Browsing by Department "Mexican American Studies"
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The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the U.S. Mexico Border: Text and Map Analysis Assignment
(2019-08-21)This assignment helps students think critically about the geographical and political definition of the U.S.-Mexico boundary and its effect on people living in the borderlands through the analysis of the 1848 Treaty of ... -
Agüite y lucha : socio-emotional implications of U.S. immigration policy for undocumented Latinx/as in graduate school
(2018-05-04)This study focuses on the stressors and coping mechanisms that undocumented Latinx/as adopt in their graduate studies. Seven semi-structured interviews were conducted with Latinx/as in graduate programs in the West Coast, ... -
Anti-Mexican Violence, Race, and the Myth of Color-Blindness
(2021)Race and color-blindness have been examined in Mexican American and Latina/o Studies scholarship to explain the United States’ use of power through white supremacy to enact anti-Mexican violence. Anglo Americans have ... -
Are American communities becoming more secure? : evaluating the secure communities program
(2012-08)This thesis examines the federal government’s progression in implementing the Secure Communities program. The Secure Communities program was initiated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2008 as a pilot program ... -
Are there any machos in the house? : contemporary manifestations of machismo
(2017-05)This research explores the transnational existence of machismo and its continuous presence among Mexican and Mexican American men as transnational ideologies and attitudes from Mexico into the United States. This mixed ... -
Complicating the Narrative of Hispanic Migration Through a Healthcare Lens
(2023-05)Hispanic migration and the southern border that concerns it pervade the political sphere as a point of controversy. Spurred on by recent presidential races, the narrative of Hispanic migrants and their role in the country ... -
Developing a hauntology of Latinidad
(2018-05)In this thesis I utilize theories of phenomenology and performance to develop a hauntology of Latinidad. By following the specter of Latinidad, I interrogate imaginative sites constructed through the historical, social, ... -
The Dynamic of Mexican Nationalism by Frederick C. Turner
(The Journal of Politics, 1969) -
El monstruo en “Monstro”: Una perspectiva neobarroca
(Label Me Latina/o, 2017-09-23) -
Fictionalizing Juárez : feminicide, violence, and myth-making in the borderlands
(2014-05)In the early 1990s, a series of gruesome murders of young women in Ciudad Juárez, a city located in the U.S.-Mexico border, shook the political landscape of Mexico. A decade later, the strange and violent murders, known ... -
Guatemalan unaccompanied children migration : a case study of unaccompanied children in guatemala
(2016-05)This thesis examines the motives and conditions of migration of Guatemalan unaccompanied children through a case study. Unaccompanied children have been arriving in large numbers than in the past. According to the Department ... -
Indigeneity and mestizaje in Luis Alberto Urrea's The Hummingbird's Daughter and Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead
(2014-05)In an attempt to narrow a perceived gap between two literary fields, this thesis provides a comparative analysis of Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Humminbird’s Daughter, and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead. I explore ... -
Juárez-Lincoln University : alternative higher education in the Chicana/o Movement, 1969-1983
(2013-12)This thesis project centers on the use of pedagogy and education as forms of social protest during the Chicana/o Movement. Following Chicana/o Movement historiography, this project seeks to explore and explain the events ... -
The K-12 educational experiences and identity formation of Na’ Ñuu Davi in Washington State
(2015-05)In this project, I look at how individuals of Ñuu Davi background came to an understanding of their social position while in the United States' K-12 educational pipeline and how it contributed to their life goals (academically ... -
King Kong in the Bronx
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Latina/o representation on teen-oriented television : marketing to a new kind of family
(2013-12)The ABC Family cable network has become a leader in television for the millennial audience through a strategy of increased diversity on screen and an emphasis on complexity in family life. These goals have both been aided ... -
Latinx political empowerment in Chicago during the Trump era : an analysis of interviews from Latinx elected officials
(2020-05-05)As the Latinx population grows and Latinxs are gaining political representation at every level of government in Chicago and throughout the state of Illinois there must be an analysis to assess if representation is translating ... -
Let’s talk about el lenguaje : an examination of code-switching in Latino films, YouTube, and radio
(2019-05-08)The goal of this thesis is to examine and compare the code-switching (CS) used in three Pantelion films set in Los Angeles (LA) to CS used in an LA YouTube video blogger and LA Radio. CS has been identified as a prominent ... -
Mexican-American college women and their perceptions on sexuality in the U.S.
(2012-05)Discussion between Mexican migrant mothers and Mexican-American daughters in the United States and their changing perceptions of sexuality were studied. Literature review is presented to give the reader insight into the ...