Anticolonial Methodologies in Education: Embodying Land and Indigeneity in Chicana Feminisms

The author examines how anticolonial approaches in conversation with Chicana feminisms is a useful tool in education research. She proposes that anticolonial perspectives should be central to Chicana feminist projects if we are to take seriously the move towards decolonizing projects in education, arguing that the strength of Chicana feminist scholarship is its ability to be responsive to the multiple subjectivities, indeed colonial histories, that Chicanas embody. She concludes by showing how such a perspective can help uncover oppressive discourses and mechanisms of colonialism in education, offering social studies curriculum as an example.