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Martinez, Katynka Zazueta. "The "Latin Explosion," media audiences, and the marketing of Latino panethnicity : Latina Magazine and the Latin Grammys in a Post-Selena América /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3112195.

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Fernández, Sandy M. (Sandy Michele). "Notes from a Latina in Canada : criticism and stories." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=68087.

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While writing in English by Hispanas has been in publication for decades, it is only in the last few years that the writing and its attendant criticism have attracted mainstream attention in the United States. The purpose of this work is to provide an introduction to different facets of Hispana writing. The first section of the work, an essay titled, "Emerging Criticism and Themes in Hispana Literature," provides an up-dated overview of issues within Hispana literary criticism and major themes within the writing itself. The latter part of that essay uses as its framework Tey Diana Rebolledo's 1985 essay, "The Maturing of Chicana Poetry: the Quiet Revolution of the 1980's." The second section of the work consists of four original short stories which reflect some of the general characteristics of Hispana writing. Together, the two parts are intended to provide Canadian scholars with a succinct introduction to this growing field, and thus aid and encourage them to further explore it on their own.

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Sánchez, Rondón Julio César. "Poética de lo soez Luis Rafael Sánchez : Identidad y cultura en América Latina y en el Caribe (Puerto Rico) /." [Lincoln, Neb.] : University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2006. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=modlangdiss.

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De, Maio del Pozo Mariana Sabina. "Latinos in Missouri the media role in the acculturation process /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5776.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on August 28, 2008) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Mendoza-Revilla, Javier. "Detecting signals of selection in the genomes of Native Americans and admixed Latin Americans." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10060992/.

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The peopling of the Americas represents the last major expansion of human populations worldwide. As the first humans moved into the continent they were exposed to new environments requiring them to adapt. The subsequent colonization of the continent by Europeans, along with the African slave trade, involved a major admixture process that was accompanied by new selective pressures, most notably exposure to new pathogens. Applying current and novel methods to genome-wide SNP data of Native and admixed Latin Americans, this PhD thesis provides an analysis of the adaptive history in the Americas. I show that prior to the European contact, candidate regions of selection in Native Americans include genes associated with metabolic traits, highlighting a possible adaptation to dietary changes. Using novel and existing methods to detect selection post-admixture, I show that genes related to immune response were probably under selection in admixed Latin Americans. As an example on the evolution of an adaptive trait, I also conduct a Genome Wide Association Study on a sample of over 6,000 Latin Americans for skin, eye and hair pigmentation. I report eighteen independent genome-wide significant signals of association, including five novel variants. One of the novel variants associated to skin pigmentation is common in East Asians and Native Americans, but is almost absent everywhere else in the world. I show that this variant was selected in East Asians after their split from Europeans, and likely carried by the first Americans to the Americas.

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Marshall, Stephen John. "Spanish-speaking Latin Americans in Catalonia : constructions of Catalan." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020495/.

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Catalan is an autochthonous minority language within the Spanish state that is undergoing a programme of linguistic normalisation which is widely regarded as a successful model. Today, its progress is being challenged by globalisation, mass migration, and the sociolinguistic agencies of new migrants, in particular Spanishspeaking Latin Americans, who are allochthonous speakers of marked varieties of the official language of the Spanish state. The micro-level focus of the study is on how Spanish-speaking Latin Americans are constructing Catalan: how Catalan is being incorporated into repertoire (in-group and inter-group), and how and why individuals are forming conflicting constructions of being addressed in Catalan. At the macro level, the focus is on how policies of linguistic normalisation of the Catalan language are responding to the challenges of globalisation, and to the sociolinguistic agencies of new migrants, especially Spanishspeakers. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with 44 informants, and recordings made of the interactions of 11 of them. The focus of the data collection was on [i] Spanish-speaking Latin Americans' interactions involving Catalan, [ii] on the paths of migration and of identity formation along which individuals' epistemologies evolve, consolidate and transform, and [iii] on informants' opinions about language policies. The study is framed around 'structure and agency' (Giddens, 1984), and the data analysed according to a view of language as recursive social practice, which links the macro and the micro, seeing individuals' agencies as the outcomes of social structures and also as engendering change in these structures. Central to individuals' recursive language practice is knowledgeability and reflexivity (Giddens, 1984) as they interact in a heteroglossic Catalonia (Pujolar, 2001), and negotiate codeswitching norms of practice that are specific to Catalonia, in particular an 'accommodation norm' (Woolard, 1989) which involves Catalan speakers often switching to Castilian with interlocutors who do not look or sound Catalan.

