Latino/A Studies

“Review of Latino Migrants in a Jewish State by Barak Kalir.”

by Sarah Willen

Willen, Sarah S. Forthcoming 2012. “Review of Latino Migrants in a Jewish State by Barak Kalir.” Review of Middle East Studies. 46(1).

Estudio sobre el Comportamiento y Salud en los Jóvenes Escolares de la República Dominicana: Resultados de 2009

by Elián Cabrera-Nguyen

Co-authored with Dr. Juan B. Peña, Rosa Fernández, and Diana Chaves.

This scientific report on youth risk behaviors was prepared for the Dominican Republic's Ministry of Education.more This scientific report on youth risk behaviors was prepared for the Dominican Republic's Ministry of Education.

We administered a modified YRBS to a nationally representative sample of public high school youth in the Dominican Republic. The survey asked about mental health, sexual risk behaviors, substance use, and violent behavior. Findings are presented at the national level and for each educational district. I analyzed all data and assisted with preparing the report. I also helped present the results to a delegation from the DR's Ministry of Education.

Dr. Juan B. Peña, assistant professor at the Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis, is the prinicpal investigator and first author. The remaining authors are presented alphabetically; contribution is equal: Elián P. Cabrera-Nguyen, Diana Chaves, and Rosa Fernández

Borderzones of Enforcement: Criminalization, Workplace Raids, and Migrant Counterconducts

by Jonathan Xavier Inda

US cultural involvement and its association with suicidal behavior among youth in the Dominican Republic

by Elián Cabrera-Nguyen

published in American Journal of Public Health:

Peña, J.B., Zayas L.H., Cabrera-Nguyen, P., & Vega W.A. (2011). US cultural involvement and its association with suicidal behavior among youths in the Dominican Republic. American Journal of Public Health. e-View Ahead of Print. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300344

Refer to link to access the article. APHA is copyright holder.

Access to Health Care for Latinos in Massachusetts: Findings and Policy Implications

by Gonzalo Bacigalupe

The Mauricio Gaston Institute, Winter, 2001

Did you call in Mexican? The racial politics of Jay Leno immigrant jokes. (2007) Language in Society, 38(1), 23–45.

by Otto Santa Ana

This article analyzes a set of anti-immigrant jokes with which Jay Leno entertained his national television audience... more This article analyzes a set of anti-immigrant jokes with which Jay Leno entertained his national television audience in 2006, when the U.S. public was focused on unprecedented demonstrations urging justice for immigrants. Leno adroitly mocks immigrants and their cause to give his audience emotional release by distancing them from immigrants. It is argued that political comedy can be an insidious discursive practice that reduces its audience’s critical judgment as it signifies social boundaries. It should be carefully scrutinized because, with a few laughs, Leno can steer sentiment about public policy and instantiate divisiveness for an audience of 6 million who, in the words of Leno’s official website, “are drifting off to dreamland.”

Keywords: Humor, political comedy, late-night television, immigrant rights marches.

"Juan in a Hundred: the Faces and Stories of Latinos on the Evening News"

by Otto Santa Ana

This is the prospectus of my completed book-length manuscript on television network news imaging of Latinos. It is forthcoming. University of Texas Press will release it in late 2012.

"Juan in a 100" is a set of 3 studies designed in concentric circles to home in on the character and... more "Juan in a 100" is a set of 3 studies designed in concentric circles to home in on the character and consequence of network evening news reporting on the nation’s fastest growing and largest ethnic-minority group. In spite of recent inroads, the network evening news programs remain the nation's most important and authoritative daily accounting of America's unfolding reality. Thus remains important to study this vital source of information about Latinos.

I first study the distribution of news stories topics, comparing the total 12,000 individual stories that four networks broadcast in 2004 to the subset of those stories (totaling 118) that pertain to Latinos. The fact that less than one-percent of network news stories deal with Latinos as subjects of the story, led to the word-play of the book title. The 1:100 ratio and topic distribution has not changed in the past 15 years. Because there is no discernable change in the network patterns, a study of the 2004 broadcast year will remain relevant in the foreseeable future.

