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Showing 1 to 20 of 89 for “"Mexicans"”.
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Racialized Fields: Asians, Mexicans, and the Farm Labor Struggle in California
This dissertation explores the historical struggle of Asian and Mexican origin farm workers in California during the twentieth century. The study investigates how the battle for economic justice, in which farm workers engaged, did not center solely on issues of class. Instead, I utilize the …
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Silence, Power, and Mexicans in Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark
… Civil Rights. Cather includes the plight of Mexicans in her novel and gives voice to those that were silenced and ignored. Even though she was a bestselling author and considered one of the best American writers of the era, she has not been properly credited for how progressive she was in her …
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Latino encounters: Mexicans, Tejanos, and Puerto Ricans in postwar Michigan, 1929-1971
“Latino Encounters: Mexicans, Tejanos, and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Michigan, 1929-1971” examines three groups of Latina/o/xs as they forged national and transnational networks through postwar migration and agricultural labor. I argue that Latina/o/x migrants melded distinct claims to U.S. …
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New social movements and social networking sites' uses: Mexicans' mobilization for peace in Mexico
… Movements and social networking sites' Uses: Mexicans' mobilization for peace in Mexico, an important element in the development of citizen participation on the Internet focused on in the thesis. In this process, this thesis examines how theoretically social movements have been transformed …
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The Color of Youth: Mexicans and the Power of Schooling in Chicago, 1917-1939
… 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 Chicago. This study explores how their …
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Transnational audiences and the reception of television news: a study of Mexicans in Los Angeles
This doctoral contribution borrows from the discursive practices of transnationalism and diaspora in order to articulate the concept of "transnational audiences" in the United States. The project identifies transnational audiences as formed by individuals and families whose lives straddle two …
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Facebook as Transnational Space: Language and Identity among 1.5 and Second Generation Mexicans in Chicago
This dissertation documents a two-year ethnographic study of a Mexican-origin transnational network members’ engagement with each other via Facebook. By focusing on four emic criteria – language, skin color, transnationalism, and culture display and practice – this project examines the ways in …
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The enacted environment--the creation of "place" by Mexicans and Mexican Americans in East Los Angeles
In this thesis I will examine how residents of East Los Angeles use their front yards and streets to create a sense of "place." The environment created in this way I call "enacted." People are both users and creators of a place and thus become "texture" in the urban landscape. People activate …
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A cross-cultural study of leisure among Mexicans in the state of Guerrero, Mexico and Mexican immigrants from Guerrero in the United States
… understanding of the concept of leisure among Mexicans from the state of Guerrero, Mexico and among Mexican immigrants from Guerrero, residing in Chicago, IL with specific emphasis on age, gender, and marital status; (b) Identify forces that shape the experience of leisure among Mexicans from …
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Recommendations to make the affordable housing sector in Mexico more efficient in order to increase the welfare and quality of life of Mexicans
Enrique Peña Nieto, Mexico's current president, voiced strong support for extending the social mission of INFONAVIT -- the largest mortgage lender in Mexico -- to embrace quality of life metrics. He also indicated a strong interest in expanding housing opportunities to segments of the population …
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As Seen Through Foreign Eyes: Nineteenth Century French Images of Mexico and Mexicans and Their Contributions to the Creation of a National Stereotype, 1822-1873
… French and European preconceptions of Mexico and Mexicans and their acquired experience in understanding the racial, social and cultural realities of later 19th century Mexican society. In their search for what it was to be Mexican in order to understand the "other” they came to rule, the French …
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A Community of Modern Nations: The Mexican Herald at the Height of the Porfiriato 1895-1910.
… of Mexico's development that would influence how Mexicans conceived of their country's political and cultural place within a community that transcended national boundaries. As Mexicans experienced rapid modernization led partially by foreign investors, the <em>Herald</em> represented the …
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Becoming Japanese and Mexican: A Trans-Pacific Social History of Race, Mestizaje, and Resistance across Five Generations.
… of mestizaje, in relation to the experiences of Mexicans of Japanese descent from the Mexican Cultural Revolution (1920-1946) to the present. To capture the enduring, yet evolving mestizo system, it attends to geopolitical continuities and shifts in this period, which were informed by the mestizo …
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Class, labor, and color hierarchies: an ethnographic study of Mexican yarderos/as in South Chicago
… in Mexico and the United States, many more Mexicans migrated to Chicago, Illinois. With the decreasing of industrial work in the City of Chicago, Mexicans were forced to enter a growing service sector that gave rise to the lawn maintenance and landscaping service industry. But more …
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The Effect of Obesity on Disability and Mortality in Mexican Older Adults
… and mortality among non-disabled older Mexicans at baseline. Methods: The sample included 8,415 Mexicans aged ≥50 years from the Mexican Health and Aging Study (2001-2012) who reported no limitations in activities of daily living (ADLs) at baseline and have complete data on all …
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Mexican identity in Clark County, Nevada: A visual ethnohistory, 1829-1960
Mexicans were present in southern Nevada since 1829 but their history is not well documented. Often their cultural identity was misrepresented in several Nevada histories. This thesis establishes a written and photographic documentation of the Mexican identity population in southern Nevada between …
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The history of the expropriation of the American oil companies in Mexico
… the educational movement. In order to give the Mexicans an increasing share of the country's wealth, President Cardenas believed that the "process of building cooperatives was to shift the balance of economic power gradually from the capitalist class to the workers". He also believed that …
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The relation of acculturation, criminal history, and social integration of Mexican American and non -Mexican students to assaults on intimate partners
… differences between Mexican Americans and Non-Mexicans in the relation of criminal history and social integration to intimate partner violence were investigated.</p><p>The results indicated that Mexican American ethnicity and acculturation into Anglo American society by Mexican Americans had no …
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El uso de pronombres personales en la oralidad mexicoamericana de Houston, Texas
… 2nd generation and 20 of 3rd generation), and 20 Mexicans (control group) from Heroica Matamoros, Tamaulipas (Mexico-USA border city), and Los Reyes de Salgado, Michoacán (non-border city). Pronouns were codified based on external as well as internal factors; Crosstabs (SPSS) was used for …
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The Harrison High School Walkouts of 1968: Struggle for Equal Schools and Chinanismo in Chicago
… 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 rights era.
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