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Granada, Ana. "Latin Americans in London : language, integration and ethnic identity." Thesis, Aston University, 2014. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/24402/.

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This thesis studies the links between language, migration and integration in the context of the 'new migrant' group of Latin Americans in London. It reviews the many ways in which language impacts the integration processes of migrants by influencing people's access to jobs, services, social contacts and information. By focusing on migrants' experiences this research also investigates the ways in which language and identity articulate, as well as the affective variables that are at play in the acquisition of the local language. With a large sector trapped in a cycle of poor command of English and labour market disadvantage, many Latin Americans experience exclusion and poverty. In reaction to this, a sector of the community is campaigning for ethnic minority recognition. This work reviews the debates for recognition and the strategy of organising around ethnicity, paying special attention to the role language plays in the process. The study is based on over two and half years of qualitative research, which included interviews, surveys, and long-term participant observation within a community organisation and a recognition campaign. Its interdisciplinary perspective allows the recognition of both the intimate links between language and identity, as well as the social and structural forces that influence migrants' linguistic integration. It unveils the practical and symbolic value that the mother tongue has for Latin American migrants and provides a broader account of their experiences. This research calls attention to the need for a more comprehensive approach to the study of language and migration in order to acknowledge the affective and social factors involved in the linguistic practices of migrants. By studying the community's struggles for recognition, this work evidences both the importance of visibility for minority groups in London and the intrinsic methodological limitations of monitoring through ethnic categorisation.

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Aizpurúa, Romina Iebra. "Through the women's eyes Latin American women's experience of immigration to Australia /." full-text, 2008. http://eprints.vu.edu.au/2051.

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Delgado, Daniel J. ""It was all black and white and there was nothing in between" Latin@ identity negotiation in the Midwest /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5873.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on September 13, 2007) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Raymondi, Mary Daly. "Latino students explore racial and ethnic identity in a global context." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2004.

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Woodward, Laura Lynn 1961. "Central Americans in Tucson, Arizona." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/277068.

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Citizens of El Salvador and Guatemala have experienced life-threatening situations in their native lands that have forced them to make choices in order to survive. Those choices include coming to the United States in search of political asylum. Travelling through Mexico and arriving and settling in the United States require the use of a variety of adaptive strategies. By employing kinship and friendship networks, using community services, organizing voluntary associations, learning English, and compartmentalizing their own culture while being absorbed into the larger Mexican and Anglo cultures, they are able to meet their needs. Of those who come to Tucson, many leave due to difficulties in finding jobs and the lack of affordable legal aid. Those who stay do so because they are awaiting court dates, desire to remain close to their families or have been successful in finding work.

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Suarez, Daniella Alessandra. "Selling Downtown Miami as the Epicenter of the Americas: Including Latin Americans and Excluding Low-Income Locals?" Scholarly Repository, 2010. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_theses/47.

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Miami is no longer just known as the playground for Latin America's wealthy, rather, it has become increasingly identified as the business, commercial and cultural center of South Florida and the Americas. This increasing importance and global scope has led to the idea of making Miami into a "new" world city a development priority. The city's geographical proximity to Latin America and the Caribbean makes it an ideal city within the United States to form transnational ties and to attract more business from the region and hopefully the rest of the world. How does the idea of being a "world city" affect the types of projects that have taken place or will be taking place in recent years? Does this idea cater only to Latin American elites and the global sphere while ignoring the needs of local residents in adjacent areas? Megaprojects such as Museum Park and the Miami World Center are set to solidify MiamiÕs position as a global node and a greater regional hub. These projects will be built in the two areas of Downtown that do not enjoy the same cosmopolitan lifestyle as the Central Business District and the Brickell areas, in hopes of creating a different identity or a brand for these generally lower-income areas. Adjacent Overtown does not receive this kind of attention. This paper will examine how Downtown Miami is aiming at "world city" status, attempting to attract foreign capital--both economic and social--while neglecting to place a greater importance on homegrown talent and low-income locals living in neighborhoods adjacent to "developing" areas.

