"We Are Not a Token!": Cultural Citizenship and Transformational Resistance in Higher Education. (September 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Deeb-Sossa, Natalia; Boulware, Janet
• Is Part Of: Urban education. Volume 57:Number 7(2022)
• Page Start: 1145
• Page End: 1176
• Publication Date: 2022-09
• Subjects: Chicanxs and Latinxs undergraduate students -- cultural citizenship -- social belonging -- transformational resistance; Education, Urban -- Periodicals; Enseignement en milieu urbain -- Périodiques; Éducation; Milieu urbain; Périodique électronique (Descripteur de forme); Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme); 370.91732
• DOI: 10.1177/0042085918802629
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0042-0859

Abstract

Based on ethnographic and archival research, we explore how 10 students asserted their rights to belong and secure a space where they felt safe at UC Davis. We examine the activities and practices of 10 undergraduate Chicanxs and Latinxs students: members of "Radical Academics for Pedagogy" (RAP) and RESISTENCIA. Our interest lies on examining how they enacted cultural citizenship—a process by which they defined themselves, interpreted their histories, constructed their own symbols and political rhetoric, and claimed rights through speeches, actions, cultural discourses, and dialogues. We contend that the students challenged the definitions of belonging and citizenship at UC Davis.