Compartiendo Nuestras Historias: Five Testimonios of Schooling and Survival

Abstract

This storytelling begins with a positioning of why and how we use testimonio as part of a larger project of social justice and transformative pedagogies. In this collective testimonio, 5 working-class Latina scholars tell the stories of their struggles to overcome the challenges of language and assimilation, of gender discrimination and racism, of the violence of patriarchy, and of the experience of being treated as an “alien” in one's own country.

Keywords:

• testimonio
• assimilation
• racism
• sexism
• homophobia
• memory

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We gratefully thank our friend and mentor Dr. Sofia Villenas for her support of our work and our stories.

Notes

¹In south Texas, Anglo is a term used to refer to White Euro-Americans.