Framing Chicana/o/x resistance amid a pandemic: an oral history

Duran, Lorena (2023) Framing Chicana/o/x resistance amid a pandemic: an oral history. Masters thesis, Northern Arizona University.

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Abstract

The COVID-19 outbreak impacted political and social polarization across all sections of society, even those who are most impacted by the health and economic hardships caused by the pandemic. Chicana/o/x face many vulnerabilities to the pandemic due to their already marginalized status in the United States. Even so, this population still carries varying and conflicting views and behaviors of the pandemic. The analysis of this social group's responses to the pandemic reveals social problems both interior to the Mexican American experience and exterior to the ways United States systems and institutions operate to push marginalized communities to approach social issues in harmful ways. This project is an oral history of Northern Arizona University Chicana/o/x students’ experiences through the coronavirus pandemic. Decolonizing methodologies and Chicana feminisms are used to support participants' oral histories (Espinoza, Cotera, and Blackwell, 2018; Hurtardo, 2003, 2021; Tuhwai, 2021). Oral histories are necessary for recognizing, representing, and reclaiming Chicana/o/x’s voices and knowledges in academia. Acknowledging the unique Chicana/o/x experience of the pandemic is a matter of social justice and decolonization.

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Publisher’s Statement:	© Copyright is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the Cline Library, Northern Arizona University. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author.
Keywords:	Assimilation; Chicana Feminisms; Chicanismo; Coronavirus; Mexican American; Survivance; Northern Arizona University students
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
NAU Depositing Author Academic Status:	Student
Department/Unit:	Graduate College > Theses and Dissertations College of Social and Behavioral Science > Sociology and Social Work
Date Deposited:	30 Aug 2023 17:17
Last Modified:	30 Aug 2023 17:17
URI:	https://openknowledge.nau.edu/id/eprint/6109

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