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Black, Latinx and Chicanx Life and Interiority Beyond Statist Redemption Articulations of Responsible Freedom: Black, Latinx and Chicanx Life and Interiority Beyond Statist Redemption A Dissertation SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BY Mario Alberto Obando Ureña IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY ADVISER: BIANET CASTELLANOS June 2018 Mario Alberto Obando Ureña June, 2018© ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am full of so much gratitude for the time, energy and support I have received from my committee members through my graduate studies. Each of you have taught me in your own unique way how to be critical, generous and appreciative of the experiences one goes through in academia and in life. Truly, I am blessed to have met each of you and I am so honored for the wonderful feedback and countless generous conversations that have shaped my thinking, writing and activism. To my adviser Dr. Bianet Castellanos, thank you for your support in all the projects throughout graduate school. Your brilliance and generosity always made me feel that I could complete my studies and without question, extremely welcome in the Twin Cities. Your relentless support of my work I hope to duplicate in my own work with students. To Dr. Edén Torres, Dr. Jimmy Patiño, and Dr. Elliott Powell, thank you for teaching me rigor and generosity. Your guidance, reassuring words and thoughtful critiques throughout the process of my preliminary exams and final defense showed me that rigor and generosity can go hand in hand! Thank you for listening to my projects and helping me feel confident in my writing, thinking and teaching. I am so blessed to have had the support of Dr. Noro Andriamanalina. Your office was always a safe haven for me and your relentless support of students of color especially in making us feel welcome at the UMN allowed me in so many ways to finish this project! Thank you to you, the Diversity of Views and Experiences Fellowship and of course the Community of Scholars Program cohort. Tia, Chris, Beatriz, David and the rest of the cohort thank you for your support and friendship! A huge thank you to the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change; the fellowship, both financially and in terms of community, was vital in my pursuit of this degree. I would also like to thank the Department of American Studies, African-American Studies and Chicana/o Studies in their support of my studies and teaching. Dr. Roderick Ferguson, Dr. Kevin Murphy, and Dr. Yuichiro Onishi thank you for inspiring me in your coursework and mentorship! I am also honored to have worked at the Center for Writing and having met Dr. Katie Levin. Your generous conversations and thoughtful solidarity and support I will always carry with me! Thank you to Dr. Kirsten Jamsen, Zack, Andi, Rose, Jennifer and all the wonderful folks who shared the writing center space with me. You made working and studying enjoyable and collegial. So much of this dissertation is informed by the beautiful experience of teaching Chicana/o Studies my third year at the University of Minnesota. I dedicated that year to doing justice to the scholarship, activism, and teaching of Jesus Estrada-Pérez. With his spirit present, I had the wonderful opportunity and privilege of working with his students. Thank you Brenda, Briana, Jocelyn, Taylor, Brenda C., Brenda L, Melissa, Marco, José, Jessica, Wendy, Genaan, Alfred, Katherine, Mohammed, Teresa, JaLisa, Kaitlin, Steven, Grace, Abigale, Qing, Kashesha, and Elizabeth. Your willingness to build community as students and imagine better worlds fueled my passion for teaching! i I am so grateful to have had a supportive community of friends in the Twin Cities who opened their hearts and homes to me: Joanna, Irina, Naimah, Ana, Rahsaan, David, Chaun, Aaron, Daniel, Darlene, Karla, Kent, Moriko, Sasha, Marco, Vanessa, and Miguel. In California, thank you to Andrés and Frank for your wonderful friendship. To my dearest friend Terrell Webb, thank you for always coming over, and blessing me with your laugh and your brilliance! Thank you for embracing me as a friend and brother and making the Twin Cities my home away from home. Anu and Moriko, thank you for always brightening up my day! Our time watching basketball, talking about everything, especially Prince, will always be the fondest memories of my time in the Twin Cities. I could not have conceived of this project’s ethics, politics and scope without Soham Patel and Danny Topete. Soham, our friendship means so much to me! Your brilliance, kindness and passion for imagining better worlds and doing our best to survive graduate school always kept me grounded after long days. This project is the product of so much of our conversations over shisha. I also