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Alternative title

A Grant Proposal to Recover Mexican American Women’s History Through Community Archiving

Date of Award

Spring 2025

Document Type

Masters Project (Campus-Only Access)

Department or Program Affiliation

Department of English

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

English

First Advisor

Rivera, Lysa M.

Second Advisor

Forsythe, Jenny

Abstract

This capstone project addresses the underrepresentation of PNW Mexican American women within U.S. historical narratives and archival collections. It challenges how traditional Western archives contribute to the erasure of these women’s experiences through limited access and exclusion. Drawing on feminist, archival, and Chicana/o scholarship, the project advocates for community-based archival practices that empower Mexican American women to record and preserve their own histories. As such, this capstone project presents: 1) A grant proposal for the funds needed to conduct a community archival program led by Mexican American youth in Whatcom County called Mujeres Inolvidables. This program would record and archive the lived experiences of PNW Mexican American women while making use of both Western and non-Western forms of knowledge. 2) A critical preface which explains what led to writing the grant and the theoretical approach to the archival program. All together this capstone project concretizes a way to use public programming to make PNW Mexican American women visible in the U.S.-Mexico historical canon.

Type

Text

Keywords

Archives, Latine, Chicanas, Mexican-American Women, Public humanities, Pacific Northwest, Memory-keeping; Chicana Feminism, Community Archives, History, Knowledge Transfer

Publisher

Western Washington University

OCLC Number

1523221406

Subject – LCSH

Mexican American women--Northwest, Pacific--Archives; Archives--Northwest, Pacific; Feminism; Mexican American youth--Northwest, Pacific

Geographic Coverage

Northwest, Pacific

Format

application/pdf

Genre/Form

masters theses

Language

English

Rights

Copying of this document in whole or in part is allowable only for scholarly purposes. It is understood, however, that any copying or publication of this document for commercial purposes, or for financial gain, shall not be allowed without the author’s written permission.

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