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Double Hybridization and Bordercanx Literary Works: How the United States Turned Mexican Americans Into the Forgotten People
Visiting Assistant Professorand IncomingDirector of SLAI (Center for U.S.-Latin America Initiatives)at The University of Texas at Dallas, ѳñdz-ܲԳcompletedherPh.D.in 2021where herdissertation, “Double Hybridization andBordercanxLiterary Works: How the United States Turned Mexican Americans into the Forgotten People,”became a hybrid workona distinct population within the Latinx community.In 2020, she established the SLAI Community Digital Archive Project to record the oral histories of this community.Utilizingherconcept“double hybridization”andautoethnography research methodology resulted inherchildren’s book,El Bowie Bakery. Herworkshave beenfeatured inBorders in Globalization ReviewandColumbia Journal. In 2020,shewon theBlue Mesa ReviewNonfiction Prize for “Border Sisters,”andhaspresented articlesfromThe University Culture CentreinBialystok,PolandtoUniversity of Grenoble-Alpes, France.