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Clark, Tiffanie R. "Central Americans in Movement: A Diasporic Revival of Poesia Comprometida." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1593273591518189.

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Gacheru, Tarsicio. "A Developmental Project Focusing on Young Adult Hispanic-Americans." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3676.

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Reducing diabetes risk among Hispanic-American adults in the United States is a critical public health need and programs targeting young Hispanic-American adults with prediabetes can reduce the risk for developing diabetes. The purpose of this project was twofold: (a) to examine the literature related to diabetes prevention best practices among young adult Hispanic-Americans with prediabetes and (b) create an intervention program to promote these best practices to delay or reverse the trajectory toward diabetes. The inclusion criteria for the literature review were studies with at least a 12-month follow-up and reported outcomes related to changes in diet, increased exercise, and the effects of psychotherapy as modeled in the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP). Studies that met these inclusion criteria for the period 2002 through January 2016 were evaluated and 11 studies supported the development of recommendations for future implementation. Pender's health promotion model provided useful theoretical support for the effectiveness of individual health behavior changes to reduce the risk of developing diabetes. Based on the literature review, proposed interventions included dietary interventions, behavior modifications, and both aerobic and resistance exercise training adapted for the young adult Hispanic-American population. The planned interventions will fill an evidence-to-practice gap in application of the DPP. The program when implemented will promote social change through lifestyle modifications among young adult Hispanic-Americans with prediabetes and is expected to improve dietary intake, weekly exercise, fasting glucose, and glucose tolerance and support weight loss, all of which can delay or stop progression to diabetes.

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Bachmann, Rachel E. "Germans and Latin Americans trade places intercultural experience and writing against dictatorship /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3344552.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Germanic Studies, 2008.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Oct 5, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-02, Section: A, page: 0575. Adviser: Marc Weiner.

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Buré-Reyes, Annelly. "Neuropsychological test performance of Spanish speakers : is performance similar across different Spanish speaking subgroups? /." Electronic version (PDF), 2006. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2006/burea/annellybure-reyes.html.

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Ackert, Elizabeth Stacy. "The limits of interculturalismo education and diversity in Spain's new era of immigration /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p1450160.

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Esquivel-King, Reyna M. "Mexican Film Censorship and the Creation of Regime Legitimacy, 1913-1945." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555601229993353.

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Semones, Catherine M. "Indigenous Agency within 17th & 18th Century Jesuit Missions: the Creation of a Hybrid Culture in Yaqui and Tarahumar Country." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1275931147.

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Vitale, Michele. "Evaluating access barriers to primary health care servcies for Hispanic residents in toombs County, Georgia." Auburn, Ala., 2007. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2007%20Spring%20Theses/VITALE_MICHELE_14.pdf.

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Ciallela, Pietro C. "From Italian national parish to multicultural community the expanding Scalabrinian mission in the Chicago area, 1960-1980 /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Junior, Valdir Donizete dos Santos. "A trama das ideias: intelectuais, ensaios e construção de identidades na América Latina (1898-1914)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-12032014-125919/.

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Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo analisar a questão da circulação de ideias e a construção de identidades na América Latina a partir de três ensaios produzidos entre fins do século XIX e inícios do século XX: El porvenir de las naciones hispanoamericanas (1899), do mexicano Francisco Bulnes (1847-1924); A América Latina: males de origem (1905), do brasileiro Manoel Bomfim (1868-1932) e Les democraties latines de lAmerique (1912), do peruano Francisco García Calderón (1883-1953). Por meio desses textos, este trabalho procura discutir as concepções sobre o fazer intelectual presente em cada um desses autores, o processo de elaboração e circulação das ideias no subcontinente em relação aos paradigmas europeu e norte-americano e a variedade de projetos identitários existentes na América Latina no umbral do século XX. O cotejo desses três ensaios permite que se explicite um conjunto de temas e problemas comuns que permeavam o pensamento político na América Latina da época, entre os quais é importante ressaltar a discussão sobre o lugar do subcontinente no mundo diante da expansão do capitalismo e do imperialismo entre fins do século XIX e inícios do século XX.
I intend to analyze in this research three major essays produced in Latin America in the beginning of the 20th Century: El porvenir de las naciones hispanoamericanas (1899), by Mexican Francisco Bulnes (1847-1924); A América Latina: males de origem (1905), by Brazilian Manoel Bomfim (1868- 1932) and Les démocraties latines de lAmerique (1912), by Peruvian Francisco García Calderón (1883-1953). I will emphasize the problems around the circulation of ideas and the building of identities in the subcontinent. The comparison among these three essays will allow me to discuss a whole set of common themes and issues related to political ideas in Latin America at that time and to think about Latin Americas place during the so called Age of Empire.

