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(No) State Interests In Regulating Gender: How Suppression Of Gender Nonconformity Violates Freedom Of Speech, Jeffrey Kosbie 2013 William & Mary Law School

(No) State Interests In Regulating Gender: How Suppression Of Gender Nonconformity Violates Freedom Of Speech, Jeffrey Kosbie

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

Despite limited growth in legal protections for transgender people, dress and appearance are largely treated as unprotected matters of personal preference. In response, lawyers and scholars argue that dress and appearance are intimately connected to the expression of identity. Nonetheless, courts have generally deferred to the government’s proffered justifications for these laws.

This article refocuses on the government’s alleged interests in regulating gender nonconformity. Using a First Amendment analysis, the article reveals how seemingly neutral government interests are used to single out conduct because it expresses messages of gender nonconformity. This approach avoids impossible questions about the subjective intent of …


Exposure To Verbal Parental Aggression And Sexual Activity Among Low Income African American Youth, Dexter R. Voisin 2013 Case Western Reserve University

Exposure To Verbal Parental Aggression And Sexual Activity Among Low Income African American Youth, Dexter R. Voisin

Faculty Scholarship

The study examined whether witnessing verbal parental aggression (VPA) was related to sexual activity among mostly low income African American youth, and whether psychological symptoms mediated this relationship. Five hundred and sixty-three African American high school adolescents (ages 13-19) completed self-administered questionnaires, which assessed demographics, psychological problems (e.g., depression, anxiety, aggression and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms), witnessing VPA, and sexual activity. Participants who witnessed high versus no VPA were 2 times more likely to report sexual activity. This relationship was mediated by aggression for males and females, and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms for females only. Youth service providers should be …


Contributors, Tiffany Lopez 2013 University of California - Riverside

Contributors, Tiffany Lopez

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Whose Latino/A Studies? Teaching Latinidad As A Güero On A Predominantly Anglo, Socially Conservative Campus, Justin Garcia 2013 Millersville University of Pennsylvania

Whose Latino/A Studies? Teaching Latinidad As A Güero On A Predominantly Anglo, Socially Conservative Campus, Justin Garcia

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Towards Implementing Culturally Relevant Curriculum: How 17 Words Inspired Research, Dagoberto Eli Ramirez 2013 San Jose State University

Towards Implementing Culturally Relevant Curriculum: How 17 Words Inspired Research, Dagoberto Eli Ramirez

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Community-Based Projects And The Performing And Visual Arts: Promoting Cultural Dialogue, Elena de Costa 2013 Carroll University

Community-Based Projects And The Performing And Visual Arts: Promoting Cultural Dialogue, Elena De Costa

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Pedagogical Conocimientos: Self And Other In Interaction, Josephine Mendez-Negrete 2013 University of Texas at San Antonio

Pedagogical Conocimientos: Self And Other In Interaction, Josephine Mendez-Negrete

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Juntos Podemos: Devising Theater As Community-Based Pedagogy, Roxanne Schroeder-Arce 2013 University of Texas at Austin

Juntos Podemos: Devising Theater As Community-Based Pedagogy, Roxanne Schroeder-Arce

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Polite Shakespeare Only: Teaching Chican@ Texts And The Tempest In Texas After The Attempts To Dismantle Mexican American Studies Programs, Britt Harraway 2013 University of Texas - Pan American

Polite Shakespeare Only: Teaching Chican@ Texts And The Tempest In Texas After The Attempts To Dismantle Mexican American Studies Programs, Britt Harraway

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Five Strands - Poem, Marianita Escamilla 2013 University of Texas - Pan American

Five Strands - Poem, Marianita Escamilla

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Subverting The Telenovela: Redefining Gender In Cisneros’S “Woman Hollering Creek” And Islas’S "The Rain God", Marina Malli 2013 University of Texas - Pan American

Subverting The Telenovela: Redefining Gender In Cisneros’S “Woman Hollering Creek” And Islas’S "The Rain God", Marina Malli

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.


¡Viva La Vida!, Javier Villarreal 2013 Texas A & M University - Corpus Christi

¡Viva La Vida!, Javier Villarreal

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

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Américo Paredes And His Audiences, Lyon Rauthbun 2013 University of Texas at Brownsville

Américo Paredes And His Audiences, Lyon Rauthbun

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Play Selection In The Department Of Speech And Drama At Pan American University In The 1970s And 1980s: Twenty Years Of Excluding Latino Plays, Eric Wiley 2013 University of Texas - Pan American

Play Selection In The Department Of Speech And Drama At Pan American University In The 1970s And 1980s: Twenty Years Of Excluding Latino Plays, Eric Wiley

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.


“How To Tame A Wild Tongue”: Gloria Anzaldúa’S Borderlands/La Frontera And The 1960s Era Speech Test And Speech Classes At Pan American College, Deborah Cole, Rob Johnson 2013 University of Texas - Pan American

“How To Tame A Wild Tongue”: Gloria Anzaldúa’S Borderlands/La Frontera And The 1960s Era Speech Test And Speech Classes At Pan American College, Deborah Cole, Rob Johnson

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Over Both Edges: Coyotaje, Militarization And Liminality In Everyday Life On Ranchos Along The South Texas-Mexican Border, Lupe Flores 2013 University of Texas - Pan American

Over Both Edges: Coyotaje, Militarization And Liminality In Everyday Life On Ranchos Along The South Texas-Mexican Border, Lupe Flores

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Older Mexican Americans’ Perceptions Of Mental Distress, Iran Barrera, John Gonzalez 2013 California State University - Fresno

Older Mexican Americans’ Perceptions Of Mental Distress, Iran Barrera, John Gonzalez

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Women’S Grassroots Revitalization Of South El Paso: La Mujer Obrera’S Challenge To Gentrification And Urban Neglect, Joel Zapata 2013 Southern Methodist University

Women’S Grassroots Revitalization Of South El Paso: La Mujer Obrera’S Challenge To Gentrification And Urban Neglect, Joel Zapata

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Introduction, Tiffany Lopez 2013 University of California - Riverside

Introduction, Tiffany Lopez

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

No abstract provided.


Forward, Sonia Hernandez, Marci McMahon 2013 University of Texas at Pan American

Forward, Sonia Hernandez, Marci Mcmahon

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

This special issue of Río Bravo: A Journal of the Borderlands highlights a series of essays and creative work presented at the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Tejas Foco conference at the University of Texas, Pan American in the Río Grande Valley in South Texas in February 2013. We are excited by the quality of the essays in this special issue, and we encourage scholars and activists in the Chicana/o and Latina/o studies community to engage with the scholarship and creative work in this volume. A print copy will be available sometime this August. The Mexican American …


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