Cindy Cruz
Biographic Data
| ID | 128765 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cindy Cruz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cindy |
| FAMILY NAME | Cruz |
| SIGNATURE | CRUZ C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0182-8235 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 163 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
“It’s This Practice of Being With ”
This kitchen-table talk examines what queer and trans* ways of knowing, being, and doing offer to movements for educational justice. We begin by sharing artifacts that illuminate our relationship to queer and trans* justice in education, and from these personal experiences, we explore the tensions and possibilities of queer and trans* dis/embodied epistemologies, with particularly attention to the power of intergenerational coalition building. Ul…
Theorizing the razor’s edge of love and rage in research and praxis
Theorizing the razor’s edge of love and rage in research and praxis." International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 32(2), p. 111
Reading This Bridge Called My Back for pedagogies of coalition, remediation, and a razor’s edge
In this article, I examine the engagement of pre-service teachers with US feminist of color theory. Centering coalition relations, re-mediation, and dialogic narrative, I argue that the field of women of color thought is pedagogical in thinking through the intersectional and multidimensional problems of teaching and schooling, particularly when working with under-resourced schools and displaced and dispossessed students and their families. A fram…
Virtual Roundtable on Mapping Gendered Violence
Raminder Kaur, Maggie O'Neill, Nicola Henry, Krista Benson, Anastasia Christou, Cindy Cruz, Virtual Roundtable on Mapping Gendered Violence, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 39, No. 2, Mapping Gendered Violence (2018), pp. 233-264
Introducing the New Editors of Frontiers
On an Ethnography of Surveillance
LGBTQ Youth of Color Video Making as Radical Curriculum
This essay examines a video poem curriculum for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer1. The “Q” of LGBTQ—lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer—is interchangeable with “questioning” and the term “queer.” These are terms which youth used interchangeably and reflected how students in this ethnography named themselves, or refused to self‐designate at all. (LGBTQ) students of color at a continuation school in Los Angeles, California.…
Making Curriculum from Scratch
Testimonio, as a genre of the dispossessed, the migrant, and the queer, is a response to larger discourses of nation-building and has the potential to undermine the larger narratives that often erase and make invisible the expendable and often disposable labor and experiences of immigrants, the working class, African Americans, and others. This essay explores the use of testimonio in urban classrooms in Los Angeles and its use as a mediating tool…
Compartiendo Nuestras Historias
This storytelling begins with a positioning of why and how we use testimonio as part of a larger project of social justice and transformative pedagogies. In this collective testimonio, 5 working-class Latina scholars tell the stories of their struggles to overcome the challenges of language and assimilation, of gender discrimination and racism, of the violence of patriarchy, and of the experience of being treated as an "alien" in one's own countr…
LGBTQ street youth talk back
In this ethnography of LGBTQ street youth, I argue that despite the regulation and containment of their bodies, queer street youth consistently create spaces of resistance that move them away from the tropes of infection, contamination, and deservedness that are inscripted onto the bodies of queer youth. Using the work of feminist philosopher Maria Lugones, this essay articulates a framework for resistance researchers – scholars who enact a “fait…
Notes on Immigration, Youth, and Ethnographic Silence
The experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) migrant youth are often found in between narratives, complicated by the current political climate that makes it difficult for migrant students to disclose information about their lives. In this two-year ethnography of a public school that serves LGBTQ young people, the author suggests that teachers and education practitioners must learn to not only recognize the subtext of …
Toward an Epistemology of a Brown Body
Toward an epistemology of a brown body
In its current emphasis on all that is analytic and cognitive, the absence and elusiveness of the body in educational research defines and delineates any consideration of how new identities, particularly the emerging identities of Latina/o lesbian and gay youth, are being invented within a contestation of dominant discourses of race, class, gender, and sexuality. In a reevaluation of the writings of Chicana theorists Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anz…
Toward an epistemology of a brown body
In its current emphasis on all that is analytic and cognitive, the absence and elusiveness of the body in educational research defines and delineates any consideration of how new identities, particularly the emerging identities of Latina/o lesbian and gay youth, are being invented within a contestation of dominant discourses of race, class, gender, and sexuality. In a reevaluation of the writings of Chicana theorists Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anz…
Making Curriculum from Scratch
Testimonio, as a genre of the dispossessed, the migrant, and the queer, is a response to larger discourses of nation-building and has the potential to undermine the larger narratives that often erase and make invisible the expendable and often disposable labor and experiences of immigrants, the working class, African Americans, and others. This essay explores the use of testimonio in urban classrooms in Los Angeles and its use as a mediating tool…
LGBTQ street youth talk back
In this ethnography of LGBTQ street youth, I argue that despite the regulation and containment of their bodies, queer street youth consistently create spaces of resistance that move them away from the tropes of infection, contamination, and deservedness that are inscripted onto the bodies of queer youth. Using the work of feminist philosopher Maria Lugones, this essay articulates a framework for resistance researchers – scholars who enact a “fait…
LGBTQ Youth of Color Video Making as Radical Curriculum