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Yamazato, Akiko. "Interminority Relations in the Early 1990s in California: Conflicts among African-Americans, Latinos, and Asian-Americans." W&M ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626388.

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Saloga, Clinton W. "Have delayed independence and poor initial institutions been economically costly for Latin Americans?" Thesis, Wichita State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/3971.

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This paper tests the hypothesis that the timing of independence in Latin America and the institutions in place at the time of independence had a joint effect on the developmental paths of the countries. A new variable is presented - the interaction term between the timing of independence and initial institutions, and then tested with Multiple OLS Regressions. The findings support the notion that earlier independence in conjunction with better initial institutions may have had a positive influence on long-term economic growth in Latin American countries using data from 1990-2004.
Thesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, The W. Frank Barton School of Business, Dept. of Economics

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Lacayo, Buckley Nidia Patricia. "Factors that inhibit the acquisition of English by Hispanic adults." Muncie, Ind. : Ball State University, 2009. http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/706.

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Enríquez, Arana Eddy Magaliel. "The dynamics of salsiology in contemporary Germany reconstructing German cultural identity through salsa music and dance /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1177697944.

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Jamal, Sheri K. Henderson James W. "Hispanic assimilation to American health insurance." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/4825.

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Carte, Rebecca Ann. "Framing Frontiers: Landscape and Discourse in Baltasar de Obregón's Historia de los descubrimientos de Nueva España (1584)." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1211906082.

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Young, Max Joe. "An inquiry into the Latin and Spanish cultural presentations of Spanish first year textbooks." Click here to access dissertation, 2007. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/archive/fall2006/max_j_young/Young_Max_J_200701_edd.pdf.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Georgia Southern University, 2007.
"A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Education." Under the direction of William M. Reynolds. ETD. Electronic version approved: May 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-201)

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McDowell, Garrett Alexandrea. "Eating Potato Chips with Chopsticks: Nikkei Latin Americans Making Home, Shaping Family and Defining Selves." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/46251.

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Anthropology
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This dissertation examines the effects of return migration on Nikkei (of Japanese descent) sending communities in the Soconusco Region (Acacoyagua), Chiapas, Mexico and Lima, Peru. Massive numbers of Nikkei Latin Americans have been returning to Japan in the last two decades filling a shortage in low-skill labor. The Nikkei mass exodus is indicative of the global economic pattern that has caught Latin American countries in a downward economic spiral resulting in joblessness and class polarization. For many, transnational migration is the only viable option for economic survival. This research illustrates how Nikkei are strategically making home, shaping family and defining selves through return migration. Nikkei Latin Americans (those who go and those who stay) approach return as Ganbatteando (doing one's best) embracing and making-their-own the Japanese concept of Ganbarimas. This study examines the local impacts of a global phenomenon broadening the traditional anthropological approach on spatially localized groups to address identity-formation as a discursive phenomenon situated in-between, across and outside, yet still connected to fixed or bounded locations or nations. I explore how Japanese in Latin America reconcile their Japanese roots with their embedded experience in their Latin American birthplace as well as their newest and current experiences in Japan to construct variable, changing and unique identities. Nikkei, situated in and creating a temporal and spatial borderzone are forming, reforming, and transforming home, family and identity as their local communities and marriage options, are depleted. By incorporating non-Nikkei-but-Nikkei-enthusiasts, Nikkei are sustaining and reinforcing endogamous marriage at a time when the emigration of large numbers of marriageable-aged Nikkei make that otherwise impossible. In this process, they are making intimate choices: reasserting ethnic strongholds in the homes of their choice, shifting and strategically broadening kinship and community boundaries, and at the same time more strictly regulating inclusion and exclusion. Nikkei are eating potato chips with chopsticks at the same time that non-Nikkei in Latin America are frying sushi.
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Salazar, Janela Aida. "TWO CULTURES, ONE IDENTITY: BICULTURALISM OF YOUNG MEXICAN AMERICANS." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cld_etds/48.

