TY - JOUR
T1 - The xicana sacred space
T2 - A communal circle of compromiso for educational researchers
AU - Soto, Lourdes Diaz
AU - Cervantes-Soon, Claudia G.
AU - Villarreal, Elizabeth
AU - Campos, Emmet E.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The Xicana Sacred Space resulted from an effort to develop a framework that would center the complexities of Chicana ontology and epistemology as they relate to social action projects in our communities. Claiming indigenous roots and ways of knowing, the Xicana Sacred Space functions as a decolonizing tool by displacing androcentric and Western linear notions of research in favor of a Mestizo consciousness (Anzaldúa, 1999). Organically born, the space proved to be an important source of knowledge, strength, inspiration, and reflexivity for the authors in their journey as graduate students. Here the authors explain how the space evolved and detail its promise as a tool for raising consciousness, gaining strength, cultivating cultural intuition (Delgado Bernal, 1998), examining positionalities and standpoints, and achieving intellectual growth among those interested in conducting decolonial, emancipatory, and feminist research and action projects.
AB - The Xicana Sacred Space resulted from an effort to develop a framework that would center the complexities of Chicana ontology and epistemology as they relate to social action projects in our communities. Claiming indigenous roots and ways of knowing, the Xicana Sacred Space functions as a decolonizing tool by displacing androcentric and Western linear notions of research in favor of a Mestizo consciousness (Anzaldúa, 1999). Organically born, the space proved to be an important source of knowledge, strength, inspiration, and reflexivity for the authors in their journey as graduate students. Here the authors explain how the space evolved and detail its promise as a tool for raising consciousness, gaining strength, cultivating cultural intuition (Delgado Bernal, 1998), examining positionalities and standpoints, and achieving intellectual growth among those interested in conducting decolonial, emancipatory, and feminist research and action projects.
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U2 - 10.17763/haer.79.4.4k3x387k74754q18
DO - 10.17763/haer.79.4.4k3x387k74754q18
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:76749149972
SN - 0017-8055
VL - 79
SP - 755
EP - 775
JO - Harvard Educational Review
JF - Harvard Educational Review
IS - 4
ER -