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Course Context
This project is connected to my course titled "Latina Life Stories." The majority of students are Latinas/os of Mexican origin. My goal is to enable students to theorize their own stories, to participate in the process of constructing new knowledge. In class, we read autobiographical writings by U.S. Latinas. The readings model the process of theorizing through personal experience. Latina writers have produced new cultural concepts and theories, such as "borderlands," "new mestiza consciousness," "border feminisms," and "latinidades." The digital storytelling process enables students to become authors in their own right. Digital stories are more than a class assignment. They become 'published' pieces on CD-Roms, shared with multiple audiences - family, friends, community. They also provide a space where students can inscribe their lived experiences not just as "this is what happened to me" but as "this is what my story teaches us."
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