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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Hispanic American studies"”.
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"El Amparo de la Ley": Hispanas' Use of Spanish Mexican and Anglo American Law in Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado, 1848-1912
Following the conclusion of the Mexican American War of 1846-1848, and the acquisition of nearly one-half of Mexican territory, the United States replaced Spanish civil law with judicial procedures based on English common law in both New Mexico and Colorado Territories. New Mexico retained a …
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Geography of Service Delivery: On the Role of Mental Health Service Structure in Community Senior Services for Puerto Rican Older Adults
The main purpose of this study was to examine the role of mental health services structure in community senior centers and how it interacts with Puerto Rican older adults' historical, social, and cultural experiences to relate to their perceptions, awareness, and utilization of mental health …
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Errant Family Ties: Migratory Identities in Latina and Hispanic Caribbean Cultural Production
… how contemporary cultural production from Hispanic Caribbean and Latina female voices have altered patterns of the traditional family unit and a modern conceptualization of the nation-state. In the literary trajectory of Latin American and Caribbean cultures, the family has functioned as …
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Intergenerational Spanish Language Transmission: Attitudes, Motivations and Linguistic Practices in 2 Mexican American Communities
… transmission of Spanish in two Mexican American communities, and is the first qualitative Midwest/Southwest comparison of two communities on different ends of the bilingualism spectrum: El Paso, Texas and the neighborhood of La Villita, in Chicago. The goal of this project was to examine …
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Shift Happens, but When? The Timing of Language Shift in Immigrant Generations
This study provides an antidote to the assumption in prior research that the process of language shift is entirely the outcome of mother-tongue shift, an intergenerational process. It is not a simple matter of mother-tongue shift, nor is it a process experienced in the same way by all immigrant …
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Troubling Citizenship: Latino Immigrants and the Struggle for Participatory Belonging in the Midwest
This dissertation examines multiple, competing conceptualizations of community and the ways in which membership and communal solidarity differs in a shifting Midwestern social landscape. Most notably, the following chapters explore the efforts of Mexican residents in Central Indiana to participate …
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Playing Through Contradictions: Indo-Pak Basketball and Embodying South Asisn American Masculinity
… research methods, I sought out how South Asian Americans attribute meaning to leisure activities of basketball and dance clubs. In particular, I examined the Indo-Pak Basketball North American circuit in general and the local Atlanta South Asian American basketball scene in particular. I looked …
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Activation, Automacity, and Mental Health Implications of Colonial Mentality
Among Filipino Americans, Colonial Mentality (CM) is a specific form of internalized oppression that is characterized by an automatic preference for anything American and automatic rejection of anything Filipino that may be manifested overtly and covertly. Given that CM is theorized to be composed …
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Educational *Policies and Practices in Lived Context: Puerto Ricans Schooled in Chicago
This qualitative study explores the lived experiences of Puerto Rican youth who are products of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). A critical theoretical framework is utilized to forge a critique of pedagogy and curriculum development within a system that perceives schools as apolitical and teachers …
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Adolescent Mexican Mothers: Within-Group Variations in Socioemotional Well-Being and Social Support
Although Mexican descent adolescents have the highest pregnancy rates in the nation, little scholarly research has focused on the social and cultural factors related to socioemotional well-being. The present study examines three areas concerning Mexican descent adolescent mothers: (a) …
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College Knowledge: The Educational Views and Experiences of Mexican Immigrant Mothers in the Midwest
"My dissertation project, ""College Knowledge: The Experiences of Mexican Mothers and Educational Success in the Midwest"", is grounded in the idea that Mexican parents (regardless of citizenship status) take part in a critical role in U.S. schooling today. While Mexican parents hold high …
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Understanding the Reading in English and Spanish of Four Hispanic Bilingual First-Graders
… of reading in English and Spanish of four Hispanic bilingual first-graders, whose teachers considered to be developing readers in their classroom language. Two of the children initially received formal literacy instruction in Spanish, later transitioning into English literacy instruction, …
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Spanish Language of Heritage: A Study of the Extent of Its Development at a Chicago Public School
The Spanish Heritage Language Program has undergone drastic reduction of students and teachers by 60% of the class size and number of teachers in the program. The changes that Chicago Public Schools allowed at Benito Juarez Community Academy's Spanish Heritage Language Program will make it …
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Latino Parent Involvement and School Leadership in High School Bilingual Programs
"Based on the results from both the one-way ANOVA test (p < .05) and the post-hoc Tukey's test, the parents' responses significantly differed between schools with different self-reported leadership styles in the area of ""meetings."""
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The Harrison High School Walkouts of 1968: Struggle for Equal Schools and Chinanismo in Chicago
Although the notion of 'Chicano' never quite popularized the public imagination of most Mexicans in Chicago, Mexicano students, parents, and community activists forged a spirit of Chicanismo to fit their unique circumstances and local context for urban school reform during the height of the civil …
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Diversifying Business Development: Exploring Opportunities to Attract Latino Entrepreneurs to West Virginia
Prior studies have examined Latino entrepreneurship in a variety of settings in which Latinos are a significant population. Some of the previously identified barriers to successful Latino entrepreneurship include financial funding, racial issues, ethnic enclaves, and getting along with people from …
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Latina/o/x community college student engagement: a quantitative study of goal to transfer
The Hispanic community within the U.S. has steadily grown over the last few decades. People identifying as Latina/o/x are already the largest minority population and are projected to become 29% of the U.S. population by the year 2050 (Salinas, 2015). Since 1980, the number of school age children …
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The Memories of the Dead: Trauma and Historical Memory in "[REC]"
The zombie is a monster that has captured the imagination of horror lovers across the world ever since it made the leap from folklore to film. Since then, anxieties over the present and future in these texts have been the object of analysis, while the expression of historical trauma has largely …
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The Roles of Estate Planning and Social Support in Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Advance Care Planning and End-of-Life Care
… stark differences in completion rates by Non-Hispanic Blacks and Hispanics compared to Non-Hispanic Whites are observed. Much of the research on ACP has focused on describing associations between sociodemographic factors and planning completion or planning completion and health care received …
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Acculturation, Sexual Roles, Immigration and Religion: Perceptions of HIV+ Mexican Women on Safer Sex.
Acculturation, Sexual Roles, Immigration and Religion: Perceptions of HIV+ Mexican Women on Safer Sex.
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