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“Cruz Medina’s Sanctuary is an expert uptake of storytelling and counterstorytelling. This work is a needed contribution to Central American rhetorics theorizing from lived reality that answers important calls by scholars such as Maritza E. Cárdenas and Joanna E. Sanchez-Avila for more content by, for, and about Central Americans.”
—Aja Y. Martinez, author of Counterstory: The Rhetoric and Writing of Critical Race Theory
Demonstrating how immigration policy and educational barriers exclude Indigenous migrant populations, Dr. Medina follows the community at the “Sanctuary”—a Spanish-speaking church in the East Bay Area where he assembles participant observations, interviews, surveys, and other data to give points of entry into intersecting issues of immigration, violence, language, and property and to untangle aspects of citizenship, exclusion, and assumptions about literacy.
“Sanctuary is rhetorically engaging, emotionally honest, and intellectually accessible. Medina resists reducing complex findings to academically overdetermined and theoretically overwrought explanations. His rich description and grounded analysis open up new insights into questions about geopolitical sanctuary and spiritual sovereignty while humanizing both the author and the stakeholders.”
—Michelle Hall Kells, author of Vicente Ximenes, LBJ’s Great Society, and Mexican American Civil Rights Rhetoric
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