This thesis locates Cherríe Moraga's coloniality of Being within her work A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness, and how it functions along with what I interpret as Moraga's decoloniality of becoming. I elucidate Moraga's engagement in these overla . . .

This creative project examines the use and impact that Chicano visual arts have made on social justice movements and its current influence. My focus in this research is art that inspires social change, mass movements and is at its core is subversive, . . .

This research focuses on the ethnic identity development of second-generation Mazalteca/o young adults in Mexico City and Los Angeles, California. It examines the historical context of colonization as well as Mexico's Indigenismo movement and mestizaj . . .

To determine the ways Latino community gardeners challenge the capitalist notion of time by using gardening as a self-valorizing process of work, six Latino community gardeners were interviewed in-depth. These semi-structured interviews involved parti . . .

The demographics of the U.S. are constantly and rapidly changing, and such changes are often reflected in schools, where classroom populations are becoming more diverse and multicultural. Even U.S. Latinas/os, who are often thought of as a monolingual . . .

The study examines the results of the case study analysis of Soul Rebel Radio and the use of space and location by the Chican@ community in the Third World Left in Los Angeles. The term Chican@ is used interchangeably for Chicanas and Chicanos, and th . . .

Chicana/o Latina/o students compose the largest ethnic group at the California State University Northridge (CSUN), representing 36% of the campus population. Yet, they have the second lowest retention rate of all ethnic groups. This qualitative case s . . .

Healing Historical Trauma with Indigenous Medical Pathways: A Chicana/o Decolonial Remedy for Reclamation of an Indigenous Identity By David Hernandez Jr. Masters of Arts in Chicana and Chicano Studies This thesis examines historical trauma as a conse . . .

Community schools have shifted the way in which schools provide in-and-out of classroom supports to meet the unique needs of its students and families. Community schools welcomes its community to share responsibility in addressing the disparities that . . .

This body of work explores present-day manifestations of Danza Azteca and Mesoamerican body art, and their connection to the development of Chicana/o indigenous identities and resistance against marginalization and erasure of their indigenous heritage . . .