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July 2004, Volume 2, Number 2, Pages 186-209
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| Necesidades y Problemas: Immigrant Latina Vernaculars of Belonging, Coalition, & Citizenship in San Francisco, California |
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| Kathleen Coll1 |
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1Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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| This essay is based on the reflections and analyses of 10 Latina immigrant grassroots community members who participated in a Chinese-Latino women's grassroots leadership development project in San Francisco in 1996. The focus of this "partial ethnography" is on what the Latina participants understood as the significance of their experiences of sustained and substantive dialogue with Chinese immigrant women in these workshops. The author argues that the language of problemas, necesidades, and convivencia that Latina participants used in describing the workshops drew on both North American and Latin American vernaculars of citizenship to produce new ideas about belonging, entitlement, and political engagement.
Latino Studies (2004) 2, 186-209. doi:10.1057/palgrave.lst.8600087 |
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| cultural citizenship; gender; racialization; community organizing; California |
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