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The purpose of this study was to explore the daily life of the younger generation of Mexican Americans through a phenomenology design. Specifically, in regard to how the culture-sharing pattern of biculturalism is reflected in their lives and the way they construct their bicultural identity. The study utilized rich qualitative data to paint a clear and descriptive picture of the internal process of biculturalism within eight Mexican American college students. Ultimately, the data analysis aimed to collect and reflect their voices and the stories. This was done through three distinct data methods that complemented each other: interviews (oral), photo elicitation (visual), and document analysis (written). Results indicate that, the way bicultural individuals organize and respond to their culture in terms of behavior and cognition, is independent from the feelings they experience while engaging in cultural frame switching. No matter how well the participants are able to organize their dual cultures and compartmentalize them in their life, they still struggle with conflicting and opposing feelings. Nonetheless, even though their cultures and ideologies can clash at times and feel contradictory, this young generation can still manage to respond and function in both cultures, but to varying degrees.

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Ortiz, Valdez Miguel Alberto. "Integrating faith into social services for homeless immigrants." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Newman, Esther S. "Sojourners, Spies and Citizens: The Interned Latin American Japanese Civilians during World War II." Connect to resource online, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1210777704.

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Myers, Melissa L. "Mujeres Fuertes: Strong Women in Environmental Work on the US-Mexico Border." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1274723786.

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Dellenback, Richard. "Oregon's Cuban-American community : from revolution to assimilation." PDXScholar, 1990. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4046.

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The adjustment and assimilation achieved by Cuban-Americans who arrived in Oregon during the 1960s was notable for its rapidity. Little contact existed between the state and the island prior to the resettlement efforts begun by the Charities Division of the Portland Catholic Archdiocese, where a group of concerned administrators meshed their activities with a nation-wide program created and encouraged by the united States government and private agencies.

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Pereyra, Elías Reneé, Percy Mayta-Tristan, Idrogo Juan José Montenegro, Christian R. Mejia, A. Gabriel Abudinén, Peralta Rita Azucas, Fernandez Jorge Barrezueta, et al. "Differences on Primary Care Labor Perceptions in Medical Students from 11 Latin American Countries." PLoS ONE, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/617247.

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Background The shortage in Latin-American Primary Care (PC) workforce may be due to negative perceptions about it. These perceptions might be probably influenced by particular features of health systems and academic environments, thus varying between countries. Methods Observational, analytic and cross-sectional multicountry study that evaluated 9,561 first and fifth-year medical students from 63 medical schools of 11 Latin American countries through a survey. Perceptions on PC work was evaluated through a previously validated scale. Tertiles of the scores were created in order to compare the different countries. Crude and adjusted prevalence ratios were calculated using simple and multiple Poisson regression with robust variance. Results Approximately 53% of subjects were female; mean age was 20.4±2.9 years; 35.5%were fifth-year students. Statistically significant differences were found between the study subjects’ country, using Peru as reference. Students from Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Paraguay perceived PC work more positively, while those from Ecuador showed a less favorable position. No differences were found among perceptions of Bolivian, Salvadoran, Honduran and Venezuelan students when compared to their Peruvian peers. Conclusions Perceptions of PC among medical students from Latin America vary according to country. Considering such differences can be of major importance for potential local specific interventions.

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Hill, Tami Rene 1967. "Fragile community: Trauma, truth, transformation and the social construction of suffering among Latin Americans and the staff of a United States torture treatment center." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10083.

