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This chapter deploys the term mojado to describe the political, cultural, and academic deviance of Latinxs who do not assimilate into the dominant whiteness of US institutions.
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del Hierro, M. (2016). Mojado. In: Ruiz, I.D., Sánchez, R. (eds) Decolonizing Rhetoric and Composition Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52724-0_12
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