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  • The Yellow House: Stories of Place, Space and Community

    Creator:
    Gann, Tamara S.
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    This thesis is an IRB-exempt oral history focused on the non-profit Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center (CMLC) in Corvallis, Oregon. The CMLC, formerly on 9th Street, was known to many community members as the Yellow House. The Yellow House was a dedicated community-based space where people of all cultures could come...
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    , Organización de Latinas Unidas, Alma Latina and Fiesta Mexicana 4-H Club. The nature of this shared

  • Latinx Adolescent Sexual Health Education: Informing a Culturally Centered and Inclusive Program

    Creator:
    Cervantes, Beathriz
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    Latinx youth in the US experience stark inequities in sexual and reproductive health, including rates of unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. One promising way to reduce these inequities is to provide culturally centered, comprehensive sexual health education. However, such curricula are rarely offered to Latinx youth, in part because...
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    curricula and complementary programs, such as community health worker/ promotor(a) de salud programs, to

  • LGBTQ Latinx Student Activist and Leaders in the State of Oregon: A Preliminary Study

    Creator:
    Zayas, Minerva
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    In 2016, the Oregon Community Foundation reported that twelve percent of Latinx folks graduated with their bachelor’s and/or master’s degree compared to the 31 percent of White counterparts (Latinos in Oregon Report, 2016). While Latinx students continue to be the largest minority in the United States, Latinx students enroll in...
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    study done on Latinx leaders in predominantly White institutions, Lozano found four key themes that

  • Conceiving A Colony: A Multi-Level Biocultural Analysis of the Maternal Stress-Preterm Birth Nexus in Puerto Rico

    Creator:
    Horan, Holly L.
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    This dissertation aims to elicit how a neo-colonial context shapes maternal and infant heath (MIH) outcomes by describing how they are socially, politically, historically, and culturally produced. Using a multi-level critical biocultural, medical anthropological research approach, the purpose of this research was to investigate maternal stress in the United States...
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    …..……………..…………………………………………………….68 References ……...……………………………………………………………….70 Chapter Three: “No te ahoges en un vaso de

  • What says your heart: community, learning, and education in a Nahua indigenous village

    Creator:
    Anderson, Jessica
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    The purpose of this thesis is to understand the experiences that Nahua children, in rural Mexico, have as they attend schools that are primarily influenced by formal Western education in relation to their own ways of learning and knowing. This research took place over the course of three months within...
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    fertilizers, and pesticides in order to produce higher yields (Gonzalez 2010). However, the result was that

  • Current Use of Dietary Guidelines in Private Clinical Nutrition Practice and its Impacts on the Dietary Patterns of Office Workers in Mexico City

    Creator:
    Grabinsky, Lisa
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    For the last 30 years, the population of Mexico has grappled with overweight, obesity, and associated chronic diseases, such as type-2 diabetes and hypertension. To standardize care among healthcare providers and dietitians, an official nutritional guideline was published in the early 2000s, which included a non-modifiable food-based dietary guideline in...
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    must comply with and use in their consultations, workshops, talks, etc. (Secretaría de Salud 2013

  • The Internet Usage Habits of Young Women with ADHD : Insights and Implications

    Creator:
    Dakessian, Drew R.
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    Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the most common childhood neurological disorder in the United States, also affects grown women. But girls with ADHD, who tend towards symptoms of inattentiveness, often go undiagnosed until young adulthood. This is because (a) their symptoms are less obvious than the hyperactivity common in ADHD boys, and...
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    ...................................................................................................... 1 1. INTRODUCTION “Some women write themselves free.” — Patricia Hill Collins The passage

  • The Feminist Itinerant School: A Feminist Pedagogical Approach to Curriculum Transformation for Public School Teachers in Brazil

    Creator:
    Melchor, Carolina R.
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    This Thesis examines Brazil’s political and historical context to explore and understand the logics behind the high rates of violence in our society. It focuses in education as one of our main vehicles of disseminating knowledge and therefore culture, language and values that might be contributing and perpetuating sexism, racism,...
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    Coronel Alberto Brilhante Ustra, the man who commanded the Doi-Codi -Departmento de Operações de

  • Analysis of Culturally Derived Speleothems by INAA and ICP-MS, a Multi-Analytical Approach

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    Nation, Humberto E.
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    Over the last two decades, archaeologists have documented the widespread ancient Maya practice of collecting cave formations (speleothems) from ritually important caves and transporting them to their settlements. Little is known about their specific uses within settlements, but it is hypothesized that these objects convey a degree of sanctity from...
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    . Holley Moyes, Dr. Patricia McAnany and Dr. Polly Peterson for providing the samples for this study as

  • Curandera feminism : tracing the possibilities of healing institutional harm

    Creator:
    Buzo Tipton, Carina M.
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    This dissertation develops a framework for Curandera feminism, informed by familial healing practices, women of color feminisms, and institutional critique. My research centers my family’s generational Curandera practices. As I honor the call to be critical of the master’s tools, I seek possibilities for institutional change through Curandera feminism. Institutions...
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    de/segregation in elementary school, and they experienced racial violence at the hands of white