Chicana/Latina Education in Everyday Life Quotes

“However, many of our ancestors were both the colonizers and the colonized. We embody immensely conflicting cultures.”
― Dolores Delgado Bernal, Chicana/Latina Education in Everyday Life: Feminista Perspectives on Pedagogy And Epistemology

“For me, for Chicanaos, this is a battle between the power of the colonizer and the colonized peoples and land.”
― Dolores Delgado Bernal, Chicana/Latina Education in Everyday Life: Feminista Perspectives on Pedagogy And Epistemology

“right" way to be Chicana/o also could be a hegemonic discourse and exclusionary of those who do not fit. They recognized the possibility of multiple hegemonic structures and the danger of policing claims to identity.”
― Dolores Delgado Bernal, Chicana/Latina Education in Everyday Life: Feminista Perspectives on Pedagogy And Epistemology

“I begin with the test tube labeled, with a red Sharpie marker, "Assimilation." The smell alone can make anyone lose some, if not all, sense of consciousness. The smell takes me back to a time in my vida when assimilation led to many bewildering, aching experiences that seemed to dis-member me through the infiltration of my veins with poison and marginalization, inducing me to vomit my cultura and lead my life as a vendida.”
― Dolores Delgado Bernal, Chicana/Latina Education in Everyday Life: Feminista Perspectives on Pedagogy And Epistemology