ETHNIC STUDIES PEDAGOGIES JOURNAL
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Volume 1, Issue 1 (June 2023)
Lead Editor: Ezekiel Joubert III
Theme: Ethnic Studies Pedagogies as Living Archives
Introduction to the Journal: Why a Journal on Ethnic Studies Pedagogies? [download]
Michael Dominguez, Brian Lozenski, Miguel Zavala, and Marie Nubia Feliciano
Editor’s Introduction: Ethnic Studies Pedagogies as Living Archives [download]
Ezekiel Joubert III
Lessons From the 1st Ethnic Studies Educators in O.C. [download]
Jose Paolo Magcalas
Intergenerational Pláticas as Ethnic Studies Freedom Dreaming in Kern County [download]
Tim Monreal, Felisa Patiño-Longoria, and Marlene Herera
Cultural Intuition as a Guide: Pedagogical Resonance in Ethnic Studies Teaching and Learning [download]
Cindy Mata, Sara Díaz-Montejano, Mariana E. Ramírez, and Alice Im
POETRY: Let’s Vibe by Marisol Ruiz [download]
Tiahui: A Decolonial Framework for Pedagogy & Practice [download]
Anita Fernández, Sean Arce, Jose Gonzalez, and Mictlani Gonzalez
Oral Histories and Pláticas as Ancestral Conocimientos and Ethnic Studies Pedagogies [download]
Lisa Mendoza Knecht and Sylvia Mendoza Aviña
Animal Artifacts and Narratives of the Mesoamerican Clay-Figurine Project [download]
Santiago Garcia and Priscilla Hernandez
Plantita Knowledge: A Journey of Writing a Healing Text [download]
Marisol Ruiz and Nancy Perez
ART: Butterfly Release by Lani Cupchoy [download]
Sensing Home and Archiving Self: A Black Feminist Autoethnographic Mappint to/through Ethnic Studies Pedagogies [download]
Chelsea Bouldin
Feminista Reflections of a COVID Food Project: Disrupting Pedagogical Norms, Theorizing from Homespace, and Healing Collectively [download]
Dolores Delgado Bernal, Cynthia Alonso, and Yessica Barojas
Witnessing the Pedagogical Impact of Ethnic Studies Through an Intergenerational Collaborative Autoethnography [download]
Meghan Green and Priscilla Green
The Legacies of Memory: A Liberatory Tool [download]
Aria Gilliam
ART: Ofelia y Adolfo by Clara Nieblas [download]
POETRY: Mexidorian by Joanna Flores [download]
An Emotive Testimonio Approach to Critical Race Educational History: Building Reciprocal Relationships with and for Our Communities [download]
Bryant Partida and Mariana E. Ramírez
Writing Puerto Rican Public History: Ethnic Studies Curriculum in Connecticut [download]
Elena Rosario
PHOTOGRAPHY: The Work of Memory by Boone Nguyen [download]
Weoponizing Diversity: The Survival of Ethnic Studies Pedagogies, Resistance, and Transformation amid University's Neoliberal Project of Diversity [download]
Elaine Correa and Jorge Moraga
“J’ey Alex, let’s talk about unos proyectos”: Reflections on Mestizo and Indigenous collaboration in Indigenous Latinx community filmmaking [download]
Alexander Mejía
Ethnic Studies Pedagogies as Living Archives in Black and Indigenous Americans' Dual Educational Politics [download]
Nathanial Stewart
SONGS: Re-spiriting Songs and People from Cultural Memory to Now/Future Harmonic Consciousness [download]
Gregory Esparza
Volume 1, Issue 2 (December 2023)
Lead Editor: Lani Cupchoy
Theme:Pedagogies for Creative Justice: Artivism, Digital Media, and Filmmaking
Forward [download]
Lani Cupchoy
Resistance, Empowerment and Pedagogical Possibilities in Public Spaces: Student Archival Learning with Marvyn M. Dymally, The Bridgebuilder of Los Angeles [download]
Dawn A. Dennis, Lynn V. Dymally, Azalea Camacho, Ivan Rodriguez Garcia, Rigo Garcia, and Daniel Andalon
The 4 Corners of Chinanko Hip-Hop Pedagogy [download]
Shiv R. Desai and LeRoy Saiz
A Testimony: Pasifika Media, Representation and Transformation of Community [download]
Joey Quenga
POETRY: Mi Tata by Angie Ojeda [download]
ART: Dedos del Chamuco by Teotl (Michael Villa) [download]
A Testimonio on Developing Creative Thinkers: Creating Creators and Filmmaking in K-12 Schools [download]
Hipolito Muñoz Navarrete and Jessica Just
A Testimonio on Passing Knowledge: Creating Digital Testimonios for Future Generations [download]
