Muxeres en Acción: The Power of Community Cultural Wealth in Latinas Organizing for Health Equity

• Published in: American journal of community psychology Vol. 66; no. 3-4; pp. 314 - 324
• Main Authors: Fernández, Jesica Siham, Guzmán, Bianca L., Bernal, Ireri, Flores, Yvette G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Science Ltd 01.12.2020
• Subjects: Case studies; Community cultural wealth; Community involvement; Community power; Community psychology; Community research; Community‐based participatory action research; Fairness; Fieldwork; Gentrification; Health; Health disparities; Hispanic Americans; Immigrants; Inequality; Latin American cultural groups; Latinas; Leadership; Mexican Americans; Migrant workers; Participatory action research; Political power; Social justice; Well being; Community-based participatory action research; Community cultural wealth; Well-being; Health; Latinas

Community psychology, despite its commitment to social justice, is prone to engage in deficit‐based perspectives that do not appropriately capture the strengths of Latinx communities. Given these limitations, we use a Community Cultural Wealth (CCW) (Yosso, 2005) framework to describe how muxeres, L...