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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"Latina/o Studies"”.
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Bienvenida a Disney princess Elena: Exploring race, age, and gender in Disney’s Elena of Avalor
Working at the intersection of Media Studies, Latina/o Studies, and Girls’ Studies, this dissertation explores Disney’s contemporary construction of Latinidad by focusing on Elena of Avalor, Disney’s first Latina princess. Situated against the backdrop of contemporary postfeminist and neoliberal …
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Understanding Service Utilization Disparities and Depression in Latino Parents and Children: The Role of Fatalismo
… been hypothesized but not investigated. Further, studies have not yet extended this research to service utilization decisions parents make on behalf of their children. The current study therefore aimed to (1) develop a clear conceptualization of the fatalismo construct, (2) examine the relation …
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The Color of Youth: Mexicans and the Power of Schooling in Chicago, 1917-1939
This dissertation examines the social and educational experience of the first mass wave of Mexicans who migrated to Chicago in the early twentieth-century. It recaptures how the racially, socially, and economically charged experiences of Mexicans reshaped their national and cultural identity in …
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Brincamos el charco y ahora que: Historicizing Puerto Rican education in Chicago, 1967-1977
This dissertation serves as a historical and cultural analysis of the educational experiences of Puerto Ricans in Chicago following the Division Street Riot of 1966 till 1977, chronicling the ways in which the racialization of Puerto Ricans in Chicago has resulted in schooling inequalities, forcing …
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Latina Principals in Southern California: A Phenomenological Look into their Journey Towards Leadership
… compared with 42% of the White population. Latina students have some of the lowest levels of educational attainment at every point in their K-12 journey and in general, very low occupational attainment. Given these troubling findings, this research sought to understand and tell the stories …
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Gente Estudiada: Latina/o students confronting and engaging home/community knowledge within/outside institutions of higher education
As a group, Latinas/os are transforming the demographic profile of U.S. colleges and universities. More Latinas/os are pursuing postsecondary education with a total of 69% of Latina/o high school graduates enrolling in college compared to 67% of whites (Fry & Taylor, 2013). However, data shows that …
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<i>La resolana</i>: Chicano Artistic Imaginaries of Place, Race, and Activism in New Mexico and Texas, 1969–1985
… history through an analysis of four artist case studies—Anita O. Rodríguez, Luis A. Jiménez, Jr., Melesio “Mel” Casas, and Santa C. Barraza—spanning communities across the two states and working in an array of mediums and styles.</p>
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Testing an Attribution Model of Caregiving in a Latino Sample: The Role of Familismo and the Caregiver-Care Recipient Relationship
<p>The Social and economic consequences of depression place a heavy burden on society. Many family members and friends often feel the need take on the role of informal caregivers when loved ones require assistance due to disabling conditions. However, caregiver burden can arise when providing …
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Beyond the Economic: The Freedoms, Capabilities, and Social Capital of Latin American Women Entrepreneurs in San Francisco
<p> In light of the scholarly debate surrounding the goals and mixed effects of development programs, particularly in recent years in relation to microfinance, this study investigates the effects of economic development programs on Latin American women entrepreneurs in San Francisco’s Mission …
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Resilience and Struggle: Exploring the Experiences of Undocumented College Students Through Chicana Feminist Theory and Dialogical Performance
<p>In an increasingly hostile political and social climate undocumented students in the United States continue to struggle to find space for themselves within universities. This research project undertakes a goal of illuminating how undocumented students make sense of their experiences on …
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Perceptions of Help-Seeking Likelihood for Depression: Examining the Relative Predictive Value of Ethnicity and Barriers to Care
<p>Latinx and non-Latinx White adults 18 years of age and older experience depression at proportional rates. However, Latinxs seek specialized care for depression at lower rates than non-Latinx Whites, suggesting these groups experience barriers in accessing care differently. This study sought to …
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Neighborhood Effects as Predictors of Hispanic Young Adult Outcomes
<p>The present thesis explores the implications of neighborhood effects, parent-child relationship, and school attachment upon young adulthood attainment among Hispanic adolescents. By 2060, the U.S. population will consist of nearly 12.8 million Hispanic persons and will constitute nearly a third …
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Decolonizing Transnational Subaltern Women: The Case of Kurasoleñas and New York Dominicanas
<p>This project explores the racial and gender decolonization of New York and Curaçaoan women in a select group of novels, paintings and performance text by women from Curaçao and New York City. The Curaçaoan novels are: Aliefka Bijlsma's Gezandstraald [Sandblasted] (2007); Loeki Morales' Bloedlijn …
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Transatlantic Surrealisms, Imagined Homelands, and the Poetry of Paul Laraque
<p>Many theoretical treatments of Caribbean and Latin American surrealism(s), most notably Fredric Jameson and Alejo Carpentier’s foundational essays on magical realism, argue that the surrealism of the European metropole is a sophisticated avant-garde movement, in contrast to the blunt tool of …
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The Effects of Brief, Passive Psychoeducation on Suicide Literacy, Stigma, and Attitudes Toward Help-Seeking Among Latino Immigrants Living in the United States
<p>Latino immigrants drastically underutilize mental health treatment services compared to other ethnic groups, despite rates of mental illness that are comparable to those observed among the general population. With regards to suicidal behavior specifically, twice as many Latino suicide attempters …
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Quantitative analysis of contributing factors of career success and overall and academic resilience in higher education: A refinement of Tinto’s theory to stop Latinx oppression
<p>It is indeed a fact that diversity helps to build a better economy, and diverse businesses are proven to be healthier and more successful, but the lack of diversity in the workforce and educational environment, shows that the pipeline is not moving Latinx people enough. Latinx community is the …
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Decolonizing Moral Visions: Christian Political Economic Ethics, Latino/a Religiosity, and Postcoloniality
… ethicists must be decolonized and points to Latina/o thinking and heterodox economic thought as two starting points for such a decolonization of the moral imaginary.</p> <p>The project makes contributions to both Christian social ethics and Latina/o religious cultural studies. It contributes …
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