Transfer Women of Color Student Project with an Acto of “The Calling of my Blood; Llamado de Sangre” Divina Hernandez Faculty Advisor: Alberto Pulido Department of Ethnic Studies Location: UC 103B
This Independent Study research project will address the struggles of community college and university women of color students in transferring to USD. While simultaneously discussing their struggle in obtaining a higher education in a society that disables them from increasing their upward mobility because of historical institutional power structures. I conducted Participatory Action research, a methodology whose specific focus in regards to this project, was to investigate the issues transfer students of color encounter once they arrive to USD, and acknowledge the unique experiences of transfer students in the hopes of bringing attention to the needs of this specific group. I investigated the resilience of three self-identified Chicana, Mexican, and Mexican-American women who have encountered discrimination, unacceptance, financial struggle, and grief. I demonstrate the battle that these three young ladies including myself have both won and lost while riding on the roller coaster ride of our education.
Color Me White Phil Miller Faculty Advisor: Monica Stufft Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Location: UC 104
My performance art piece deals with how being ‘white’ is part of a specifically socially constructed racial group and a culture that is stapled to that racial identity. Using Judith Butler’s work as inspiration, I show in an interactive manner how white racial identity is ‘constituted’ and then performed. I also draw upon Gwendolyn Audrey Foster’s theories of performing whiteness such as her work on ‘white face,’ ‘white spaces,’ and how to perform the ‘good white’ versus the ‘bad white.’ With the combination of the work by these two theorists, this performance art piece seeks to enlighten people, especially white people, about their own identities and to inspire them to self-reflect and learn more about their own whiteness and white identity.
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