that relied on private investment to clean up and redevelop contaminated surplus land. Its recommendations successfully shaped many of the state and federal tools in use 15 years later. Today, despite a large portfolio of unremediated brownfields, the project has lost its visibility and urgency. Using interviews with program stakeholders past and present and other materials, the thesis examines why the program's political cachet waned and the problem narrowed to focus on real estate development apart from broader disinvestment challenges. Using data from the Illinois Site Remediation Program and other Chicago geospatial data, this thesis shows that the results of an incomplete Initiative were mixed, specifically the geographic distribution of site remediation and the success of publicly initiated projects. The case of the Initiative provides insight into the complexities of environmental, economic development and redevelopment policy in the City of Chicago and why a truly "green" city is difficult to achieve. This thesis argues that the City of Chicago, in the context of a region experiencing similar economic and environmental questions, is poised to transform the urban brownfields project again, from a real estate scheme to a multi-faceted system that does not wait for investment, but shapes demand to guide clean-up and redevelopment in the city.<br>by Molly H. Ekerdt.<br>M.C.P.
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Cordova, Amanda Jo. "Chicana Feminism Informs Educational Trajectories and Leadership| Graduate Student Testimonios from Nepantla." Thesis, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10928787.
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<p> This qualitative testimonio study centered the voices of two Chicana graduate students and two doctoral students of an Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Program to examine how they interpret the positioning of their intersectionality as well as how these interpretations influenced their college trajectories and conceptualization of educational leadership. Chicana Feminist Epistemology grounded the investigation to claim research as a site of equality where collaborators participated fully in data collection and data analysis. Methods of plática and reflexión were employed to engage collaborators in a critical reflection of their lived experiences relevant to their intersectionality with the aim of translating these reflections into individual testimonios. Specifically, a Mestiza Methodology Framework was introduced as a model in which collaborators integrated data collection and data analysis to yield a synthesis, analysis, and interpretation of their testimonios presented in the format of a collective testimonio. </p><p> Findings demonstrated by interrogating the imposition of dualities that split the intersections of their identity, collaborators located Nepantla, the space between these dualities to excavate knowledge from El Cenote, the intersection of dualities. From El Cenote findings revealed the family as an intersection of identity with the largest influence on initial educational trajectories defined at the undergraduate level. In addition, overall educational experiences fragmented Chicana intersectionality operating to threaten their academic survival. Lastly, the search for the healing and reconciliation of a fragmented identity reset educational trajectories towards advanced degrees in Educational Leadership framed by a praxis of social justice.</p><p>
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Torphy, Stefanie A. "The politics of school reform in Chicago : the impact of mayoral control in the Black Community /." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488192119265817.
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Nooney, Deborah Ann. "Foreign direct investment in Chicago real estate : are foreign investors different from domestic investors?" Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76410.
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Dominguez-Martinez, Rodrigo. "Immigration, Organization-Based Resources, and Urban Violence| An Analysis of Latino Neighborhoods in Chicago." Thesis, Northern Illinois University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10267498.
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<p> The Latino paradox of crime suggests that relative to other groups with similar rates of economic disadvantage, Latinos fare a lot better in a wide array of social indices, including the propensity to violence and crime. While previous studies tend to overestimate the role of community members in creating the conditions under which violent crime occurs, very few have examined the direct role of the ‘disorganizing’ or ‘organizing’ factors that result from political turf wars. This study will examine the ways in which the mobilization of resources and organizational infrastructures affect the immigration-crime nexus. In an effort to better understand the Latino paradox associated with crime, this study shall critically examine how organization-based resources affect variations in violent crime rate among Latino neighborhoods in the City of Chicago.</p><p>
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Glenn, Max D. "Baby's First Steps: A Microhistory of The Chicago Neo-Futurists." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1417526782.
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Martinez, Garcia Mariana I. "Chicanos in education : an examination of the 1968 east Los Angeles student walkouts!" Scholarly Commons, 2008. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/695.
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In 1968 the Los Angeles community witnessed the up rise of thousands of Chicano students when they walked out of their high school on an early morning in March. The purpose of this study was to further understand the 1968 student walkouts as presented by student participants. The study was carried out as a phenomenological study and used a Critical Race Theory (CRT) framework to interpret the students' interpretation of the Walkouts.
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Misa, Christina Marie. "Marginalized multiplicities : the journeys of Chicana/Latina lesbian and bisexual high school students /." Connect to online resource, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3250294.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-02, Section: A, page: 0425. Adviser: Laurence Parker. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 149-158) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.
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Kirschbaum, Julie B. "Paying for transit operations : challenges and solutions for the Chicago Transit Authority." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17714.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2004.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-144).<br>This research identifies the challenges Chicagoland must confront to maintain a quality transit system. It analyzes the organizational and funding structure of the Regional Transportation Authority and its three service providers, including the Chicago Transit Authority. This investigation revealed that the greatest regional challenges are declining ridership (especially on bus) and increasing congestion from limited subsidies and a cost recovery statute. To address these challenges a series of alternatives were evaluated using a framework that considers revenue potential, incidence, side effects, and political feasibility. Based on this analysis, a four part strategy is recommended: 1. Change the current distribution formula. Unless a new allocation formula is established, CTA may not benefit from increased resources. The new formula should reduce reliance on discretionary funds by stabilizing current funding levels to the three service providers. 2. Increase RTA revenues. Currently the two wealthiest counties in the region (DuPage and Lake) pay significantly less than Cook County while enjoying comparable service. The RTA should increase their sales tax contributions to improve regional equity and increase resources. These resources should be used to address growing paratransit needs.<br>(cont.) 3. Develop a set of performance measures that respond to distinct transit markets. Rather than focusing exclusively on the cost recovery ratio, which risks the long-term vitality of the system, the RTA should develop a set of performance measures that maximize efficiencies within markets. This will allow the region to control costs, while still protecting weaker markets like bus and paratransit. 4. Include a transit pass as part of the personal vehicle registration tax. Having people prepay for transit services will provide an incentive for replacing some automobile trips, while generating regional subsidies. In the short run, this funding mechanism will serve as an incentive for RTA to promote fare integration. If expanded over time, it offers RTA the opportunity to increase transit service. The above recommendations will help reverse the current negative trends and stabilize ridership; however to increase ridership and mode share, more subsidy will be needed. Other promising revenue generators should be considered in the future to meet these goals.<br>by Julie B. Kirschbaum.<br>S.M.<br>M.C.P.