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Showing 1 to 20 of 129 for “"Mexican-Americans"”.
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Teaching Prejudice: Mexican Americans in Texas History Textbooks
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Mexican Americans Fared Well Under Parr’s Duval County Machine
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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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Genetics of Obesity In Starr County, Texas Mexican Americans
<p>Currently, over two-thirds of Americans are classified as over-weight or obese. Obesity increases risk for many other diseases including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and cancer, making obesity the largest public health problem in America and most other Westernized nations. Hispanics …
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Hypertension Prevalence Trends Among Mexican-Americans: NHANES 1999-2016
… and past hypertension prevalence trends among Mexican Americans (MAs) and non-Hispanic whites (NH-Whites) using NHANES data from 1999 to 2016, as well as the current American Heart Association (AHA) and American College of Cardiology (ACC) blood pressure guidelines of 2017. This project …
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Obesity, Diabetes, and Disability in Older Mexican Americans, 1993-2011
… and at all educational levels. However, in Mexican Americans, the increased level of obesity only partially accounts for their higher prevalence of diabetes compared with non-Hispanic Whites. These high rates of both obesity and diabetes are also related to higher levels of disability in …
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Challenging Notions of U.S. Citizenship: The Contributions of Mexican Americans
… the privileges that go along with it, such as Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans.</p>
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Social Support and Viral Reactivation in US and Foreign-Born Mexican Americans
… of mortality outcomes for low-SES Hispanic Americans that more closely compare to higher-SES Caucasians than lower-SES African Americans. Curiously, Hispanics, especially those born outside the United States, have higher levels of infection and reactivation of herpesviruses that are …
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Narrative Accounts of Third-Generation Mexican-Americans: Bilingualism in a Third Space
… the narrative accounts of third-generation Mexican-American adults—the generation that typically loses the heritage language—in order to understand how they construct the experience of being socialized to use English and Spanish throughout their lives.</p> <p>Data consist of ten, hour-long, …
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The Struggle for Balance: Culture Care Worldview of Mexican Americans About Diabetes Mellitus
… care worldview about Diabetes Mellitus (DM) for Mexican American participants. Leininger's Culture Care Diversity and Universality Theory served as an organizing framework Interviews were conducted with thirty Mexican American key participants without DM. Four phases of analysis of ethnonursing …
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The Role of Acculturation in the Health Belief Model for Mexican-Americans with Type II Diabetes
… Ethnicity plays a large role with Hispanic-Americans having one of the highest prevalence rates. Diabetes is a complicated disease that requires significant lifestyle modifications. The health belief model (HBM) has been investigated as a theory to explain behavior change. However, little …
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Acculturation Level, Generational Status and Gender: Their Role in Acculturative Stress in Young Adolescent Mexican Americans
… determined by the Acculturation Rating Scale for Mexican Americans-II (ARSMA-II) and acculturative stress was determined by the Societal, Attitudinal, Familial and Environmental Acculturative Stress Scale-Children's Version (SAFE-C). Subjects included 1268 Hispanic children ages 11-15. In order to …
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An Examination of Perceptions for Family Acculturation, Family Leisure Involvement, and Family Functioning among Mexican-Americans
… and family leisure involvement from Mexican-American parent, youth, and family perspectives. Acculturation of parents, youth, and families was measured using the Bidimensional Acculturation Scale for Hispanics (BAS). Family leisure involvement was measured using the Family Leisure …
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Plessy to Brown: Education of Mexican Americans in Arizona public schools during the era of segregation
… that shaped the public school education of Mexican American children in Arizona in the first half of the twentieth century. This study also examines how segregation was established in two cities in northern Arizona and how schooling affected the feelings and emotions of former students. From …
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