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xi, 246 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.
This dissertation focuses on Latin American survivors of political violence and the staff members involved with one of the few torture treatment centers in the US. Relying primarily on life histories and semi-structured interviews, my research focuses on the social construction of suffering (Kleinman et al. 1997) created by the staff and participants over the course of three different eras of the center. While the clients of this center lead lives that are tremendously impacted by the violent histories of their home countries, they do so while living in a country where this history is almost completely invisible. As exiles, they are removed from the arena of collective memory reflected in debates in postwar transitional Latin American societies about the meaning of the past, the reasons for their suffering, and the need for historical truth. Consequently, I examine the torture treatment center as one arena where this history and the suffering of survivors is acknowledged. As such, I argue that the staff serves as a critical social network--indeed, perhaps the only one--that influences the individual interpretations, narratives, and actions of survivors about the meaning of trauma, the importance of the past, and how one best heals from violence. First, I illustrate how the biographies of staff shape their involvement with the center and the meaning the center has for them, which, in turn, leads to both the promise and predicaments of their work for social change. Second, this research illustrates the diverse forms that trauma can take and argues for a connection among structural, transitional, and political violence. Third, I explore how the meaning attributed to trauma and the past shapes notions held by the center's staff and participants regarding how one best heals from trauma. Throughout the exploration of these themes, my work identifies the presence of certain discourses and the absence of others--the frictions and fragments occurring in engagements between social service networks and those they serve (Tsing 2005)--that reflect the possibilities for and limitations of individual healing and collective change and that make this center a "fragile community."
Advisers: Dr. Lynn Stephen, Co-Chair; Dr. Philip Young, Co-Chair

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Fernandez, Delia M. "From Spanish-Speaking to Latino: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in West Michigan, 1924-1978." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437439370.

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Martinez, Carlos M. II. "The "Re-Latinization" of New Orleans in the Twentieth Century: Multiple Waves of Hispanic Migration." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2010. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1175.

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Latin Americans immigrating to New Orleans during the Jim Crow period found New Orleans to be a place where they could assimilate. Several factors produced a tolerant climate for Latin Americans. These included New Orleanians' tolerant attitude, which was possible since Latin Americans arrived in small numbers and different waves. Latinos also helped develop trade with Latin America. Also, unlike other areas in the country, immigrants that came to New Orleans came from all over Central and South America. They were a highly skilled group and acted as cultural and power brokers between Latin America and the city. In spite of the variety of racial mixtures, Latinos in New Orleans could claim social and legal whiteness. A pattern of immigration is revealed: small numbers, economic, cultural and educational diversity, a desire to assimilate rather than segregate, and social and economical mobility.

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Jimenez, Teresa Moreno. "THE MEXICAN AMERICAN VIETNAM WAR SERVICEMAN: THE MISSING AMERICAN." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2015. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1524.

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The Vietnam War brought many changes to society in that it soon became one of the most controversial wars in United States history. There was a tremendous loss of life as well as a rift in the nation with the rise of anti-war protest. Those drafted for the war primarily came from low-income and ethnic minority communities. While all who served deserve to be recognized, there is one group that has gone largely unrepresented in the history of the war. Mexican American serviceman served and died in large numbers when compared to their population. In addition, they also received high honors for their valor in the battlefield. Yet, the history of the war has been largely focused on the experience of the Anglo and Black soldier. This is due in part to the existing black-white paradigm of race that has existed in United States society, which places all other ethnic minority groups in the margins of major historical events. Biased Selective Service Boards contributed to the already existing race and class discrimination that existed among the elite class in society. This study utilizes interviews, oral histories, autobiographies and anthologies as its main source of information of Mexican American Vietnam War servicemen. Due to the lack of historical material in this area, most information on participation and casualty rates are estimates conducted by professors such as Ralph Guzman, from the University of Santa Cruz. Guzman took the number of Spanish surnamed casualties in the southwestern states to calculate an approximate number of total casualties. The major aim is to highlight the contribution of the Mexican American serviceman in Vietnam and to emphasize the patriotism that existed in the Mexican American community as much as it did in the Black and Anglo communities. By providing information in the area of American identity, race relations, the draft and volunteerism as well as the sacrifice of Mexican American lives at the time of the Vietnam War, this study hopes to initiate the inclusion of Mexican Americans in the general history of the war. Keywords: Mexican American, Chicano/a, Selective Service , draft boards, whiteness, New Standards Men, Project 100,000, Lyndon Johnson, League of United Latin-American Citizens (LULAC), Medal of Honor, sacrifice, patriotism.