This essay examines a video poem curriculum for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer1. The “Q” of LGBTQ—lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer—is interchangeable with “questioning” and the term “queer.” These are terms which youth used interchangeably and reflected how students in this ethnography named themselves, or refused to self‐designate at all. (LGBTQ) students of color at a continuation school in Los Angeles, California.…
Notes on Immigration, Youth, and Ethnographic Silence
The experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) migrant youth are often found in between narratives, complicated by the current political climate that makes it difficult for migrant students to disclose information about their lives. In this two-year ethnography of a public school that serves LGBTQ young people, the author suggests that teachers and education practitioners must learn to not only recognize the subtext of …
Compartiendo Nuestras Historias
This storytelling begins with a positioning of why and how we use testimonio as part of a larger project of social justice and transformative pedagogies. In this collective testimonio, 5 working-class Latina scholars tell the stories of their struggles to overcome the challenges of language and assimilation, of gender discrimination and racism, of the violence of patriarchy, and of the experience of being treated as an "alien" in one's own countr…
Reading This Bridge Called My Back for pedagogies of coalition, remediation, and a razor’s edge
In this article, I examine the engagement of pre-service teachers with US feminist of color theory. Centering coalition relations, re-mediation, and dialogic narrative, I argue that the field of women of color thought is pedagogical in thinking through the intersectional and multidimensional problems of teaching and schooling, particularly when working with under-resourced schools and displaced and dispossessed students and their families. A fram…
Theorizing the razor’s edge of love and rage in research and praxis
Theorizing the razor’s edge of love and rage in research and praxis." International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 32(2), p. 111
Toward an epistemology of a brown body
In its current emphasis on all that is analytic and cognitive, the absence and elusiveness of the body in educational research defines and delineates any consideration of how new identities, particularly the emerging identities of Latina/o lesbian and gay youth, are being invented within a contestation of dominant discourses of race, class, gender, and sexuality. In a reevaluation of the writings of Chicana theorists Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anz…
Toward an Epistemology of a Brown Body
Notes on Immigration, Youth, and Ethnographic Silence
The experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) migrant youth are often found in between narratives, complicated by the current political climate that makes it difficult for migrant students to disclose information about their lives. In this two-year ethnography of a public school that serves LGBTQ young people, the author suggests that teachers and education practitioners must learn to not only recognize the subtext of …
Compartiendo Nuestras Historias
This storytelling begins with a positioning of why and how we use testimonio as part of a larger project of social justice and transformative pedagogies. In this collective testimonio, 5 working-class Latina scholars tell the stories of their struggles to overcome the challenges of language and assimilation, of gender discrimination and racism, of the violence of patriarchy, and of the experience of being treated as an "alien" in one's own countr…
LGBTQ street youth talk back
In this ethnography of LGBTQ street youth, I argue that despite the regulation and containment of their bodies, queer street youth consistently create spaces of resistance that move them away from the tropes of infection, contamination, and deservedness that are inscripted onto the bodies of queer youth. Using the work of feminist philosopher Maria Lugones, this essay articulates a framework for resistance researchers – scholars who enact a “fait…
Making Curriculum from Scratch
Testimonio, as a genre of the dispossessed, the migrant, and the queer, is a response to larger discourses of nation-building and has the potential to undermine the larger narratives that often erase and make invisible the expendable and often disposable labor and experiences of immigrants, the working class, African Americans, and others. This essay explores the use of testimonio in urban classrooms in Los Angeles and its use as a mediating tool…
LGBTQ Youth of Color Video Making as Radical Curriculum
This essay examines a video poem curriculum for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer1. The “Q” of LGBTQ—lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer—is interchangeable with “questioning” and the term “queer.” These are terms which youth used interchangeably and reflected how students in this ethnography named themselves, or refused to self‐designate at all. (LGBTQ) students of color at a continuation school in Los Angeles, California.…
On an Ethnography of Surveillance
Reading This Bridge Called My Back for pedagogies of coalition, remediation, and a razor’s edge
In this article, I examine the engagement of pre-service teachers with US feminist of color theory. Centering coalition relations, re-mediation, and dialogic narrative, I argue that the field of women of color thought is pedagogical in thinking through the intersectional and multidimensional problems of teaching and schooling, particularly when working with under-resourced schools and displaced and dispossessed students and their families. A fram…
Virtual Roundtable on Mapping Gendered Violence
Raminder Kaur, Maggie O'Neill, Nicola Henry, Krista Benson, Anastasia Christou, Cindy Cruz, Virtual Roundtable on Mapping Gendered Violence, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 39, No. 2, Mapping Gendered Violence (2018), pp. 233-264
Introducing the New Editors of Frontiers
Theorizing the razor’s edge of love and rage in research and praxis
Theorizing the razor’s edge of love and rage in research and praxis." International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 32(2), p. 111
“It’s This Practice of Being With ”
This kitchen-table talk examines what queer and trans* ways of knowing, being, and doing offer to movements for educational justice. We begin by sharing artifacts that illuminate our relationship to queer and trans* justice in education, and from these personal experiences, we explore the tensions and possibilities of queer and trans* dis/embodied epistemologies, with particularly attention to the power of intergenerational coalition building. Ul…
Sociology (11 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works)