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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"latinidad"”.
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Latinidad and Agency of Voice: Latina Leader Identity Development
<p>Despite increasing gains in educational attainment and presence in the labor force, Latinas are systematically and disproportionately underrepresented in leadership positions across industries and leader levels in the United States. Latinas’ contributions are undervalued in the workplace. As of …
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Latinas Leading with Latinidad: Incorporating the Latina Identity into Leadership
… education leadership positions incorporate Latinidad into their leadership identity and style? What factors (if any) support or challenge Latinas leading in culturally authentic ways in higher education? This study employs decolonized research methods by partnering with Latina participants …
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The Domestic Worker in Latinx Fiction: The Discursive Formation of Latinidad
… character in order to understand the borders of latinidad as based on the exclusion of certain bodies, predominantly black ones. Using the domestic worker characters from Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991) and Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones (1998), and …
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Latinidad in London: An ethnographic study exploring how Latin American Londoners represent their ethnic community discursively
… discursively. It examines how the notion of latinidad is articulated in relation to local and global cultural narratives, and how the London Latino community is constructed strategically and hierarchically. It is guided by a social constructionist perspective and an interpretive approach. It …
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A Latina Captain in Showtime's Dexter: (Un)Veiling a Progressive Image of Latinas through Discourse Analysis of Media-Audience Co-constructions of Latinidad'
… co-construction of contemporary discourses on Latinidad. On the basis of a critical discourse analysis of the television text and online viewer comments, I discuss relations between the meanings encoded in the text and the meanings co-constructed interactively by audiences online, and the …
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Bienvenida a Disney princess Elena: Exploring race, age, and gender in Disney’s Elena of Avalor
… 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 discourses of girls, this dissertation examines Disney’s engagement with these discourses as they …
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Hate it or love it: Global crossover of reggaeton music in the digital age
… signifier for the contested ways in which Latinidad is negotiated in everyday life and, particularly, in relation to discourses of authenticity that circulate through Latin(o/a) popular culture and mainstream media representations of Latinidad.
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<em>¡¿Y Que?!</em>: Punks, Goths, and Musical Outsiders in Latinx Literature and Popular Culture
… regimes. These characters disrupt the notions of Latinidad perpetuated by U.S. depictions of Latinxs, as well as those that perpetuate static, delimiting notions of Latinidad within Latinx groups as well. Through accessing these subcultures, Latinx characters in these texts borrow, manipulate, and …
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The Dictator Novel in YA Latinx Fantasy
… explore the representation and expression of latinidad within the Latinx young adult fantasy novels, and how it has impacted and been woven into the authors' work through the characters’ lives. The dictator novel in YA Latinx fantasy provides a unique lens through which authors can explore and …
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“Fotos y recuerdos” : decolonial ephemera strategies in twenty-first century Latina literature
… harmful narrative constructions surrounding Latinidad in a twenty-first century political climate: documentation as a measure of cultural citizenship, the disparate effects of climate change on Latinx communities, and the persistent objectification of Latinx bodies through exoticization and …
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A Phenomenological Study of Bridging Worlds as Described by Latina Administrators at Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions
… emerged from the data collected were comunidad, Latinidad, and healing. Latina leaders bridge worlds among students, Latino/a/x/e families, Latino/a/x/e communities, colleagues, professional organizations, and higher education institutions, cultivating understanding and collaboration. Based on …
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Between two flags: cultural nationalism and racial formation in Puerto Rican Chicago, 1946-1994
… who collectively influenced the emergence of latinidad. A brief epilogue draws lessons for the present moment."
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Latino encounters: Mexicans, Tejanos, and Puerto Ricans in postwar Michigan, 1929-1971
… that transcended a singular expression of latinidad. Finally, while most histories of foodways and farm labor emerge in the U.S. Southwest and West Coast, my project questions region by centering the Midwest as a site of internal and international migration.
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Mediating alterity: Transitive Indianness in U.S. non-normative medicine
… of gendered Indianness and subsequently latinidad, “Mediating Alterity” builds on theories of transits, boundaries, expectation and anomaly, as well as hybridity and mestizaje to consider inclusion, commodification, and multiculturalism in the context of U.S. institutional non-normative …
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Latin London: Representation of Life in The Diaspora. The Latin American Community In London –1970s Onwards.
… visual activism to understand constructions of Latinidad in the context of gentrification in London. It does so through a series of case studies, each of which raises interesting and significant questions about the urban, community archives, and feminist activism. Methodologically, the thesis …
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In transit: travel and mobility in Latina art and literature
… resistant or assimilationist. Instead, I see Latinidad as less tied geographically to the U.S. and more about the interplay of gender, class, race, sexuality, space, and time. I provide readings of cultural texts that represent Latinas on “unexpected” paths, thus responding to and reimagining …
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Cariño in the Borderlands: Pedagogical Relationships in a Community-Based Education Support Program
… studies. I also offer a different reading on Latinidad as it is lived in Canada and how the different reading of the Canadian context can enrich our understandings of mestizxs.
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“Rantoul es como Jayuya:” (De)valued migrations, education, and progreso within media, Puerto Rico, and the rural Midwest
… dissertation opens a window into the growth of Latinidad in the Midwest in particular and provides insight on life for individuals with different ethnic and racial identities in general. It is a story about movement, labor, class, ethnicity, race, education, families, language, and media. As …