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Staats, Natira Deziraie. "Predictors of alcohol use in Latin American adolescents and young adults in the U.S.: a longitudinal analysis." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/35447.

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Master of Science
School of Family Studies and Human Services
Joyce Baptist
There is a need for culturally sensitive clinical interventions for substance use disorders. Parental modeling, peer alcohol use, and depression are related to alcohol use, but have not been specifically examined among Latin American adolescents and young adults in the U.S. The purpose of this study is to examine contributing factors to alcohol use in Latin American adolescents and young adults in the U.S. Participants included 400 Hispanic and Latino adolescents from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Results from a path analysis suggested that parent and peer alcohol use are associated with adolescent alcohol use and that adolescent alcohol use mediates the relationship between peer alcohol use and young adult alcohol use. Clinical and research implications are described.

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Lange, Julia Janine [Verfasser], and Gabriele [Akademischer Betreuer] Vogt. "Tudo filho de Deus : the social integration of Latin Americans in Tokyo / Julia Janine Lange. Betreuer: Gabriele Vogt." Hamburg : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1053811292/34.

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Maxwell, Joshua Alexander. "An Exploration of Latin American Leadership as Seen Through the Theoretical Models of Charles Ramírez Berg and Juana Bordas." Marietta College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marhonors1303502439.

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Garcia-Pusateri, Yvania. "HOMEPLACE: A Case-Study of Latinx students experiences in making meaning within a multicultural center." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1578429485170412.

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Uhrig, Megan Nicole. "The Andean Exception: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Absence of Large-Scale Indigenous Social Mobilization in Peru." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1365603733.

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Pérez, Claudia María Lara. "Capturing the stories of non-college preparatory Latina/o high school graduates reclaiming their stake in education and their dreams /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1273093971&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Cohen, Erez. "Re-thinking the 'migrant community' : a study of Latin American migrants and refugees in Adelaide." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phc6782.pdf.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 259-270) Based on 18-months fieldwork, 1997-1999, in various organisations, social clubs and radio programs that were constructed by participants and 'outsiders' as an expression of a local migrant community. Attempts to answer and challenge what it means to be a Latin American in Adelaide and in what sense Latin American migrants and refugees in Adelaide can be spoken about as members of an 'ethnic/migrant community' in relation to the official multiculturalism discourse and popular representations of migrants in Australia.

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Geary, James P. "Social Realism in Central America: the Modern Short Story Translated." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1215444512.

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Ahaiwe, Chinedum Israel. "Qualitative study of cultural barriers influencing management of diabetes among Hispanic Americans in Hidalgo County." Thesis, University of Phoenix, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3583331.

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This qualitative ethnographic study explored cultural barriers influencing Hispanic Americans in managing diabetes in south Texas. The study explored a descriptive account to understand diabetes, the possibility of the disease developing, and lack of diabetes management among Hispanic Americans at the United States-Mexico border in south Texas. The study focused on recruiting 50 Hispanic American adults who have diabetes in nursing homes and doctor’s office in Hidalgo County, Texas. The goal includes identifying common areas of cultural barriers influencing diabetes management. These barriers include language problems, family ties, keeping good and healthy diet, lifestyles, lack of education, socioeconomic issues, poor awareness, and poverty. The study used instruments including demographic questionnaire and open-ended face-to-face interview questions to collect data. The interview guide based on questions from these instruments explored cultural barriers. These barriers make it difficult for people of this ethnic background to see diabetes as a disease they can manage. This ethnographic study identified emerging themes encouraging awareness and change in the way Hispanic Americans in Hidalgo County in rural south Texas view diabetes. Future studies might involve using mixed or quantitative studies to validate findings of this study and provide a broader perspective on cultural barriers influencing the management of diabetes in minority populations.

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Laurel, Mallory Patricia Laurel. "On the Way to Believing." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1523455950839995.

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