Bilingual and Literacy Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

Chicana/Latina Testimonios as Pedagogical, Methodological, and Activist Approaches to Social Justice. Edited by Delgado Bernal D., Burciaga R., & Flores Carmona J., New York, NY: Routledge. 2015, 194 pp. $120.50.

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

11-5-2018

Abstract

We write this book review as the Testimonio Study Group (TSG). The TSG is an emergent, growing, and open-ended research collective whose members have been Texas residents with strong ties to the education systems of the US/Mexico Borderlands and Latin America. We write this review of Dolores Delgado Bernal, Rebecca Burciaga, and Judith Flores Carmona’s Chicana/Latina Testimonios as Pedagogical, Methodological, and Activist Approaches to Social Justice to express a debt of gratitude to Delgado Bernal et al.’s edited volume for advancing testimonio research in education and for advancing decolonizing and transcontinental testimonio traditions in education research. In this review, we situate the book within the emergent scholarship on Chicana feminist research epistemology and characterize its contents by exploring three chapters that are representative of the book’s contents. We conclude this review with an invitation to a subjunctive dialog emphasizing the view to the South, or la mirada al Sur, as old/new historicized, decolonizing, and transcontinental direction for testimonio research in education.

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Copyright 2018 American Educational Studies Association

Publication Title

Educational Studies: A Journal of the American Educational Studies Association

DOI

10.1080/00131946.2018.1509863

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