The second study focuses on content. I select 46 stories that encompass the range of news types (from briefs to features) as well as the major Latino news topics that the networks offer viewers. I conduct deep semiotic readings on each of them to provide an in-depth examination of the content of network news about Latinos that are broadcast to the American viewing public. The breadth and depth of this second study allow me to illustrate the techniques that the networks use to render their authoritative portrait of today's Latinos. The picture is not pretty. It is incomplete and often flawed.

In the final study, I move from description to explanation. I map out an explicit procedure by which news consumers build their understandings out of the multimodal stimuli of television news stories. This poses two challenges: how to incorporate into one interpretive framework different modes of lower-order semiotic sign (visual, non-spoken audio, graphic, spoken, etc.), as well as dealing with higher-order semantics. For the first challenge, I start with recent cognitive science scholarship (Lakoff, Fauconnier). To deal with the second, I enlist the aid of venerable humanist theories (Foucault, Calvin McGee, Barthes, Hayden White, Northrup Frye) that offer insight into the nature of complex higher-order meanings. I exemplify my model with immigration news stories that I described in earlier chapters. Thus I combine humanist theory and cognitive science to explain how American news viewers can construct their (albeit limited) understanding of Latinos from the news stories they watch.

Latin@ Sobrevivientes De Abuso Sexual Infantil En Los Estados Unidos: Un Acercamiento Relacionai Al Diagnóstico E Intervención Latin@ Child Sexual Abuse …

by Gonzalo Bacigalupe

BELLEZA, FEALDAD Y OTREDAD: LA CONSTRUCCIÓN TELEVISIVA DE LA POBLACION MIGRANTE MEXICANA EN E.U. A TRAVÉS DE UGLY BETTY.

by Sandra Murillo

Tesis de Maestría

Nuestra investigación propone un estudio socio-cultural de la serie de televisión estadounidense Ugly Betty la cual se... more Nuestra investigación propone un estudio socio-cultural de la serie de televisión estadounidense Ugly Betty la cual se presenta como trabajo para tesis en la maestría en estudios socioculturales en El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. El objeto de estudio de la investigación es el discurso sobre el migrante mexicano que se pone en marcha a través de esta serie. Nuestro objetivo es analizar que estrategias y estructuras narrativas se utilizan para construir una identidad migrante latino/mexicano a través del uso de un personaje como Betty Suárez y de esta forma problematizar como se reformula el concepto de fealdad en la construcción de un discurso identitario sobre la población migrante latino/mexicana. Ugly Betty presenta modificaciones a nivel estructural y de contenido que la hacen distinta de su versión original y de sus otras versiones. Estas modificaciones suponen un nuevo recorrido narrativo donde se plantea una transformación de nivel social y cultural, donde el uso del personaje de Betty y de su lugar de trabajo se construye como un espacio social de alteridad presentándonos dos tipos de lucha de pertenencia: (i) la primera se da ante un grupo que se enmarca como estéticamente bello y; (ii) la segunda se da buscando la unión a un proyecto multicultural de integración social. Betty se nos presenta como un personaje que construye su propia estética través de un nuevo recorrido narrativo donde el concepto de fealdad se ve atravesado por un nuevo estereotipo de migrante.




ABSTRACT
Our researches try to know how television makes a discourse of the migrant or latino population through the soap opera Ugly Betty. These make an identity represented by the characters and the story with which the audience can indentify. This soap presents us the story about Betty Suárez. Betty it a second generation migrant girl and this is considered, in their work area (office) ugly. Ugly Betty, through the television, presents an idea (or images) of a Mexican migrant or latino population and is relevant because the television build a discourse about the social, economic, politics, and cultural relations between México and United States. This new time line presents us, how the concept of difference is represented in this performance. These changes bring us a new narrative trajectory which show us a transformation of social and cultural level, where the use of Betty's character and his place of work is constructed as a social space of otherness in where Betty fight for two types of membership: (i) the first is given to a group that is part and aesthetically beautiful and, (ii) the second is given to the union seeking a multicultural project of social integration. Betty is presented as a character who builds his own aesthetic through a new narrative in which the concept of ugliness is crossed by a new stereotype of the migrant latino.