Rick Garcia
Nuestros Cuentos Cuentan: Storytelling as a Healing Modality in a Community College Classroom [download]
Lucha Arévalo
Bridging Youth & Community: Digital Testimonio with Maria Baeza [download]
David Ramos
The 4 I's of Liberation: Moving Beyond Oppression and onto the Struggle to be Free [download]
Kiki Ochoa and Guillermo Gomez
PHOTOGRAPHY: Yo Soy El Futuro by Felicia 'Fe' Montes [download]
ART: Darrell Richard Mural and 4 Women by Shawntay Gorman [download]
Artivism: The Social Intervention [download]
Harpreet Kaur Dhir, Meghann Kraft, Lisa Ruiz, and Helene Cunningham
Advancing Critical Digital Pedagogy: Teachers' Reflections on the Utility of Podcasting as an Instructive Tool Toward Your Wellness [download]
Tiffani Marie and Sharim Hannegan-Martinez
Negotiating Organizing Tactics and Digital Media Tools in the Fight for Critical Ethnic Studies in Public Schools [download]
Joel A. Arce, Kysa Nygreen, Laura Valdiviezo, Keisha L. Green, and Dana Altshuler
The Santa Ana Youth Media Project: YPAR and Media Advocacy [download]
Jorge F. Rodriguez
Volume 2, Issue 1 (July 2024)
Lead Editor: Lani Cupchoy
Theme:Pedagogies for Creative Justice: Artivism, Digital Media, and Filmmaking
Editor's Forward [download]
Lani Cupchoy
They Buried Us: The 10-Year Unfolding of the Xican@ Pop-Up Book [download]
Elias Serna
Darker Planets, Darker Gazes: Critical Artistic Pedagogies of Black Aesthetics as Black World Making[download]
Justin A. Coles
¡Mi Historia es Importante! Centering Ethnic Studies in the Spanish as Heritage Language Classroom [download]
Nancy Domínguez-Fret
"Unhobble([ing] Black Futures Through Visual Essay Filmmaking [download]
ParKer Bryant
Podcasting as a Pedagogical Tool to Create Latinx Youth Counterstories [download]
Gerardo Mancilla, Anjuli J. Brekke, Luz Rodriguez Camacho
Analyzing as an Artivist! Worksheet and Curriculum [download]
Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales
PLAY: The Real Story of Coatlicue and Her Coatlicue: The Moon, the Sun, and all 400 of Her Stars [download]
Jeanette Tizapapalotl Godoy
(Re)Claiming Our Cuentos [download]
Jeanette Godoy
PHOTOGRAPH: J'Ouvert [download]
Rafael Gómez
PHOTOGRAPH: Our Lady of Carmen Celebrations [download]
Rafael Gómez
PHOTOGRAPH: Resilient Tamal [download]
Andrea Mercedes Garcia
PHOTOGRAPH: Decolonial Home [download]
Andrea Mercedes Garcia
PHOTOGRAPH: Cooking Frijoles is a Revolutionary Act [download]
Andrea Mercedes Garcia
PHOTOGRAPH: I am My Brotha's Keeper [download]
Fritz Pingol
PHOTOGRAPH: Filipinxs for Black Power [download]
Fritz Pingol
PHOTOGRAPH: Please I Can't Breathe [download]
Fritz Pingol
PHOTOGRAPH: Magia y Tradición [download]
Felicia 'Fe' Montes
PAINTING: Home is the Place to Dream [download]
Emily Hsiao
FILM: Selling One Tamal at a Time [download]
Julio Henriquez
FILM: Tango: The Greatest Rock Album Never Heard [download]
Gregory Esparza
Rompiendo Silencios: Bridging Spanish Language Arts and Ethnic Studies for Archival Activism [download]
Michelle Rendón Ochoa
Volume 2, Issue 2 (December 2024)
Lead Editors: Marisol O. Ruiz & Nancy Perez
Theme:"Struggle Builds on Struggle": Resistance and Organizing Through Ethnic Studies
Introduction [download]
Marisol O. Ruiz and Nancy Perez
Teaching About Palestine in the U.S. Borderland during Israel's Genocidal War in Gaza [download]
Manah Hamzeh
Featuring the Art of the Chicanx Activist Adelita Michelle Medina [download]
Adelita Michelle Medina and Marisol O. Ruiz
ART: Capesinas [download]
Adelita Michelle Medina
Activist Legacies: Connecting Ethnic Studies to Local Histories, the Example of La Puente High School in the 1960s-1970s [download]
Gilda L. Ochoa
Rooting in Ancestral Resistance Victories and Building Ethnic Studies: Struggle-on-Struggle Liberatory Sumud Movement in New Mexico [download]
Dulcinea Lara and Manal Hamzeh
How do White Educators Need to Show Up in Ethnic Studies Spaces? A Survey [download]
Tricia M. Gallagher-Geurtsen
ART: Niña de la Montaña [download]
