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Creator:: Hansen, Tobin M.
Abstract:: What historical and political reality is reflected in the novels Gringo viejo and La frontera de cristal? What is revealed when the characters, plot, and setting of the novels are analyzed against research of the context of U.S.-Mexico relations? We begin to explore these questions by studying three periods crucial...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: .-Mexico social context particularly because Carlos Fuentes, the author, develops both Anglo and Mexican

Creator:: Crocker, Melissa R.
Abstract:: In the contemporary United States, the process of "coming out of the closet," or public disclosure of one's non-normative sexual orientation or gender identity, is ongoing and performative. Particularly within the context of dominant contemporary U.S. society, popular media favors a hegemonic set of defining characteristics, which thereby forces the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: members, Dr. Qwo-Li Driskill and Dr. Juan Antonio Trujillo, thank you for your knowledge and support

Creator:: Bird, Kristin E.
Abstract:: This thesis discusses both theoretical and practical considerations inherent in conducting community-based research within a case study of sea turtle conservation in Baja California, Mexico. A brief background, including the general ecology, status and distribution of sea turtles of the Baja peninsula is presented, with an overview of the current...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Carlos, Baja California Sur, particularly Pam Kyistra and Rodrigo Rangel, as well as the WiLDCOAST

Creator:: Nicklous, Nan Gilmore
Abstract:: Changing demographics in Oregon, accompanied by a rising Latino population, serve to dispel myths that we live in homogeneous, monolithic communities. Migration studies indicate migration is reshaping communities, contributing to ethnic diversity thus challenging our notion of identity and culture. Through the medium of oral histories and ethnography, this study...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: about Mexican culture, novelist Carlos Fuentes (1988:93) wrote about his homeland to assure himself

Creator:: Smith, William Hoyt
Abstract:: The importance of language and bilinguality in the development, perpetuation, and "degeneration" or change of culture is a central theme throughout this treatise. Original pictorial representations of Mayan hieroglyphic sculpture are included as examples, and represent artistic styles and language variations of written Cholan and Yucatec. Modern Cholan and Yucatecan...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE DISPLACEMENT Government and Education Policies When Don Antonio de Mendoza arrived in

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