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Latinx Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Students & the College Assistance Migrant Program: Stories of Strength, Persistence, and Success

Creator:

Hernandez Silva, Lesley

Abstract:

According to the U.S. Census Bureau (2017), Latinx people are the fastest growing ethnic group in the nation but are least likely to enroll in institutions of higher education and fewer eventually earn a degree even if enrolled. Enrollment rates for Latinx students with migrant and seasonal farmworker (MSFW) background...

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Masters Thesis

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challenging me in ways that helped guide this thesis for the better. Dr. Janet Nishihara, thank you for the
Making & finding childhoods : forest schooling in the Pacific Northwest

Creator:

Bustamante, Stephanie

Abstract:

East School is a private, forest schooling program in the Pacific Northwest. This ethnography focuses on student engagement with teacher led efforts to "educate" them within an emergent social system depending on new subjectivities. I ground this premise in a reflexive analytical framework, unpacking an implicit ethnotheory of perception as...

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Masters Thesis
In Search of the Carnivalesque: An Investigation of Carnival in Santiago de Cuba

Creator:

Nichol, Melanie

Abstract:

Carnival celebrations in Santiago de Cuba transform large swaths of the city for an anticipated week of festivities, during which Afro-Cuban dancers and musicians are center stage, performing a complicated statement of prescribed cultural ideology, historic acts of agency, and nationalism. A particularly revealing celebration, carnival can be understood as...

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Masters Thesis