The “Other” Mexicans: Indigenous Yucatec-Maya Students’ Experiences with Perceived Discrimination

Casanova, Saskias

doi:10.1080/15348431.2022.2102496

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“…And where are the similarities in advantaged and disadvantaged peoples' lived experiences given that these social categories are inherently different? These three questions have provided the foundation for a plethora of studies on how intersectional identities (e.g., immigration, ableness, religion, body image, sexuality, education, and career) result in individual and group experiences of privilege and oppression during adolescence and young adulthood (Burns et al 2023, Casanova 2022, Cole 2009, Fish & Counts 2021, Hammack et al 2022, Hurtado 2018.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Critical consciousness is useful for addressing the development of intersectional social identities and how these identities develop alongside an understanding of discrimination and resistance (Casanova 2022, Diemer & Li 2011, Langhout 2005. Scholars have proposed that researchers consider the effects of oppression and discrimination, how people resist these systems, and how this resistance contributes to resilience and positive identity development (Marks et al 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They have fostered academic and pedagogical paradigms that allow for the agency of Indigenous youth and their communities to be recognized and valued rather than dismissed. Focusing on indigeneity as a social location spotlights their unique intersectional experiences with intragroup discrimination (Casanova 2022). This focus provides a perspective on how Indigenous Latinx youth and their communities resist the oppressive and colonial structures that have historically devalued their cultural knowledge systems (Casanova et al 2021, Urrieta 2019.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The development of social identities for minoritized children and youth occurs within various contexts and systems, including educational institutions (Rivas-Drake et al 2014, Rogers et al 2021b, Suárez-Orozco et al 2018. In this regard, intersectionality can be a tool in educational research that examines how the systemic and institutional inequities faced by minoritized students' axes of marginalization and oppression impact their learning and educational pathways (Artiles 2013, Casanova 2022, Covarrubias 2011, Núñez 2014. Education scholars have expanded the application of intersectionality theory (Harris & Leonardo 2018) and urged for more epistemic inclusion in high-impact journals when using an intersectional lens ( Joseph et al 2021).…”

Section: Intersectional Educational Pathways and Strengths-based Pers...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Social Identities and Intersectionality: A Conversation About the What and the How of Development

Azmitia,

Garcia Peraza,

Casanova

2023

Annu. Rev. Dev. Psychol.

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Research on the development of social identities in early and middle childhood has largely focused on gender; increasingly, however, theory and research have addressed the development of ethnic/racial, social class, sexual, and immigrant identities. Moreover, it is assumed that individuals’ thinking about and articulating of the intersectionality between their social identities emerge in adolescence and young adulthood, but a growing body of work has shown that minoritized children conceptualize their intersectional identities by middle childhood. This article reviews that work and addresses how interdisciplinary scholarship and quantitative and qualitative methodologies can deepen our understanding of the development of social identities and intersectionality. We take a contextual approach to investigate how relational and cultural contexts contour the socialization of social and intersectional identities. Most of our review focuses on theory and research in the United States; however, because we aim to consider immigrant identity, we also include theory and research on how immigrant families and communities help minoritized children and youth navigate their identities in schools and communities and cope with discrimination.

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Section: History Definitions and Metaphors Of Intersectionalitymentioning

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confidence: 99%

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Social Identities and Intersectionality: A Conversation About the What and the How of Development

Azmitia,

Garcia Peraza,

Casanova

2023

Annu. Rev. Dev. Psychol.

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Thresholds of liminality: discourse and embodiment from separation to consummation among Guatemalan Maya youth workers in Los Angeles

O’Connor

Canizales

2023

International Journal of the Sociology of Language

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This paper brings contemporary scholarship on youth migration, Indigeneity, race, and language into conversation with formative work on liminality and rites of passage. Drawing on six years’ worth of participant observation and interviews with L1 Maya (primarily K’iche’) speaking Guatemalan youth workers in Los Angeles, we theorize the transformations that characterize urban immigrant life for Indigenous Latinxs in the contemporary United States as a passage through the liminal state from separation to consummation. We first analyze participants’ language behavior during the separation phase following migration, when youth sought to defend themselves from anti-Indigenous harm and discrimination through discourse practices such as cloaking or denying Maya proficiency, claiming to be Mexican or non-Indigenous Guatemalan, or avoiding speaking Spanish or K’iche’ in public. Participants also employed techniques of bodily concealment that were believed to make them less racially identifiable in physical terms. As time went on, youth felt less of a need to defend themselves from stigmas attached to Indigeneity and Guatemalan identity and began to consider possibilities for expressing ethnic and linguistic pride in communal settings. This reflection was enabled by youth’s growing embeddedness in Los Angeles’s multicultural society along with coethnic small group settings that valorized Indigeneity and invited youth to compare their trajectories to those of other immigrant groups. We acknowledge the distinctive challenges that Indigenous youth encounter as immigrants to the US. However, our findings point beyond Indigenous Latinxs’ post-migration experiences of shame, fear, and discrimination to possibilities for language maintenance and cultural pride in the context of long-term sobrevivencia, or survival, in diaspora.

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The “Other” Mexicans: Indigenous Yucatec-Maya Students’ Experiences with Perceived Discrimination

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Social Identities and Intersectionality: A Conversation About the What and the How of Development

Social Identities and Intersectionality: A Conversation About the What and the How of Development

Thresholds of liminality: discourse and embodiment from separation to consummation among Guatemalan Maya youth workers in Los Angeles

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