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This dissertation is a qualitative testimonio study that documents the reflections and experiences of twenty Mexican/Latinx Chicago teachers through a Latino Critical Race (LatCrit) Studies in Education theoretical lens. These testimonios contribute to the ongoing documentation …

Jorge Asís's narrative voices are transformed from on text to another. The Arab-Argentine author creates multiple narrators that interact with one another to further develop their textual identities. Discussions of authorial and narrative voices often coalesce into broad stateme…

At a time when scholars have rekindled the old debate about what is world literature and how can one study it (Casanova, 2004; Moretti, 2000, 2003; Damrosch, 2003, 2009), this thesis analyses the canonisation of Central American Revolutionary women's writing as it moves toward t…

In Diversity in Families, sociologists Maxine Baca Zinn, D. Stanley Eitzen, and Barbara Wells assert, “At a very personal level, families are crucial shapers of who we are and what our opportunities have been and will be” (xvii). The novels in this dissertation—Octavia Butler’s …

This research explores the rhetorical features and effects of testimonies (testimonios) in light of revolutionary movements and civil wars that developed in Central America during the Cold War. This non-fiction genre recounts first person narratives of real experiences of guerri…

This study seeks to unearth, through methods of autoethnography and reflective self-inquiry, what can be learned about the development of personal and professional identity through the gaze of a Black male member of the academy by analyzing the various interactions and encounter…

The testimonios of re(membering), (re)claiming, and (re)immersion of 13 Mexican and Mexican American participants into their Mesoamerican ancestral spiritual ways provide a living archive for stories that have been erased or invisibilized by colonization and cultural assimilatio…

As the student population in U.S. public schools becomes more diverse, with an increase of students of color and from low socioeconomic backgrounds, it is critical that the opportunity gaps in our education system are addressed to provide an equitable education for urban youth. …

The testimonio genre has been at the center of discussions around the connections between literature and politics in Latin American over the past third-five years. Multiple authors have attempted to define its generic characteristics, focusing on the role of the first person, th…