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Author: Richard Galvan Publisher: ISBN: Category : Mexican American college students Languages : en Pages : 213
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The purpose of this study was to describe the psychosocial and identity challenges of 3rd generation and beyond U.S.-born (3GAB-USB) Mexican heritage college students. Alvarez (1973) has written about the psychosocial impact "hybridity" can have on a U.S.- born (USB) Mexican individual who incorporates two distinct cultures (American and Mexican) in order to succeed in U.S. society, and yet, few empirical data is available beyond the 1st and 2nd generation on USB Mexican college students. As an example, there is no mention in the literature of two distinct and different worldviews present between immigrant and 3GAB-USB Mexican college students, which would enhance the overall reliability and validity of data when studying Mexican-origin individuals of the United States (Delgado-Romero, Galván, Maschino, & Rowland, 2005; Umaña-Taylor, & Fine, 2004, 2001). Therefore, this study focused on the lived experiences of 3rd generation and beyond U.S.-born Mexican heritage college students utilizing a basic interpretive and descriptive qualitative research design (Merriam & Associates, 2002) in order to: (a) build a picture of the identity elements of the participants by examining the lived experiences they have had from infancy through college; (b) listen to what participants had to say about themselves in relationship to their identity development; (c) see if hybridity had a psychosocial impact on the participants; and (d) explore whether the generalized perceptions from previous research inquiry which commingled the worldview, identity, and lived experience with immigrant Mexican-origin and other Latino college students was valid. In order to disaggregate from an immigrant perspective, the participants were nine 3GAB-USB individuals of Mexican heritage who attend colleges and universities located in three California counties. Themes and categories cultivated from the data were examined and used to create a foundation on which to proceed in future research with the 3GAB-USB Mexican, and other USB ethnic college student populations. The study revealed the perceptions, myths, and stereotypes perpetuated by the media, academia, society, and government policy, are not necessarily the reality of this limited sample population of 3rd generation and beyond U.S.-born Mexican heritage college students.
Author: Richard Galvan Publisher: ISBN: Category : Mexican American college students Languages : en Pages : 213
Book Description
The purpose of this study was to describe the psychosocial and identity challenges of 3rd generation and beyond U.S.-born (3GAB-USB) Mexican heritage college students. Alvarez (1973) has written about the psychosocial impact "hybridity" can have on a U.S.- born (USB) Mexican individual who incorporates two distinct cultures (American and Mexican) in order to succeed in U.S. society, and yet, few empirical data is available beyond the 1st and 2nd generation on USB Mexican college students. As an example, there is no mention in the literature of two distinct and different worldviews present between immigrant and 3GAB-USB Mexican college students, which would enhance the overall reliability and validity of data when studying Mexican-origin individuals of the United States (Delgado-Romero, Galván, Maschino, & Rowland, 2005; Umaña-Taylor, & Fine, 2004, 2001). Therefore, this study focused on the lived experiences of 3rd generation and beyond U.S.-born Mexican heritage college students utilizing a basic interpretive and descriptive qualitative research design (Merriam & Associates, 2002) in order to: (a) build a picture of the identity elements of the participants by examining the lived experiences they have had from infancy through college; (b) listen to what participants had to say about themselves in relationship to their identity development; (c) see if hybridity had a psychosocial impact on the participants; and (d) explore whether the generalized perceptions from previous research inquiry which commingled the worldview, identity, and lived experience with immigrant Mexican-origin and other Latino college students was valid. In order to disaggregate from an immigrant perspective, the participants were nine 3GAB-USB individuals of Mexican heritage who attend colleges and universities located in three California counties. Themes and categories cultivated from the data were examined and used to create a foundation on which to proceed in future research with the 3GAB-USB Mexican, and other USB ethnic college student populations. The study revealed the perceptions, myths, and stereotypes perpetuated by the media, academia, society, and government policy, are not necessarily the reality of this limited sample population of 3rd generation and beyond U.S.-born Mexican heritage college students.