thank your beautiful family that has been so kind to me when we returned home. Amy, Smit, Binisha, Parth, Tulsi, Pops and Ma, thank you for being so kind to me in this journey! I hope that one-day Noopur reads this dissertation and can feel the love shared throughout these years. To Danny, thank you so much for opening your warm apartment and heart to me! You are one of the main forces that made this dissertation possible. Your kindness and gentle spirit regardless of the volatility and toxicity around us inspired me to keep going and know that what I was feeling was valid and indeed, important to voice. To Reina, thank you so much for always making me feel worthy of my time in academia. (“You’re good!”) Your relentless support and kindness throughout these years energized me to keep being true to myself! Thank you for letting me share in the joy of your family and see Diego grow. To Letty, thank you for spending weekend nights studying and working with me. Our study nights took us all over the San Gabriel Valley. I could not have written this without you, whether it was at La Monarca, Lift, Mantra or our favorite, Café X2O. Thank you for listening to my ideas in progress and reassuring me that this would be finished. I hope I can reciprocate your kindness and generosity in the years to come. Our conversations always strengthened my commitment to social justice, womxn of color feminism and mental health! Thank you. X2O!! My community of friends and colleagues once back in Southern California were instrumental in keeping me grounded in the work. I would very much like to thank the Department of Chicana/o Studies at California State University, Fullerton for the wonderful support and mentorship throughout my first years of employment there. To Dr. Patricia Pérez, Dr. Erualdo González, Dr. Alejandro Gradilla, Dr. Gabriela Cázares and Dr. Ana Nez thank you for your supportive and kind words in the rigorous task of writing and teaching at the same time. To Dr. Dom Magwili and Dr. Edward Robinson, thank you blessing me with your humor, wisdom and brilliance as educators in the Ethnic Studies Complex and ensuring me that I could do it! ii I would like to thank the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship community which has supported me since 2011. Thank you Dr. José Ortega for asking me the pivotal life changing question—“have you ever thought of becoming a professor?”—and following up with so much time and support throughout these years. A special thank you is due to Dr. Sylvia Vetrone-Lopez, Dr. Shannon Stanton and Dr. José Orozco! Your kind words of assurance were vital in difficult moments throughout my studies. Thank you to my MMUF cohort—Nick Dante, Marina Najera, Amber Orozco, Juan Pablo Bustos, Natalie Smythe—for helping me with feedback, laughter and motivation all these years. To the entire History Department at Whittier College—Dr. Robert Marks, Dr. Elizabeth Sage, and Dr. Natale Zappia—thank you for allowing me to grow as an intellectual. Thank you Dr. Laura McEnaney for pushing me to always take my writing seriously through countless office hours spent understanding the significance of finding my voice. To my fellow Costa Rican, Dr. Ivannia Soto, thank you for supporting me in my research and in my community work with Whittier and El Rancho High School students. Your work inspires me to always think critically of my pedagogy. To Dr. Ana Rosas and Dr. Abigail Rosas, thank you so much for your friendship and collegiality! Your commitment to me as a scholar and a person has taught me to never question my place in this field and your motivating words have allowed me to finish this dissertation. A mi familia en Costa Rica, muchas gracias por todos sus mensajes durante mis estudios! Yo los llevo conmigo en todas estas aventuras. Estoy muy orgulloso de ser parte de una familia que siempre me tiene un chiste y un abrazo listo cuando regreso a mi querida Costa Rica. ¡Pura vida! ¡Los quero mucho! Un abrazote a Tio Alvaro, Tia Marilyn, Yoselyn, Tio Carlo, Tia Olga, Carlo Andre, Monserrath, Santiago, Sofia, Valeria, Tio Domingo, Tia Maruja, Marcia, Luciano, Diana, Nandy Carolina, Olman, Álvaro José, Nicolás, Yohel, Tessy, Tia Sandra, Fio, Franco, y Melany. Un abrazote a mi primo Orlando, gracias por siempre mandarme saludos y energia positiva. Un abrazote a toda mi familia Ureña en Palmichal y mi querida familia Vargas en Tabarcia. Aunque este lejos, nunca me olvido de donde vengo. Su humildad y cariño siempre lo tengo presente. Yo debo mi vida a mi madre Milena Ureña. Su amor incondicional es lo que me motiva todo los dias. Su esfuerzo laboral y de madre es un ejemplo de como vivir una vida con fortaleza y ganas. Tengo toda la confianza en Dios que sus oraciones mi ayudaron estudiar con claridad y intencion positiva.
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