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Identities in “The Fourth World”

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How does Guillermo Gomez-Pena’s terminology help us to reflect on our children and grandchildren’s ethnically mixed identities?

1Gomez-Pena, G. (1996). The new world border (p. 51). San Francisco: City Lights.

I understood right away that I was being accused of kidnapping my own child

Guillermo Gomez-Pena1

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  1. 1.

    Ibid., p. 50.

  2. 2.

    Ibid., p. 56.

  3. 3.

    Ibid., p. 245.

  4. 4.

    Urrieta, L. (2003). Las identidades tambien lloran. Educational Studies, 34(2), 147–168.

  5. 5.

    Ibid., p. 148.

  6. 6.

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    Pimentel, O. (2010). Mi pobre guerito. In L. D. Soto & H. Kharem (Eds.), Teaching bilingual/bicultural children: Teachers talk about language and learning. New York: Peter Lang Publishers.

  8. 8.

    Ibid., p. 78.

  9. 9.

    Rumbaut, R. (1994). The crucible within: Ethnic identity, self-esteem, and segmented assimilation among children of immigrants. International Migration Review, 28(4), Special Issue: The New Second Generation (Winter), pp. 748–794.

  10. 10.

    Ibid., p. 279.

  11. 11.

    Ibid., p. 790.

  12. 12.

    Chang-Ross, A. (2010). Racial queer: Multiracial college students at the intersection of identity, education and agency. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Texas, Austin, TX.

  13. 13.

    Ibid., p. 12.

  14. 14.

    Ibid., p. 328.

  15. 15.

    Ibid., p. 335.

  16. 16.

    Ibid., p. 360.

  17. 17.

    Ibid., p. 355.

  18. 18.

    p. 357.

  19. 19.

    Helms, J. (1995). An update of Helms’s White and People of color racial identity models. In J. G. Ponterotto (Ed.), Handbook of multicultural counselling (pp. 181–198). London: Sage Publications.

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    Frankenberg, R. (1997). Displacing whiteness. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

  23. 23.

    Ibid., p. 9.

  24. 24.

    McIntosh, P. (1988). White privilege: Unpacking the invisible knapsack. Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College Center for Research on Women.

  25. 25.

    Urrieta, L. (2009). Working from within: Chicana and Chicano activist educators in Whitestream schools. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press.

  26. 26.

    Ibid., p. 173.

  27. 27.

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Soto, L.D. (2011). Identities in “The Fourth World”. In: Latina/o Hope. Explorations of Educational Purpose, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0504-3_7

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