Working from within

Combining approaches from anthropology and cultural studies, Urrieta examines how issues of identity, agency, and social movements shape the lives of Chicana and Chicano activist educators in U.S. schools. He utilizes the cultural concepts of positioning, figured worlds, and self-authorship, along with Chicano Studies and Chicana feminist frameworks, to tell the story of twenty-four Mexican Americans who have successfully navigated school systems as students and later as activist educators. --From publisher description.