RT Article
T1 "In Between Oprah and Cristina": Urban Latina Youth Producing a Countertext with Participatory Action Research
JF Social justice
VO 36
IS 4
SP 54
OP 68
A1 Sánchez, Patricia
LA English
YR 2009
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747363987
AB The article presents and discusses a participatory research action (PAR) project that focuses on transnational Mexican-Americans and their experiences in the U.S. educational system. The project undertaken by the author and three Mexican-American teenage girls involved researching the experiences of first and second-generation Mexican-Americans who travel back and forth from the U.S. to Mexico and then publishing a bilingual children's book on this transnational identity. The article discusses how these border-crossing experiences are often negatively viewed in the U.S. public school system by teachers and administrators.
K1 Cross-cultural studies
K1 Border Crossing
K1 Transnationalism
K1 Participant Observation
K1 Mexican Americans -- Ethnic identity
K1 Bilingual education
K1 Education of Mexican Americans
K1 Children's books