Author: National Research Council Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309164818 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 502
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Hispanics and the Future of America presents details of the complex story of a population that varies in many dimensions, including national origin, immigration status, and generation. The papers in this volume draw on a wide variety of data sources to describe the contours of this population, from the perspectives of history, demography, geography, education, family, employment, economic well-being, health, and political engagement. They provide a rich source of information for researchers, policy makers, and others who want to better understand the fast-growing and diverse population that we call "Hispanic." The current period is a critical one for getting a better understanding of how Hispanics are being shaped by the U.S. experience. This will, in turn, affect the United States and the contours of the Hispanic future remain uncertain. The uncertainties include such issues as whether Hispanics, especially immigrants, improve their educational attainment and fluency in English and thereby improve their economic position; whether growing numbers of foreign-born Hispanics become citizens and achieve empowerment at the ballot box and through elected office; whether impending health problems are successfully averted; and whether Hispanics' geographic dispersal accelerates their spatial and social integration. The papers in this volume provide invaluable information to explore these issues.
Author: Andrew Garrod Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 284
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Amid the flurry of debates about immigration, poverty, and education in the United States, the stories in Mi Voz, Mi Vida allow us to reflect on how young people who might be most affected by the results of these debates actually navigate through American society. The fifteen Latino college students who tell their stories in this book come from a variety of socioeconomic, regional, and family backgrounds-they are young men and women of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Central American, and South American descent. Their insights are both balanced and frank, blending personal, anecdotal, political, and cultural viewpoints. Their engaging stories detail the students' personal struggles with issues such as identity and biculturalism, family dynamics, religion, poverty, stereotypes, and the value of education. Throughout, they provide insights into issues of racial identity in contemporary America among a minority population that is very much in the news. This book gives educators, students, and their families a clear view of the experience of Latino students adapting to a challenging educational environment and a cultural context-Dartmouth College-often very different from their childhood ones.
Author: Patricia C. Gandara Publisher: ISBN: 0674047052 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 428
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Drawing on both extensive demographic data and compelling case studies, this book reveals the depths of the educational crisis looming for Latino students, the nation's largest and most rapidly growing minority group.
Author: Amanda Vásquez Publisher: ISBN: Category : Belonging (Social psychology) Languages : en Pages : 662
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Historically, struggles between Mexico and the United States have created divisions that make some Mexican Americans feel that our Mexican heritage is incompatible with our American residence. Gloria Anzaldúa (1987) used the word Nepantla to describe the feeling of being in between the Mexican and American worlds. Today, Mexican Americans are among the most underrepresented student groups in higher education. Studies examining sense of belonging have identified sense of belonging at institutions of higher education as a factor that can affect student persistence and baccalaureate completion. Therefore, this study questions whether identity, specifically Mexican American identity, may inform sense of belonging. While few studies have brought together the concepts of identity and sense of belonging, this study seeks to synthesize the two ideas and suggest that identity indeed informs sense of belonging. Through phenomenological in-depth interviews, this study highlights the lived experiences of three Mexican American students attending Southwest Border University (a pseudonym), which is a four-year, research, Hispanic-Serving, land grant institution along the U.S.-Mexico border. While this study stops short of finding that identity and sense of belonging affected student persistence or achievement among the participants, the study does find that identity informs sense of belonging, and the study offers implications for practice and suggestions for future research.
Author: National Research Council Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309165075 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 176
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Given current demographic trends, nearly one in five U.S. residents will be of Hispanic origin by 2025. This major demographic shift and its implications for both the United States and the growing Hispanic population make Multiple Origins, Uncertain Destinies a most timely book. This report from the National Research Council describes how Hispanics are transforming the country as they disperse geographically. It considers their roles in schools, in the labor market, in the health care system, and in U.S. politics. The book looks carefully at the diverse populations encompassed by the term "Hispanic," representing immigrants and their children and grandchildren from nearly two dozen Spanish-speaking countries. It describes the trajectory of the younger generations and established residents, and it projects long-term trends in population aging, social disparities, and social mobility that have shaped and will shape the Hispanic experience.
