"Hips don't lie" : Mexican American female students' identity construction at The University of Texas at Austin

"Hips don't lie" : Mexican American female students' identity construction at The University of Texas at Austin

While a university education is sold to students as something anyone can achieve, their particular social location influences who enters this space. Mexican American women, by virtue of their intersecting identities as racialized women in the US, have to adopt a particular identity if they are to su...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Portillo, Juan Ramon
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2012
Subjects:
Chicana feminism
Mexican American
Female student
University
College
Identity
Agency
Resistance
Mestiza consciousness
Texas
Austin
Latina
Stereotypes
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-08-6189

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http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-08-6189

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