Reinterpretation of Spiritual Autobiography Genre in Richard Rodriguez’s Darling by Viktor Rakhnianskyi, Oleksandra Chernikova, Polina Khabotniakova, Anna Gaidash

“…For a long time, this author had been placed outside the canon of Chicano literature and was considered an ‘outsider’ because of his statement that he was not a representative of a minority but a supporter of the assimilation of immigrants into the broader mainstream American society. …”
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A Wall of One’s Own: Latinas Reclaiming Spaces, Subverting Economies, Empowering Communities by Carmen M. Méndez-García

“…By studying the three pieces in their geographical, social, and artistic context, I intend to demonstrate that issues denounced by the Chicano Civil Rights Movement (also known as El Movimiento) and the Feminist Movement in the 1970s are still unresolved in 21st century America.…”
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Classroom-world. Practices to decolonize the university training of professionals in educational and care work by Maria Livia Alga

“…How do decolonial theories and practices help reconfigure imaginaries and rethink professionalisms? In dialogue with Chicano and Caribbean literature (Anzaldua e Moraga, 2002; Glissant 1990, 1998, 2009), with the feminist theories of women of color (Mohanty Talpade, 2003; hooks, 2020, 2023), the article explores the idea of ​​difference from a decolonial perspective, relating it to the issues of partiality of knowledge and oppression. …”
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Physical and mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic among college students who are undocumented or have undocumented parents by Annie Ro, Victoria E. Rodriguez, Laura E. Enriquez

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Claims by Anglo American feminists and Chicanas/os for alternative space: The LA art scene in the political 1970s by Eva Zetterman

“…Abstract: Originating in the context of the Civil Rights Movements and political activities addressing issues of race, gender and sexuality, the Women’s Liberation movement and the Chicano Movement became departures for two significant counter art movements in Los Angeles in the 1970s. …”
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Forward Editor's Introduction by Jennifer A. Reimer

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Discursive (Re)Contruction of Mexican American Identity in J. Gonzo's La Mano del Destino by Anna Marta Marini

“…Playing with symbolism, careful detailing, and defined artistic choices, the Chicano author delves into his own passion for both lucha libre and Silver Age comics; he also tackles matters related with the quest for identity, as well as the imposed subject positions intrinsic to the belonging to a minority group in the United States. …”
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Dialogue between Language and Literature: A dialogical analysis of Gloria Anzaldúa’s El Sonavabitche and its implications by Orison Marden Bandeira de Melo Junior

“…This poem, selected as a representative of the Chicano Literature, a segment of contemporary American Literature, brings the experience of illegal Mexican workers in the United States close to that of slaves in that country (social significance). …”
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Lugares de enunciación inestables by Silvia Tieffemberg

“…En este marco de sentido es posible establecer un diálogo entre fenómenos en apariencia disímiles: los colectivos artísticos de los ‘mapuche urbanos’; la producción de Guillermo Gómez-Peña, un ‘chicano’ en San Francisco; la Argentina de Ruy Díaz de Guzmán; y Vigilia del almirante de Augusto Roa Bastos.…”
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The Dynamics of Physical and Symbolic Borders in Transcultural Space in A Better Life (2011): Its Impact on Intersubjective Relations and Cultural Transformation by María Marcela González de Gatti

“…The film contains a complex, ambiguous, and protean representation of the transcultural experiences of a Mexican illegal alien and his Chicano son in the American cross-border territory. …”
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El lector al centro: análisis del enfoque didáctico de literacidad cultural by Eloísa Alcocer Vázquez, Myrna Balderas Garza, Jafet Ix Caamal

“…Se analizan los productos generados por 20 maestros en formación en el área del idioma inglés que convivieron con un escritor chicano. Se encontró que cada lector fue capaz de interpretar y dar sentido a la actividad a través de diversos géneros de escritura. …”
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Flora y fauna crónica (Flora & fauna chronicles) by Susana Chávez-Silverman

“…One of Susana’s crónicas, “Anniversary Crónica,” inspired by the wedding anniversary of Susana’s parents and by the so-called “Soweto Riots” in South Africa, was recently awarded First prize in Personal Memoir in the Chicano Literary Excellence Contest sponsored by the U.S. national literary magazine el Andar.…”
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‘Once you get the card you can do anything you want.’ Migrant Identities and Gender Transgression in Chicana Dramatic Literature by Marta Fernández Morales

“…Abstract: Issues of migration, frontiers and identity are recurrent in Chicano/a literature. In Real Women Have Curves the protagonists are conditioned by la migra as much as by race stereotyping and gender limits, living in a metaphoric frontera between clandestine existence and public acknowledgement; between curvy, dark-skinned beauty, and white, androgynous images of womanly perfection. …”
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Flora y fauna crónica by Susana Chávez-Silverman

“…One of Susana’s crónicas, “Anniversary Crónica,” inspired by the wedding anniversary of Susana’s parents and by the so-called “Soweto Riots” in South Africa, was recently awarded First prize in Personal Memoir in the Chicano Literary Excellence Contest sponsored by the U.S. national literary magazine <i>el Andar</i>.…”
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Food insecurity and utilization of campus food resources differ by demographic and academic group by Zoee Tanner, Brittany Loofbourrow, Gwen Chodur, Leslie Kemp, Rachel Scherr

“…Both first-generation and fourth- year students disproportionately experience food insecurity and utilize campus food resources more. Latino(a)/Chicano(a)/Hispanic students are twice as likely to experience food insecurity and 49% more likely to use food resources than white/European American students. …”
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Dramaturgies of humour in the performance of protest by Sruti Bala, Veronika Zangl

“…The cases examined are the procession of “the human gorging society” by Viennese collective Rebelodrom in 2013, the 2012 lecture-performance “The Return of Border Brujo” by Chicano performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña and the ongoing Tracking Transience project by US-American artist Hasan Elahi. …”
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Descolonizar el pasado. Perspectivas críticas con los legados coloniales en la historia y la historiografía by Javier García Fernández

“…The critique of Eurocentrism in the social sciences encompasses currents such as postcolonial critique, subaltern studies, decolonial theory, Afro-American Marxism, Chicano and border feminism, indigenous thought, and epistemologies of the South. …”
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Attachment insecurity, heart rate variability, and perceived social support in a diverse sample of young adults by Vida Pourmand, Nicole M. Froidevaux, DeWayne P. Williams, Ilona S. Yim, Belinda Campos, Belinda Campos

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A mulher-herói chicana: revisitando a picaresca em «The Mixquiahuala letters» e «Paletitas de guayaba» by Carla de Figueiredo Portilho

“…</p><strong>Keywords</strong>: Chicano literature; <em>The Mixquiahuala letters</em>; Ana Castillo; <em>Paletitas de guayaba</em>;  Erlinda González-Berry; Spanish literature; picaresque…”
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Portable borders/mythical sites : performance art and politics on the US Frontera, 1968-present by Sheren, Ila Nicole

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