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

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    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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    : ___________________________________________________________ Jose-Antonio Orosco Abstract In this thesis, I

  • Rural Latinas/os of the Pacific Northwest: College and the Experience of Self- Identification

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    Zaragoza, Mariana C.
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    There is an ever growing number of Latinas/os who reside and have settled permanently in rural America. Unbeknownst to most, rural Latinas/os face adversities unfamiliar to those living outside of this scope. As it stands, the barriers urban Latinas/os students face when transitioning to college has been well documented. However,...
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    Juana 56 Jose 57 Coding Process 58 Common Themes 58 Theme One: "Othering" 59 Theme Two

  • Exploring Latinx Transfer Students' Experiences at a 4-Year University

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    Rodriguez, Eduardo B.
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    The number of Latinx students enrolling in higher education has grown significantly over the past two decades (Jabbar et al., 2019). This study explores a portion of that population by focusing on the experiences of Latinx transfer students at a 4-year institution within the Pacific Northwest of the United States....
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    (Perez & Ceja, 2010). Community colleges enroll roughly 51% of Latinx students across the United States

  • Contrastive Analysis in Second-Language Teaching : Spanish Suprasegmentals

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    Hart, Dianne Walta, 1939-
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    Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this exploratory study is to find an accepted methodology for teaching second-language suprasegrnentals by investigating the question of whether or not the use of contrastive analysis is superior to another method that does not use contrastive analysis. Specifically, the comparison of methods is...
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  • 'Mejor Amancebada que Mal Casada' : Rhetoric and Practice of Amancebamiento in Seventeenth-Century New Spain

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    Hisey, Aimee
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    Following a history of tensions surrounding concubinage in medieval and early modern Spain, the Church sought greater control of religious life, particularly over the sacrament of marriage, via the Holy Office of the Inquisition. The Church exercised its strengthened restrictions and prosecuted these relationships with more frequency, as did civil...
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    sexuality as well as that of females.18 Maria Teresa Arias Bautista focuses on amancebamiento in the

  • An ethnographic crossing : voices from the Latino community in Yamhill County, Oregon

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    Nicklous, Nan Gilmore
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    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...
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    social interactions in the Latino community, providing an underlying base of reciprocity (Alvarez 1987

  • NAFTA and Chiapas : problems and solutions

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    Veit, Steven J.
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    On New Year's Eve 1993, there was little indication that popular President Carlos Salinas de Gortari was about to take a monumental fall. Mexico was in the midst of unprecedented prosperity. The world's oldest ruling political party, Mexico's PRI, enjoyed substantial support. Allegations of corruption within an authoritarian regime were...
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  • Devil Dog Diplomacy and the abandonment of military tradition : United States Foreign Policy in Central America and the Caribbean, 1915-1934

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    Geissler, Eric L.
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    During the U.S. military interventions in Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti between 1915 and 1934, Washington equipped members of the its armed forces with civil and political powers that represented a radical departure from the North American military tradition. This abandonment of tradition decisively contributed to both the disappointments...
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    initiated by those in uniform, for as Jose Nun reminds contemporary observers, "all classes have courted

  • Rosa Gonzalez Gomez : a Mexican woman's story

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    Browning, Richard L.
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    Using an oral history method, the author has recorded the life history of Rosa González Gómez, a Mexican woman who spends part of each year in the United States and part in Mexico. Comparing the story of Rosa's life, as told in her own words, with literature in the social...
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    . Women's Oral 14Lawrence C. Watson and Maria-Barbara Watson-Franke, Interpreting Life Histories (New

  • "The Grind" : MTV and female body image

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    Layport, Jill E.
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    This research addresses the relationship between television programming and body image. It specifically investigates what the Music Television network's (MTV) dance show, "The Grind," communicates about female body image. Two studies were conducted. Study one used seven coders from a western United States high school to record female body images...
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