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Situated within critical race theory and Latinx critical theory (LatCrit), the result of this research was a 2-part presentation of a critical co-constructed autoethnography and a qualitative case study. The case study identified factors that promoted intercultural collaboration…

This study will examine diversity, equity, and inclusion issues through the lived experiences of five executive Latinx leaders that serve (as a dean or above) in the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU). There exists a lacuna of Latinx within the executive ranks…

This dissertation provides an educational history of Latinxs in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. From the field of the history of education, it utilized inductive methods of searching for significant cultural phenomena, rather than studying education solely through an institutional focus. …

Relative to their heterosexual peers, sexual minority youth experience significant mental health disparities. This, in part, is due to prejudicial encounters (e.g., discrimination, victimization) because of their sexual minority status, and potential compounding stressors from p…

Latinx and Chicanx literary, visual, and cultural productions addressing AIDS demonstrate strategies of AIDS consciousness and activism that are distinctly different from the confrontational and politically symbolic actions of largely white male groups like ACT UP, and, as such,…

This quantitative study examined the perception of Hispanic Heritage Month and LGBT History Month celebratory events at 10 public Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs) in the Midwestern region. Utilizing a research-developed, self-administered questionnaire, data were collecte…

The purpose of this grant proposal project was to seek funding for a program intended to recruit a greater number of resource families who identify as Latinx and African American. A review of the literature provided information about the causes and impacts of placement instabili…

The dissertation, titled “Take Care and Venerate”: Morenita, Excessive Personhood, and Devotedness in a Puerto Rican Family, explores one question: how religious objects are theological. Using the historical polemics around images (such as idolatry and iconoclasm), scholarship o…

Even though the rhetoric that immigrants hear from many sources is often less than welcoming, the Latinx immigrant community continues to increase and is growing rapidly in the United States (Pew Research Center, 2018). Making it important than ever to learn more about the accul…

Latinx students in the United States are at risk for unmet mental and behavioral health needs (Kataoka, Zhang, & Wells, 2002; Toppelberg, Hollinshead, Collins, & Nieto-Castañon, 2013) and are disproportionately referred for special education and disciplinary consequences (Moreno…

This study utilized a narrative inquiry model to explore the narratives-in-construction of seven Latinx students’ lived experiences in a ninth-grade social studies class. Layered and parallel narratives constructed around critical incidents and as told by the student participant…

While our current political moment and the US' long history of anti-immigrant rhetoric clearly demonstrates how Latinx people are socially marginalized, across the country there is a wave of government communications and outreach practitioners incorporating social justice and eq…

Background: Museums have been fundamental tools outside of formal learning environments in providing new learning and to support knowledge acquired in the traditional classroom. Museum spaces can add to the learning development of all students, yet the focus of this research is …

This work examines the interface between adaptation and acculturation to the experience of colonialism and the etiology of maladaptive parenting skills in a subjugated population, specifically the Latinx diaspora. It explores intergenerational trauma through the lens of the Dark…

Latinx individuals are the fastest growing cultural group in the United States and are at an increased risk for traumatic event exposure compared to their non-Hispanic White counterparts. Extensive evidence links trauma exposure to more negative parenting outcomes, both in terms…

Despite a wealth of effective psychotherapies for youth mental health disorders, a significant proportion of affected youth do not receive treatment (Merikengas et al., 2011). Although a variety of factors may contribute to this treatment gap, one proposed hypothesis is a lack o…

This dissertation, “Forma, lo performativo, acción poética: Poetic Art’s Critiques of—and Alternatives to—an Americas of Conquest,” takes a comparative approach to the long history of poetic-artistic form in the Americas, together with an analysis rooted in traditions of Frankfu…

Drawing on historical case study methodology informed by critical perspectives of education, this study examines the decision by Tucson United School District (TUSD) to ban its nationally recognized Mexican American Studies (MAS) program in 2012. Framing public education as a si…

The purpose of this study is to contribute to the existing research on the impact of trauma on Latinx migrants and refugees, as well as reveal the best theoretical approaches for providing psychosocial interventions and multimodal treatments to reduce trauma among Latinx communi…

This paper examines the history of the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre during the 1980s and 1990s as a forum for the expression of a pan-Latinx identity. The paper draws on two different strands of evidence: plays that were produced and/or written during the period in question an…