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  • Chingasos y Putasos : Examining Cultural and Structural Violence among Mexican American Youth

    Creator:
    Lerma, Zandro E.
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    In this thesis, I examine Johan Galtung’s theory of violence and discuss how his concepts of cultural and structural violence helps explain the problem of direct violence among Mexican American youth. I argue that cultural violence, mainly dominant narratives of colonialism and masculinity, cause some Mexican American youth to act...
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    state, Mexican American youth can become agents of change rather than victims of violence. Going

  • Oppression from Within : AIM, Heteropatriarchy, Settler Colonialism, and the Death of Anna Mae Aquash

    Creator:
    Whitebear-Cupp, Luhui
    Abstract:
    This thesis describes how heteropatriarchal, settler colonialism impacted Indigenous communities' systems in power and control, particularly with the American Indian Movement during the 1960s-1970s. Further, the gendered divides this created within the American Indian Movement are described. The murder of Anna Mae Aquash is revisited as an act of gendered...
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    prominent figure in the American Indian Movement after she immigrated to the United States from Canada and

  • Leadership and Loyalty Revisited : Catholic Latinas and Leadership

    Creator:
    Morales-Warming, Melissa
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    White women’s experiences with major institutions, the church included, often are generalized to other women’s experiences, much like how the experience of men in often represented as the experience of all humankind. In 2001 Elaine Howard Ecklund studied white lay women in the Catholic Church and explored two questions: What...
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    -Americans focus on men and only from an individualistic stance. When Mexican-American women lead, they