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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"puerto ricans"”.
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Puerto Ricans in Cambridge : the origins and consequences of regionalism
Thesis. 1976. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Puerto Ricans and Asthma: Looking Through the Lens of Historical Trauma
… design to begin understanding the many ways Puerto Ricans experience asthma. Further is sought to understand the asthma experience broadly and within the context of the hurricanes that devastated Puerto Rico in 2017 including the governments’ responses to that devastation. Another core goal …
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Becoming Ghosts: The Public Veiling of Puerto Ricans in New York City
<p>In recent years Puerto Ricans in New York City have become difficult to locate in the public realm. This is a paradox given that Puerto Ricans make up the largest Hispanic subgroup in the larger metropolitan region. This study examines how, when, and why Puerto Ricans became publicly invisible …
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Educational *Policies and Practices in Lived Context: Puerto Ricans Schooled in Chicago
… study explores the lived experiences of Puerto Rican youth who are products of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS). A critical theoretical framework is utilized to forge a critique of pedagogy and curriculum development within a system that perceives schools as apolitical and teachers as …
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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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Oppression, Puerto Ricans and the church in the empowerment struggle for a "New South End"
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1990.
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Brincamos El Charco Y Ahora Que: Historicizing Puerto Rican Education in Chicago, 1967--1977
… analysis of the educational experiences of Puerto Ricans in Chicago following the Division Street Riot of 1966 till 1977, chronicling the ways in which the racialization of Puerto Ricans in Chicago has resulted in schooling inequalities, forcing community response in the hopes to alleviate …
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Brincamos el charco y ahora que: Historicizing Puerto Rican education in Chicago, 1967-1977
… analysis of the educational experiences of Puerto Ricans in Chicago following the Division Street Riot of 1966 till 1977, chronicling the ways in which the racialization of Puerto Ricans in Chicago has resulted in schooling inequalities, forcing community response in the hopes to alleviate …
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Linguistic Change in a Language Contact Situation: A Cross-Generational Study
… language contact situation of New York bilingual Puerto Ricans. The subjects of the study are ten first and second generation Puerto Ricans. This dissertation addresses two hypotheses: first that 'a life cycle of language use' exists in the El Barrio community, and second, that emigrant languages …
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Culture Care of Puerto Rican Elderly in a Community Setting
… expressions, and practices of urban elderly Puerto Ricans residing in a mid-sized community. The Culture Care Theory was used as the guiding framework in studying the domain of inquiry: the discovery of the meanings and practices of generic care and professional health care of elderly …
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Pathway into care for pediatric asthma
… health care providers and a sample of Boston Puerto Rican parents of children with asthma perceive asthma based on data collected through informal interviews. Puerto Ricans are one of the Latino subgroups who remain most at risk for asthma morbidity and are the most represented Latino subgroup …
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A Faith-Based Primary Diabetes Prevention Intervention for At-Risk Puerto Rican Adults: A Feasibility Study
… that disproportionately affects Hispanics of Puerto Rican heritage. Current evidence supports diabetes prevention programs to change health behaviors in people who are at risk and thus prevent the development of type 2 diabetes. However, few interventions exist for Hispanics, and even fewer …
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Suicide Attempt and Characteristics of Religiously Affiliated Puerto Rican Adolescents and Young Adults
… attempted suicide among the general population. Puerto Ricans, in general, and Puerto Rican Seventh-day Adventists (SDAs), in particular, may face unique challenges that are related to their familial, social, and religious environment that may affect the suicidal attempts among this group. …
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“Rantoul es como Jayuya:” (De)valued migrations, education, and progreso within media, Puerto Rico, and the rural Midwest
This dissertation juxtaposes representations of Puerto Rican migration in the media with narratives of individuals engaging in rural-to-rural migration between the island and the United States in the 21st century. Specifically, this qualitative project based on ethnographic methods unveils how (1) …
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Divorcing Tradition: Marriage, Family and Female Homosociality in Puerto Rican Literature
… Rosario Ferre, and Ana Lydia Vega, three Puerto Rican women writers of the twentieth century. In unique ways, Capetillo, Ferre and Vega destabilize the various legal and literary versions of the heteropatriarchal family imposed locally and by the colonial government. Their narratives …
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Diasporic tactics
… urban renewal planners threatened two thousand Puerto Ricans out of their homes in Parcel 19 of Boston's South End during the late 1960s. Personally, I like to accredit the success of Villa Victoria to a form of behavior called "hustling" which most displaced people quickly turn to in order to …
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Variations in Educational Attainment Among DIfferent Latino Subgroups
… in terms of the subgroup analysis, Mexicans and Puerto Ricans are less likely to go to college then their Cuban peers. Finally, Cubans do not differ significantly from their Asian or White peers. These preliminary findings begin to illustrate the dangers in using a pan-ethnic label.
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"Construyendo Nuestro Pedacito De Patria": Space and Dis(place)ment in Puerto Rican Chicago
… performance and production of post-World War II Puerto Rican urban space in Chicago. Specifically, I contend that the articulation of Puerto Rican spatiality in the city has emerged primarily as a response to the threat of local displacement as a byproduct of urban renewal and gentrification. I …
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Three Essays on Hispanics: the Use of Spanish, Content Analysis and Social Network Analysis
… of the three major subpopulations of Hispanics: Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Mexicans and their policy goals. This research shows that Hispanics should not be understood to be a homogenous population but rather a conglomeration of nations and cultures which Speak Spanish. The last section of this …
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Filipino American Mothers’ Knowledge about Male HPV Vaccination and Intent to Vaccinate their Sons
… were collected from the following populations: Puerto Ricans, Ugandans, Caribbean Americans and African Americans. All studies were cross-sectional and integrated questionnaires which distinguished parents’ knowledge and attitude toward HPV vaccinations along with additional information such as …
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