Cindy Cruz

Interests

Teaching

Homeless youth,LGBTQ Youth,Critical ethnographic methodologies,Social and cultural analysis,Cultural Studies and Education, Critical Pedagogy,Foundations of Education,Feminist Methodologies,Interviewing Youth, andU.S. Third World Feminist Pedagogies.

Research

U.S. Third World and Decolonial Feminisms, Testimonio,Schools and LGBTQ youth,Digital Queer Youth,Digital Queer Literacies,Homeless youth,Youth and Violence,Latinos in the Education Pipeline, andViolence against LGBTQ Communities.

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Journals/Publications

• Cruz, C. (2019). Reading This Bridge Called My Back for pedagogies of coalition, remediation, and a razor’s edge. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 32(2), 136-150. doi:10.1080/09518398.2018.1533150
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  AbstractIn 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 framework based on the intellectual labor of US women of color, where the pedagogies of coalition, re-mediation, and dialogic narratives create powerful epistemological interventions that support pre-service teachers as they think about the complex problems of schools in this era of the defunding and the dismantlement of public education. It is a US women of color pedagogy that engages teachers in developing alternative accounts of their relationship to the world, how these new accounts are unavoidably theoretical and provide a starting point for new thinking ...