Adelita Michelle Medina
Disrupting the Tyranny of "Too muchness" in the Selection of Curriculum for Queer Literature for Ethnic Studies [download]
Marisol O. Ruiz, BreAnna Evans-Santiago, and Tricia Gallagher-Geurtsen
ART: Lolita Lebron [download]
Adelita Michelle Medina
Hasta La Raiz! A Sentipensante Testimonio Defending the Teaching of our "Mother's Gardens" and Ethnic Studies in the Central Valley, Califas [download]
Nora Cisneros
Building R/evolution: An Educators' Journey with Ethnic Studies Pedagogies Across Various Learning Spaces [download]
Melissa Charles
ART: Zapata EZLN [download]
Adelita Michelle Medina
In Pursuit of Racial Justice: Contesting State Sanctioned Epistemic Violence with a Pedagogy for the People [download]
Carolina Arango-Vargas, Sonya M. Alemán, José G. Villagrán, and Jerry González
Legacy of the Land: Reclaiming Hawaiian Kuleana Land Rights in Hawai'i [download]
Lani Cupchoy
ART: Free, Free Palestine! [download]
Adelita Michelle Medina
Chicanx-Palestine Solidarity: The Movement for Ethnic Studies in California [download]
M. Sean Arce, Anita E. Fernández, Theresa Montaño, and Guadalupe Carrasco Cardona
An Overview and Evaluation of Critical Ethnic Studies in Saint Paul Public Schools [download]
Mouakong Vue, Xue Xiong, Alyssa Parr, Jacob Oertel, Keith Mayes, and Nxtheb Chang
ART: Curandero [download]
Adelita Michelle Medina
Cover Artist Bio & Statement by Shahd Rajab, Deir El Balah, Gaza, Palestine [download]
Shahd Rajab
Covert Artist Reflection: In the Time of Genocide Collaboration between a Palestinian Artist in Gaza and two Activists on the Southwest Boarderlands [download]
Manah Hamzeh
Volume 3, Issue 1 (June 2025)
Lead Editors: Marisol O. Ruiz & Nancy Perez
Theme:"Struggle Builds on Struggle": Resistance and Organizing Through Ethnic Studies II
Editorial Commentary: Struggle Builds on Struggle II [download]
Marisol O. Ruiz, Dulcinea Lara, and Manal Hamzeh
POEM: Superpowers [download]
Marisol O. Ruiz
Disrupting Colonial Logics: Transformation Resistance Against SB 17 and the Dismantling of DEI in Texas Higher Education [download]
Angela Valenzuela, María Del Carmen Unda, and Julio Mena Bernal
Listening to the Rain: Archiving Latinx Resistance in Humboldt County [download]
Nancy Pérez and Marisol O. Ruiz
Book Review: Gaza Writes Back: Experiencing "Operation Cast Lead" Through Gazans' Eyes [download]
Hannah Hurd
A Praxis of Relational Thick Solidarity: Building Emancipatory and Mutually-Sustaining Ethnic Studies Communities in Texas [download]
Ethnic Studies Network of Texas Core Team
A Declaration of Identity [download]
Athens Marron
Una Escuela del Pueblo: Escuela y Colegio Tonantzin [download]
Marisol O. Ruiz
New Mexico Education Policy: A Work in Progress [download]
Cynthia Wise
Decolonizing Education in New Mexico: Addressing Systemic Barriers and Epistemic Violence Against Native American Students [download]
Melissa E. Riley
POEM: Haiku, for Leonard [download]
Demetria Martinez
ART: Operation Black Rhino [download]
Santa Ana Ethnic Studies Art Class
Demetria Martinez Bio [download]
Anonymous
POEM: Nativity: For Two Salvadoran Women, 1986-1987 [download]
Demetria Martinez
Poetry is Not a Luxury: A Four-Year Reflection on Spoken Word Pedagogies and Transformative Rigor in Chicanx Studies [download]
Jisell Camerena Ramires, Lariza Campos Flores, Nicholas F. Centino, and Cristian Trujillo
BOOK REVIEW: Reading Fady Joudah's [...]: Never Losing Sight of the Palestinian's History [download]
Jonah Holguin
POEM: The monster [download]
Marisol O. Ruiz
Learning and Healing Through the Teachings of the Girasol [download]
Jacqualine M. Manzo
ART: Pacific Beach Club [download]
Santa Ana Ethnic Studies Art Class
Trung's Ethnic Studies Pedagogy: The Possibilities and Struggles of Teaching Ethnic Studies in K-12 Schools [download]
Josephine H. Pham and Illustrator Esther Sing-Yu Ho
ART: China Town [download]
Santa Ana Ethnic Studies Art Class
Unlearning and Transforming Educational Harm Through Zine Making [download]
