Yareliz was an undergraduate who attended the University of Puerto Rico, Cayey where the YPAR project was located within a summer research class and then continued into the following fall semester. Yareliz Zayas Cruz created this poem, El Ojo (The Eye) as her first class assignment for a critical art-informed Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) project implemented by the authors of this article during June of the summer of 2019. MARIPOSAS DE ODIO ACECHAN EL ESTÓMAGO LOS OJOS SE DILATAN ANTE TAN CRUEL ESCENA DONDE LOS PUÑOS SE APRIETAN Y LA RESPIRACIÓN SE ACELERA LOS CAPILARES EFERVESCEN EN ARDIENTE ROJO EL CEÑO FRUNCIDO LO EXPRESA TODO DESDE LA VENTANA VIENDO COMO LA MANO PEGA NO LATE RUGE EL CORAZÓN DE IRA Y LUEGO,īUTTERFLIES OF HATE LURK THE STOMACH THE EYES GET DILATED IN SUCH CRUEL SCENE WHERE THE FISTS ARE TIGHTENED AND THE BREATH ACCELERATES THE CAPILLARIES EFFERVESCE IN BURNING RED THE FROWN EXPRESSES EVERYTHING FROM THE WINDOW SEEING HOW THE FIST PUNCHES THE HEART DOESN’T BEAT BUT ROARS FROM RAGE AND THEN, Her research interests include Latinas/os, youth, militarism, gender, migration, urban ethnography, and the role of faith-based communities in organizing in Latina/o communities, including sanctuary practices and intra-faith and cross-racial solidarity efforts. Gina Pérez is a cultural anthropologist and professor of Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College. She has learned much from documenting and analyzing injustices and looks forward to experiencing the Puerto Rico of the future and contributing to culture as a weapon of resistance. Yareliz Zayas Cruz attained a Bachelor’s degree in Biology at the University of Puerto Rico, Cayey campus. He publishes on family, work, and education among Latinxs and on the relationship between culture and academic achievement. His research focuses on participatory action research with Latinx youth, institutional factors in academic achievement, critical race theory and liberatory pedagogy. Julio Cammarota is a professor of education at University of Arizona. Notes on contributors Regina Deil-Amen is a Professor and Director of the Center for the Study of Higher Education and Department Head of Educational Policy Studies & Practice in the College of Education at University of Arizona with expertise in qualitative methodologies, sociology, community colleges, culturally responsive practices, and postsecondary access and success.

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