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

    Creator:
    Lerma, Zandro E.
    Abstract:
    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

  • Doing time : papers from Framingham prison

    Creator:
    Power, Katherine A.
    Abstract:
    This thesis is an arrangement of essays, poems, and journal entries expressing and exploring experiences from the author's six years in a medium security women's prison. They are collected around the themes of longing and grief, of despair, of survival, of joy, and of the complexity of homecoming.
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    Prison by Katherine A. Power A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of

  • Leadership and Loyalty Revisited : Catholic Latinas and Leadership

    Creator:
    Morales-Warming, Melissa
    Abstract:
    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