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Mariolga Reyes Cruz is a Puerto Rican community psychologist, ethnographer and EMMY-nominated documentarist engaged in efforts to build power for social and climate justice from a decolonial-ecosocialist-ecofeminist perspective. Mariolga holds a PhD in community psychology and qualitative inquiry from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and magazines, book chapters and a book on education organizing with undocumented immigrants. She has taught as contingent faculty at the University of Puerto Rico and is currently dedicated to grassroots work, writing and raising her son.
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Printout. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 251-270)
Since its inception, community psychology has been interested in cultural matters relating to issues of diversity and marginalization. However, the field has tended to understand culture as static social markers or as the background for understanding group differences. In this article the authors contend that culture is inseparable from who we are...
Calls for decolonizing knowledge have been heard from multiple fronts for some time. At issue are questions regarding who gets to claim knowledge, how knowledge is claimed, and how is one to go about gaining knowledge. This article raises questions about the actual practice of decolonizing academic knowledge focusing on the implications of having t...
Public schools are spaces where multiple local and global struggles are played out. Racism and xenophobia, for instance, are not simply manifestations of local hierarchies of oppression; these are key elements of the coloniality of power, the living legacy of colonialism around the globe. This legacy is reproduced and contested in the struggle for...
Ponencia ofrecida como parte del foro “De los desastres del capitalismo al capitalismo del desastre: resistencias y alternativas” el viernes 26 de enero 2018 desde la Universidad de Puerto Rico Recinto de Río Piedras con la participación de Naomi Klein (autora y periodista), Elizabeth Yeampierre (UPROSE, Climate Justice Alliance), Ruth "Tata" Santi...
Contemporary social movements challenge dominant discourses about democracy, freedom, independence, and autonomy; the daily experiences of the marginalized show these ideals have not led to decolonization. When one examines academic knowledge production and academic institutions, common assumptions about "autonomy" and "freedom" clash with the expe...
This performance piece is a collaboration between three diasporic subjects: a brown woman from Puerto Rico, an American-Persian-Iraqi woman, and a (White) Brazilian man. Their stories are weaved together to narrate a collective piece of diasporic life that moves across different social-cultural-political contexts and time. Reyes Cruz narrates her p...
On the basis of ethnographic research conducted in an elementary public school in Puerto Rico, we maintain in this article that subduing and narrowing the history of slavery is instrumental in the reproduction of national ideologies of mestizaje in Afro-Latin America. We explore how school texts and practices silence, trivialize, and simplify the h...
In this autoethnographic text, the author explores multiple voices that have shaped her racialized identity throughout her life across various sociohistorical-personal contexts. As a performance text, it challenges static categorical notions of identity by showing how identity processes are intertwined with lived experiences of racialization, ethni...
Printout. Thesis (A.M.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 38-46).
