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- Author(s):
- Ruby Amezquita, Jonathan Lopez
- Abstract:
Shows how Mexican immigrants encounter a new cultural construct of adolescence in the United States. Examines how conflicting inter-generational cultural experiences affect adolescence among Mexican-American youth in South Bend. Features interviews with young females preparing for and experiencing quinceañera and young males going through a defacto masculine rite of passage into gangs.
- Date Published:
- 2006-12-01
- Date Created:
- 2006-12-01
- Record Visibility:
- Public
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- Author(s):
- Greg Podolej
- Abstract:
Describes the history of Polish settlement in South Bend, the entrance of the Mexican community and the processes of ethnic transition. Focuses on the transition in the St. Adalbert parish and the Central Bakery (la Panadería Central). In English and Spanish.
- Date Published:
- 2008-12-01
- Date Created:
- 2008-12-01
- Record Visibility:
- Public
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- Author(s):
- Erin Jelm
- Abstract:
Grounded in extensive literature review and primary ethnographic research in the Mexican immigrant community. Explores the role of social networks as essential sources of support and generators of social capital for Latino immigrants as they adjust to life in the United States. Whereas in U.S. “American” culture, kinship is defined as biogenetic, Latino culture is characteristically more flexible with its interpretation. “Family” includes extended relatives and even close …
- Date Published:
- 2010-05-01
- Date Created:
- 2010-05-01
- Record Visibility:
- Public