Author: Tomás Roberto Jiménez Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520261410 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 367
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"Without a doubt, Tomas Jimenez has written the single most important contemporary academic study on Mexican American assimilation. Clear-headed, crisply written, and free of ideological bias, Replenished Ethnicity is an extraordinary breakthrough in our understanding of the largest immigrant group in the history of the United States. Bravo!"--Gregory Rodriguez, author of Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America "Tomas Jimenez's Replenished Ethnicity brilliantly navigates between the two opposing perils in the study of Mexican Americans--pessimistically overracializing them or optimistically overassimilating them. This much-needed and gracefully written book illuminates the on-the-ground situations of the later generations of this key American group, insightfully identifying and analyzing the unique factor operating in its case: more or less continuous immigration for more than a century. Jimenez's work provides a landmark for all future studies of Latin American incorporation into U.S. society."--Richard Alba, author of Remaking the American Mainstream "Tomas Jimenez's study adds a much-needed but long absent element to our understanding of how immigration contributes to the construction and reproduction of Mexican American ethnicity even as it continuously evolves. His work provides useful and needed detail that are absent even from the most reliable surveys."--Rodolfo de la Garza, Columbia University "In a masterful piece of social science, Tomas Jimenez debunks allegations about slow social and cultural assimilation of Mexican Americans through a richly textured ethnographic account of Mexican Americans' lived experiences in two communities with distinct immigration experiences. Population replenishment via immigration, he claims, maintains distinctiveness of established Mexican origin generations via infusion of cultural elixir-in varying doses over time and place. Ironically, it is the vast heterogeneity of Mexican Americans-generational depth, socioeconomic, national origin and legal-that both contributes to the population's ethnic uniqueness and yet defies singular theoretical frameworks. Jimenez's page-turner uses the Mexican American ethnic prism to re-interpret the U.S. ethnic tapestry and revise the canonical view of assimilation. Replenished Ethnicity sets a high bar for second generation scholarship about Mexican Americans."--Marta Tienda, The Office of Population Research at Princeton University
Author: Joel Perlmann Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation ISBN: 1610444450 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 202
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According to the American dream, hard work and a good education can lift people from poverty to success in the "land of opportunity." The unskilled immigrants who came to the United States from southern, central, and eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries largely realized that vision. Within a few generations, their descendants rose to the middle class and beyond. But can today's unskilled immigrant arrivals—especially Mexicans, the nation's most numerous immigrant group—expect to achieve the same for their descendants? Social scientists disagree on this question, basing their arguments primarily on how well contemporary arrivals are faring. In Italians Then, Mexicans Now, Joel Perlmann uses the latest immigration data as well as 100 years of historical census data to compare the progress of unskilled immigrants and their American-born children both then and now. The crucial difference between the immigrant experience a hundred years ago and today is that relatively well-paid jobs were plentiful for workers with little education a hundred years ago, while today's immigrants arrive in an increasingly unequal America. Perlmann finds that while this change over time is real, its impact has not been as strong as many scholars have argued. In particular, these changes have not been great enough to force today's Mexican second generation into an inner-city "underclass." Perlmann emphasizes that high school dropout rates among second-generation Mexicans are alarmingly high, and are likely to have a strong impact on the group's well-being. Yet despite their high dropout rates, Mexican Americans earn at least as much as African Americans, and they fare better on social measures such as unwed childbearing and incarceration, which often lead to economic hardship. Perlmann concludes that inter-generational progress, though likely to be slower than it was for the European immigrants a century ago, is a reality, and could be enhanced if policy interventions are taken to boost high school graduation rates for Mexican children. Rich with historical data, Italians Then, Mexicans Now persuasively argues that today's Mexican immigrants are making slow but steady socio-economic progress and may one day reach parity with earlier immigrant groups who moved up into the heart of the American middle class. Copublished with the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
Author: Sonia Hernández Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 147732271X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 323
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Between 1910 and 1920, thousands of Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals were killed along the Texas border. The killers included strangers and neighbors, vigilantes and law enforcement officers—in particular, Texas Rangers. Despite a 1919 investigation of the state-sanctioned violence, no one in authority was ever held responsible. Reverberations of Racial Violence gathers fourteen essays on this dark chapter in American history. Contributors explore the impact of civil rights advocates, such as José Tomás Canales, the sole Mexican-American representative in the Texas State Legislature between 1905 and 1921. The investigation he spearheaded emerges as a historical touchstone, one in which witnesses testified in detail to the extrajudicial killings carried out by state agents. Other chapters situate anti-Mexican racism in the context of the era's rampant and more fully documented violence against African Americans. Contributors also address the roles of women in responding to the violence, as well as the many ways in which the killings have continued to weigh on communities of color in Texas. Taken together, the essays provide an opportunity to move beyond the more standard Black-white paradigm in reflecting on the broad history of American nation-making, the nation’s rampant racial violence, and civil rights activism.
Author: Richard Galvan
Author: Richard Galvan
Author: National Research Council
Author: Andrew Garrod
Author: Danielle D. Staten Lamb
Author: Patricia C. Gandara
Author: Amanda Vásquez
Author: National Research Council
Author: Tomás Roberto Jiménez
Author: Joel Perlmann
Author: Sonia Hernández