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de los Ríos, Cati V.; Molina, Arturo – Journal of Literacy Research, 2020
This article explores how a secondary ethnic studies course leveraged immigrant families' literacies rooted in the Mexican spiritual ritual of Las Posadas for in-school literacy instruction and to engage in community-responsive grassroots processions as social protest. Using ethnographic and participatory design research, the authors--one a…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Mexican Americans, Cultural Influences, Literacy Education
Sanchez Gonzalez, Mayra L.; Castillo, Linda G.; Montague, Marcia L.; Lynch, Patricia S. – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2019
This study investigated the relationship between psychocultural, sociocultural, college knowledge, and citizenship status factors on Latinx high school students' college enrollment. Participants included 307 Latinx ninth-grade students enrolled across four high schools in central Texas that were followed post-high school graduation. Results…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, High School Graduates, Hispanic American Students, College Bound Students
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O'Connor, Brendan H. – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2016
Using discourse analysis, this article explores how Mexican-American students at an Arizona high school exploited intersections of race, gender, and socioeconomic class to position themselves and their peers along a racial continuum from less to more Mexican. Thus, private social distinctions among students both mirrored and transformed publicly…
Descriptors: High School Students, Mexican Americans, Racial Factors, Gender Issues
Hagen Gray, Tricia Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The meatpacking industry has drawn an increasing number of immigrants to the Midwestern community of Washington River from Mexico and Central America, making it a New Latino Diaspora (NLD) receiving community. Demographic change amidst the sociopolitical landscape of neoliberalism, declining civic engagement, and polarized partisan politics has…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Immigrants, Hispanic Americans, Mexican Americans
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Peñalva, Stacy L. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
This ethnographic study aims to foreground the voices of 34 first through twelfth graders who belong to first-generation immigrant families from Mexico and Central America and attend Nueva Vida Church (fictitious name) in a Midwestern US city. They insightfully reflect upon their language, culture and citizenship during Sunday school class focus…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Hispanic Americans, Churches, Ethnography
O'Connor, Brendan Harold – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation is a linguistic ethnography of a high school Astronomy/Oceanography classroom in southern Arizona, where an exceptionally promising, novice, white science teacher and mostly Mexican-American students confronted issues of identity and difference through interactions both related and unrelated to science learning. Through close…
Descriptors: Caring, Racial Identification, Ethnography, Video Technology