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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Latinos/as"”.
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School Counselors in Large Public High Schools: Roles and Responsibilities and Their Effects on Latinos/as A-G College Course Completion Rates
… A-G college course requirement completion rates. Latinos/as students are the lowest academic achieving students in the nation among their peers and the lowest in enrolling in four-year colleges and universities (Ochoa, 2013). This research paper explores the institutional and systemic barriers in …
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A Pentecostal perspective on church leadership: a study on church leadership conversion among young Pentecostal Latinos/as, in the Florida Multicultural District of the Assemblies of God
… of the Florida Multicultural District of the Assemblies of God. The aim of this study is to describe, analyse, evaluate and understand Pentecostal leadership by highlighting factors that led 30 of these youths to become church leaders by obtaining credentials as ministers with the Assemblies …
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Subjective Culture, Perceived Social Support, and Adaptive Coping: A Multi-Ethnic Study of the Transition to College
… subjective culture and perceived social support as important social psychological mechanisms in successful coping during the stressful college transition. Longitudinal survey data obtained from 449 students (133 Whites, 124 Asian Americans, 121 African Americans, and 71 Latinos/as) attending a …
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Learning Race and *Class: Chinese Americans in Multiracial Bridgeport
… racism in Bridgeport, a multiracial working class immigrant community adjacent to Chicago's Chinatown. Specifically, I observe that Chinese Americans in Bridgeport are subjected to various and even contradictory experiences of racialization: they are often racialized together with Latinos as …
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How Latinas Come to Know about AIDS and AIDS Prevention
<p>By the year 2000, Latinos will become the largest minority group in the United States. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is occurring at a disproportionately high rate among Latinos. As care-giver and health decision-maker in the family, the Latina needs to know about AIDS and AIDS …
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Anglos' and Latinos' Self-Regulation to Standards for Education and Parenthood
… involved in this regulatory process. I assessed Anglo and Latina adolescent girls' standards in terms of explicit self-report ratings and then prompted them to imagine themselves in scenarios related to education or parenthood. After participants viewed the scenarios, I assessed their …
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Latino/a First Generation Students in College: A Mixed Methods Review of Four-Decades of Literature
<p>The research was a mixed methods review of the experiences of Latino/a First Generation students in college. Their experiences were identified through a quantitative component of identifying what had been published pertinent to this demographic and sectioning those publications into one of four …
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Between Coloniality And Transmodernity:latino/a Fictional Responses To U.s. Interventionism In Latin America
… share a history of U.S. interventionism, which has not only affected the inhabitants of Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico, still a colony of the U.S., but also the lives of their population that now reside in the U.S. mainland. As Latino Studies Scholar Juan Flores has explained, …
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Hispanic immigrant students
For the past two hundred years, millions of people from different countries have immigrated to the United States seeking freedom, peace, prosperity, financial stability, and/or to enhance their education. In 2006, it was estimated that 12.5% of the U.S. population or 37.5 million individuals were …
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Discrimination and Psychological Distress Among Latinos: The Role of Family Conflict, Family Cohesion and Religion
… and psychological distress among Latino/as in the United States with a focus on gender differences. The study had two main objectives: 1) To test alternate stress-buffering models to understand the mechanisms through which family cohesion, family conflict, and religion affect the …
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Gender Identity, Ethnic Identity, and Self-Esteem in Latino Adolescent Males
… gender identity and psychological adjustment has long been investigated, but it is only in the 21<sup>st</sup> century that gender identity has been examined as a multi-faceted construct. According to Egan and Perry (2001), there are five dimensions comprising a person’s gender identity and …