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Charles, Jenneil – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2021
Using Bronfenbrenner's Social Ecological Model, this systematic critical literature review investigated factors that contributed to the development of colorism, as well as the effects of colorism on Afro-Latinx persons, in Brazil, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, and the wider Latin American region. Agencies within the macrosystem and chronosystem were…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Ethnicity, Blacks, Latin Americans
O'Mara, Joan – 1990
The importance and varieties of human touch have been the subject of much research. Touching varies from culture to culture and is a way of talking in most Latin American countries. Three Puerto Rican novels provide examples of this nonverbal communicative style: "Mambru se fue a la guerra," by Jose Luis Gonzalez; "La vispera del…
Descriptors: Characterization, Communication Research, Latin American Literature, Literary Styles