Abstract: This is a study of women, mothers/las madres, and a researcher, who came together in the working-class neighborhoods and las calles, the streets of South Central Los Angeles and who attempted to foment political consciousness and advocacy for educational reform in the community and especially in one particular school site, Mirasur Elementary. The methodological features of this dissertation are framed around the concept of nepantla pedagogy which includes: the autoethnographic narration of autohistorias/life histories and a social drama analysis of Mirasur Elementary. Autoethnography in the context of this dissertation refers to the disruptive processes of self-reflection within an analysis of the relationship between individual agency and the structures of determinacy in nepantla pedagogy. The social drama of Mirasur refers to the naturalization of scripts and practices that are reflected in the pedagogical spaces that materialize on a daily basis in formal and informal, explicit and implicit ways in the school site under study. Linking the pedagogy of las madres' 'self/selves' (nepantla) with the observed pedagogy of the school (social drama), moves this dissertation into another level of analysis: examining the conflict situations, interactions, transactions, reciprocities and customs that constitute the normative relations in which actors function within the social drama of Mirasur.