Browsing by Subject "Latino"
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(Art Libraries Society of North America, 2010-05-15)Often university libraries or archive/special collections house large fine art and photographic collections by African American and Latino artists. These collections are frequently hidden due to inadequate funding to ...
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Bilingual Education, Acculturation, and the Psychological Health of Mexican-Heritage Preadolescents (2015-07-29)As the population of the U.S. becomes increasingly diverse, and greater numbers of children in U.S. public schools speak a language other than English at home, an intensified interest has begun to focus upon the lives of ...
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(2012-10-19)As the most prevalent chronic health condition in children under the age of 18, asthma is a disease for which significant health disparities exist. Current literature has established that ethnic minorities, families living ...
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The research investigates the “Latino health paradox” through the health determinant of birth outcomes and two levels of intersectionality expressed within the context of the cultural, the economic, and the political. The ...
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(2009-05-15)This research study was a qualitative study involving eight current or former school board members of a recently annexed, rural, impoverished, Latino school district in South Texas. The purpose of this intrinsic case study ...
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(2013-07-22)This dissertation examines the racial identities of middleclass Mexican Americans, and provides a focus on how racial oppression plays a significant role in the formation, negotiation, and organization of these identities. ...
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(2011-02-22)In this study, I specify the reasons why racial minority undergraduate students choose to pursue higher education studies at historically White colleges/universities, despite the schools' potential for diversity controversies. ...
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The Effect of a Structured Freshman Year on Latino Student Success at a Hispanic Serving Institution (2015-05-12)The purpose of this study is to provide an analysis of the Academic Development Program (ADP) and its effect on persistence and graduation of Latino students at a four-year Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) located in ...
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(2011-10-21)Because bilingual programs provide a secure environment likely to promote school belonging, it was hypothesized that Hispanic students in a bilingual program would experience higher belonging than those in regular education ...
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(2012-10-19)This dissertation privileges Chican@ rhetorics in order to challenge a single History of Rhetoric, as well as to challenge Chican@s to formulate our rhetorical practices through our own epistemologies. Chapter One works ...
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(2022-07-19)Scholars, politicians, and pundits have repeatedly described new Americans, mostly Asian Americans and Latinos, as a “Sleeping Giant” to emphasize their potential as the decisive voter who shuffles up traditional U.S. party ...
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(2021-11-03)The essay that follows explores how the institution of education bred social hierarchy, access to citizenship, and engineered generations-long racism through a case study in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. Using Molina’s ...
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(2023-08-08)Though Latinx populations in the United States continue to grow, the current gap in the literature concerning these communities perpetuates inequities that lead to prejudice, discrimination, and harmful legislation, resulting ...
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(2015-12-10)Based within the cultural psychological perspective, this study will analyze how racial/ethnic identity and the degree of stereotypicality in Hispanic-themed cultural products affect Latino’s attitudes towards immigration ...
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(2016-05-31)Latino immigrant college students, especially those with undocumented status, tend to experience increased number and levels of risk factors related to physical health, academic, and mental health outcomes yet have better ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)A convenience sample of 123 Hispanic/Latino students from a predominantly Hispanic/Latino South Texas community college was used to determine if gender and/or journal-writing had any effects on mathematics anxiety or ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)Cultural competence, mandated by Federal law since 1964, has not been appropriately addressed due to its lack of specifics and the lack of specifics within subsequent mandates. This study was designed to determine specific ...
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(2009-05-15)The history of the United States is one of racial division and conquest. People of color have employed every method of resistance available to them to defend themselves against white racist aggression. Large political ...
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(2016-05-04)Sustained academic growth of the Mexican population in the public schools of the Rio Grande Valley of Texas has precipitated a need for new and innovative ways to effectively educate English Language Learners (ELLs). In ...
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(2012-02-14)The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate perceptions and experiences of four Latino male students who obtained their high school diploma despite considerable adversity. An in-depth examination of the ...