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Defendiendo Mi Identidad: Construyendo Las Identidades De Estudiantes Latinos De Trinity College, Karina Torres
Defendiendo Mi Identidad: Construyendo Las Identidades De Estudiantes Latinos De Trinity College, Karina Torres
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For many years, the United States has been known as the great “melting pot” with a mixture of people representing different races and ethnicities that have come together to form one nation and one American identity. The American educational system has attempted to facilitate the creation of one national identity through the process of assimilation and through its insistence that its citizens leave behind their other racial and ethnic identities. As part of this thesis, I investigate the ways in which culture, families, schools and society have shaped the identities of fifteen Latino students at Trinity. Identity theorists have spoken …
Still `Unfinished Education:' Latino Students Forty Years After The Mexican American Education Study, Lizely Gonzalez
Still `Unfinished Education:' Latino Students Forty Years After The Mexican American Education Study, Lizely Gonzalez
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The onus of this dissertation was to evaluate the educational conditions of Mexican American students forty years after the Mexican American Education Study published a six-volume study detailing the findings of the Mexican American Education Study (1970-1974). The MAES study focused on five southwest states Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. To learn the current status of Mexican American students, a three-tier scale of analysis was created. Each level of analysis had a specific focus: macro, meso, and micro. The macro level presented a descriptive analysis of the educational status of Mexican American students in the five states presented …