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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Mexican heritage"”.
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Breaking Borders: Women of Mexican Heritage in Douglas, Arizona
… the manifold ways in which fifteen women of Mexican heritage actively participated in the secular, spiritual, and social spheres to improve conditions for themselves and their community in Douglas, Arizona during the first half of the twentieth century. Using interviews, newspapers, US census …
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The Lived Experiences of 3rd Generation and Beyond U.S.-Born Mexican Heritage College Students: A Qualitative Study
… 3rd generation and beyond U.S.-born (3GAB-USB) Mexican heritage college students. Alvarez (1973) has written about the psychosocial impact "hybridity" can have on a U.S.- born (USB) Mexican individual who incorporates two distinct cultures (American and Mexican) in order to succeed in U.S. …
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Changes in activation of Mexican-heritage children and father physical activity social networks in response to a father-focused family-centered health program.
… on and perception of child PA, especially within Mexican-heritage families; however, recently scholars have called for a renewed focus on fathers to promote the health of their children. This dissertation examined if participation in a father-focused family-centered health program changes the …
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Co-Constructing Cultural Attunement with Latino Clients in Couple Therapy
… attuned approaches for couple’s therapy with Mexican/ Mexican-American people (Falicov, 2009). However, there have been few theoretical frameworks to conceptualize cultural attunement, and attunement has been primarily understood as a skill or as an attitude rather than as a relationship or as …
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La Cultura Que No Cambia
… towards others has influenced me to highlight my Mexican heritage of traditions, culture, and language through several different methods. Using these elements, I can create work informing audiences about how political and social issues affect the Latino community. My work aims to create a voice …
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Project Management Plan to Develop a Community-Based Public Program
… a small, community-based organization like the Mexican Heritage Center operates and the challenges it has faced planning exhibits and programs in the past. Further details will be provided about how the plans for the Dia de Los Muertos program were developed, as well as a proposed action plan …
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Testing a U.S. Mexican cultural value transmission model of maternal socialization of youth civic responsibility values and prosocial behaviors
… and prosocial behaviors, especially in U.S. Mexican heritage early adolescents. The goal of this project was to test a cultural value transmission model of prosocial behaviors using the traditional Mexican cultural value of civic responsibility. The mediating relations between this cultural …
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New Voices in the Old South: Latino Immigrant Students' Experiences at one Georgia Middle School
… Each of the case study participants is of Mexican heritage. The students had varied experiences at the research site, leading to the development of differing academic identities. Perceptions of teacher support, self-efficacy, parental involvement, school environment, and availability of …
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The Development and Validation of a Spanish Verbal Memory Test for Children (SVMT-C): A Pilot Study
… of Hispanic origin were represented with Mexican heritage accounting for the majority, which aligns with Dallas, Texas' demographics. A multivariate linear regression model was generated to derive normative data for the SVMT-C. Due to sample size limitations, the final model for this pilot …
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Mexican-Born Immigrant Decision-Making About Self-Management of Type 2 Diabetes
… This study explored how English-speaking Mexican-born immigrants with diabetes 2 (T2D) made decisions about diabetes self-management (DSM).</p> <p>Background: Little is known about the self-care decisions of Mexican-born adults living in America with T2D. This information is needed so that …
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The Family Process Model: Predicting Youth Behavior Problems in Mexican American, African American, and European American Families
… of the family process model to a large sample of Mexican heritage youth and families. Specifically, path models were used to test whether the family process model (where low income-to-needs ratio is negatively associated with maternal mental well-being and more family conflict, which are in turn …
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The Historical Exclusion of Mexican Americans in Music Education
This historical study explores Mexican American student access to music education programs during the four main periods of Mexican American educational experience identified by Chicano education history scholar Gilbert G. Gonzalez (2013): de jure segregation (1900-1950), the inter-American period …
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Influences of maternal acculturation on early childhood obesity risk: From countries to chromosomes
… obesity has disproportionately increased among Mexican children living in the US and Mexico. In the US, by 2014, prevalence of obesity among children of Mexican heritage was similar for US-born and Mexican born children. In Mexico, from 1999 to 2006, obesity prevalence among children ages 5 to …
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Paraíso, caida y regeneración en tres novelas chicanas
… is a clear manifestation of the "fall" from Mexican traditional culture. The old characters* geographic and spiritual removal from what they consider the paradisal state and the slow eroding process of their cultural system is what the novel is about. Although the characters make a vain …
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De Mexicana Tradicional a Mexicana Con-Tradición: Gloria Anzaldúa, Carmen Tafolla y Pat Mora
… Carmen Tafolla para explicar cómo llegaron a ser mexicanas contradición. Se presenta un resumen de la opresión de la mujer mexicana y de la revolución de las chicanas que se oponían a ciertos deberes y valores tradicionales de la generación de sus madres. La chicana abraza sólo esos aspectos de la …