| Owner: |
Freyca Calderon-Berumen
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| Owner Email: |
fxc85@psu.edu
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| Paper Title: |
The Masks We Wear: Rebel, Resist, Refuse
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| Session Title: |
World-Making Feminist Pedagogies and Praxes
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| Paper Type: |
Paper
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| Presentation Date: |
4/13/2024
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| Presentation Location: |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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| Descriptors: |
Coloniality, Decoloniality, Social Justice
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| Methodology: |
Conceptual/Theoretical
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| Author(s): |
Freyca Calderon-Berumen, Pennsylvania State University - Altoona; Miryam Espinosa-Dulanto, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley; Karla O'Donald, Texas Christian University
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| Unit: |
SIG-Decolonial, Postcolonial, and Anti-Colonial Studies in Education
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| Abstract: |
We are called to explore the use of masks as a decolonial tool in academic spaces as Latin American women, Mestizas, and Neplanteras scholars. Drawing inspiration from Anzaldúa and Marcos, we present our theoretical conceptualization of masking as a way to navigate white Eurocentric dominant spaces while challenging traditional expectations. The masks we use serve as a means of resistance, allowing us to traverse colonial practices/traditions and produce decolonial scholarship. Through pláticas and testimonios, we create spaces for collective knowledge production, embracing our mestiza identities, and disrupting dehumanizing colonial structures in academia.
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| DOI: |
https://doi.org/10.3102/2104176
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