AJ Thomas and Mariela Nuñez-Janes
ART: La Voz [download]
Elena Valdez
Let us Speak: Aurora Lucero's Speech and the Spanish Language of New Mexico [download]
Elena Valdez
ZINE: Lucero [download]
Elena Valdez
Pláticas on Struggle and Resistance: Understanding the Impact of Censorship Legislation on Ethnic Studies Teachers in Texas [download]
Raquel Sánez Ortiz and Rebecca Ramirez
POEM: Resistencia [download]
Marisol O. Ruiz
ART: The Yost [download]
Santa Ana Ethnic Studies Art Class
The Potential Role of In Lak'ech and the Nahui Ollin in Nurturing Social Emotional Learning [download]
Jose Ortiz
ART: County of Orange [download]
Santa Ana Ethnic Studies Art Class
Speaking of Food: Indigenous Language Reclamation Through Fruits of the Earth [download]
Eva L. Barr
BOOK REVIEW: Bearing Witness Through Ink: A Review of Palestine in Black and White by Mohammad Sabaaneh [download]
Alberto del Campo
POEM: Palestine [download]
Marisol O. Ruiz
Linguistic Apartheid: Testimonios of Immigration, Labor, Socialization and Schooling Along the Community College Pathway [download]
Jesus Jaime-Diaz and Kevan Kiser-Chuc
ART: 187 [download]
Santa Ana Ethnic Studies Art Class
Implementing Ethnic Studies in Washington State K-12 Schools: Challenges, Training Gaps, and Pathways for Educators [download]
Tracy Castro-Gill
POEM: Fronteras / Borders [download]
Demetria Martinez
Cover Artist Statement: Borderlands Mural Series: Homecoming [download]
Norma Chairez, Beatrice Chavez, Celina Corral Arreola, Citlali Delgado, Ryan Duran, A. Billi Free, Al Na'ir Lara, and Sabe
Covert Art Reflection [download]
Dulcinea Lara and Manal hamzeh
Volume 3, Issue 2 (December 2025)
Lead Editors: Enrique C. Ochoa and Gilda L. Ochoa
Theme: "Re-Rooting Intersectional Ethnic Studies: Racial Capitalism, Coloniality, and Resistance"
Introduction [download]
Enrique C. Ochoa and Gilda L. Ochoa
A Los Asoleados / To the Sun-Kissed [download]
R. Joseph Rodríguez
Constellations and Collectivity: Youth Storytelling as Re-Reooting Methodology [download]
Shreya Sunderram, Tuilaepa Katoanga, Ravi Vora, Clarissa Kunizaki, Angie Choe, Subah Sumaiiyat, Arun Nayakkar, and Jake Xie
Deep Roots, Open Skies: The Quotidian Life of Ethnic Studies Outside Academia [download]
Marisa D. Salinas, Julissa O. Muñiz, Andrea N. Juárez Mendoza, and Marlene Mercado
Mux Critical Praxis in Creative Writing and Literatures [download]
Claudia Morales
Jorhenkuarheni: The Educador Comunitario and P'urhépecha-Based Pedagogies as Decolonial Praxis [download]
Maria Gutiérrez de Jesús
Andean Dance Cosmovision in the Classroom: A Decoloniality Approach toward Liberation for Elementary Students and Teachers [download]
Alcia Moseley
"Honoring Our Ancestors": Language Reclamation in an Ethnic Studies Classroom [download]
Sandra Jasmin Gutiérrez de Jesús
Mapping Black Histories: Blackdom, Maroon Pedagogy, and the Re-Rooting of Ethnic Studies in the Borderlands [download]
Charles E. Beckness, Jr., Timothy Green, IV, and Charia Boyer
When Parrots Fly: An Ethnic Studies Introspective [download]
Seye Ytilaer
Loteria del Barrio Mural: A Funds of Knowledge Collaboration [download]
Luis-Genaro Garcia
A Curricular Guide for "Reclaiming Humanity: Saving Seattle's First Filipinx US History" [download]
Tianne Mae G. Andresen and Edmundo Aguilar
This Ground is Not Neutral: Knowing Through Place and Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies [download]
Pamela K. Sertzen and Mika Kennedy
Marathon for a Union [dowload]
R. Joseph Rodríguez
Reclaiming Comparative Ethnic Studies: A Collaborative Course in Asign American and Latinx Literature and Film [download]
Sandra Sotelo-Miller and Sustan Thananopavarn
Leveraging Ethnic Studies to Inspire Resistance in the Electoral Arena: Lessons from California's Conservative Central Valley [download]
Veronica Terriquez and Jose Orellana
cristobal colón (cristoforo colombo) aka christopher columbus [download]
R. Joseph Rodríguez
About the Authors [download]
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