Ethnic Studies emerged as an academic discipline in the late 1960s during the epoch of protest to challenge ideologies of racialized social class deeply normalized within Eurocentric knowledge that had historically depicted oppressed minoritized groups from an inferior perspective within the history of the United States. Chicana/o Studies would be one of the original four pillars of the discipline that furthered the epistemologies of Black Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) perspectives at the forefront of a knowledge base that represented a counter-narrative to the lived experiences of such communities from their standpoint.
In Las Hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed, Dr. Josie Méndez-Negrete utilizes autoethnography within a sociocultural context as a tool for describing her family’s survival. She incorporates mind as a methodology, as she relives her early experiences through a theory in the flesh (see Roediger III and Wertsch’s “Creating a New Discipline of Memory Studies”). Such theoretical...
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