{"pk":7078,"title":"Creating Social Identities through \nDoctrina\n Narratives","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This study describes narrative activity in a doctrina class (children's religious education class in Spanish) composed of Mexican immigrants at a Catholic parish in Los Angeles. During the telling of the narrative of the apparition of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe (Our Lady of Guadalupe) doctrina students and their teacher collaboratively construct a multiplicity of identities in an ongoing narrative version. These past and present identities are represented as Mexican, de aquí (from here), and dark-skinned against the backdrop of the description of an oppressive colonial past in Mexico. The paper compares a doctrina class with a racially mixed religious education class conducted in English (catechism) at the same parish to illustrate differences in the way social identities are created in both classes.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Applied Linguistics"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2cv8d7z2","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Patricia","middle_name":"","last_name":"Baquedano-López","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Los Angeles","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2010-06-20T00:00:00-07:00","date_accepted":"2010-06-20T00:00:00-07:00","date_published":"1997-06-30T00:00:00-07:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ial/article/7078/galley/4198/download/"}]}