America's Future: Latino Child Well-Being in Numbers and Trends

by Patricia Foxen

Cara y corazón: Raices religiosas en un mexicoamericano

by Gilberto Cavazos-González, OFM

My first published article as it appeared in Critica (Enero 2003) Una revista hecha por mujeres… pero no “para la mujer”

A reflection on my experience of growing up Mexican-American in South Texas. It also reflects my first musings on the... more A reflection on my experience of growing up Mexican-American in South Texas. It also reflects my first musings on the Mesoamerican biphrasism "cara y corazón" as symbolic of culture and spirituality,

Barriers to Health Care Encountered by Hispanics: A Case Study Using the Immunization Division of the Texas Department of Health and the Clinics of the Austin-Travis County Health and Human Services Department

by Texas State PA Applied Research Projects

Pena-Brow, Rocio A., "Barriers to Health Care Encountered by Hispanics: A Case Study Using the Immunization Division of the Texas Department of Health and the Clinics of the Austin-Travis County Health and Human Services Department" (1997). Applied Research Projects, Texas State University-San Marcos. Paper 213.
http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/213

Illegal accents: Qualifications, discrimination and distraction in Arizona's monitoring of teachers

by Jennifer Leeman

In O. Santa Ana and C. Bustamante (Eds.) Arizona Firestorm. Rowman & Littlefield. Leeman, J. (To appear). Illegal accents: Qualifications, discrimination and distraction in Arizona's monitoring of teachers. In O. Santa Ana and C. Bustamante (Eds.) Arizona Firestorm. Rowman & Littlefield.

Strategies for Evaluating and Improving Latino Youth Development Programs

by Texas State PA Applied Research Projects

Rendon, Ashley N., "Strategies for Evaluating and Improving Latino Youth Development Programs" (2011). Applied Research Projects, Texas State University-San Marcos. Paper 355.
http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/355

Latino students in the United States are often portrayed in a negative sense: high drop-out rates, low postsecondary... more Latino students in the United States are often portrayed in a negative sense: high drop-out rates, low postsecondary education rates, and high crime rates, to name a few. Youth development programs give Latino students an opportunity to build their strengths and leadership skills to give them the motivation they need to overcome such obstacles in their lives. The purpose of this Applied Research Project is threefold. First, it describes the model of a Latino Youth Development Program through a review of literature. Next, it assesses the National Hispanic Institute's Great Debate program using practical ideal type components. Finally, the project provides recommendations based on data collected using focused interviews. Research on literature pertaining to positive youth development programs shows three major components of what programs should offer to students. The practical ideal model of a Latino youth development program includes providing a sound program structure, individual development for the student, and adult interaction. Results show that the National Hispanic Institute (NHI) provides students with a sound program structure. NHI also provides students with many opportunities to collaborate with the organization as creators of activities and curriculum for the young leaders program, which in turn seems to strengthen their resiliency and leadership abilities. Based on the model, NHI is in need of improvement in the area of adult interaction. Although there are many opportunities to lead within the organization, students are not given adequate time with their parents, with adult mentors, or even with adults in their communities.

A New Vision for Latino/ a Education: A Comparative Perspective on Research Agendas

by Lorri J. Santamaría

Mercado, C. & Santamaría, L. J. (2005). A comparative perspective on educational research for Latinos: problems and possibilities. In P. Pedrazo & M. Rivera (Eds.) Latino Education: An Agenda for Community Action Research. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates, Publishers, pp 11-43.

Latino migrants in the Jewish state

by Barak Kalir

Shifting the Site of Queer Enunciation: Manuel Muñoz and the Politics of Form

by Ernesto Martinez

Latino Racial Choices: the Effects of Skin Colour and Discrimination on Latinos' and Latinas' Racial Self-Identifications

by Tanya Golash-Boza

Assessing the Advantages of Bilingualism for the Children of Immigrants1

by Tanya Golash-Boza

Dropping the Hyphen-Becoming Latino (a)-American Through Racialized Assimilation

by Tanya Golash-Boza