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Sana sana: Racial healing, history and genealogy with Latinx youth in the #BrownInChicago project

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  1. We use the term “Latinx” here, as we did during the youth cohorts, to be more inclusive with our language, and to subvert the very gendered nature of Spanish. We acknowledge that we live in a world in which many words for people of Latin American descent coexist, and we support self-identification as Latina, Latino and Latine as well, while we want to be co-conspirators with the nonbinary and gender fluid members of our communities.

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Acknowledgements

We want to thank all of our youth who participated in #BrownInChicago, and all of their families, for opening their hearts and minds and stories. A special thanks goes to our official genealogist, Kerry Cochrane, whose presence, candor and meticulous ancestry work was indispensable to the project, and to Nancy Aardema for her support, and to Eduardo Cordero, for cooking for us. We are grateful to the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe for the experience, the welcome, and the reflections at Standing Rock. To the spirits of our ancestors, and the divine presence of Love guiding our lives, we offer gratitude for bringing us together, and sending us away in joy to learn more, heal more, and seek the next questions.

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  1. Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Chicago, IL, USA

    Juliet de Jesús Alejandré

  2. DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA

    Jesse Mumm

  3. Working On Womanhood, Oak Park, IL, USA

    Violet Gallardo

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de Jesús Alejandré, J., Mumm, J. & Gallardo, V. Sana sana: Racial healing, history and genealogy with Latinx youth in the #BrownInChicago project. Lat Stud 20, 118–130 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41276-022-00363-6

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