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Women have not had an easy access into academia. They have had to struggle and endure barriers and stress. Latinas in academia experience the magnified effects of the professional and personal variables that cause and affect inequalities in career advancement. Stereotypes, assum…

A large proportion of older adult Latinos have at least one chronic physical health condition; those same individuals who also exhibit depressive symptoms experience higher mortality rates. Given their projected population growth of 500% by 2050, it is important to disentangle t…

The purpose of this generic qualitative study was to examine how displaced Latinas coped with unemployment using their religion or spirituality (RS) to attain posttraumatic growth (PTG) using Fowler’s faith development theory. This study contributed to the limited literature on …

Standard academic practices of reading, writing, and knowledge production embedded in colonial and exclusionary practices prohibit self-reference as a mode to analyze and understand literature. As diversity in the English discipline continues to grow, universities need to rethin…

After the mid-twentieth century, the American labor movement began to decline. Across the U.S., Union memberships and the rate of work stoppages decreased. In the hospitality-industry-driven city of Las Vegas, Nevada, however, the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 more than doubl…