Hispanic American Students' Cultural Orientation: Does Geographic Location, Institutional Type, or Level of Stress have an Effect?

NASPA Journal ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasti Torres
Keyword(s):  
Hispanic Americans ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Cultural Orientation ◽  
Institutional Type ◽  
Hispanic American Students ◽  
Hispanic College Students ◽  
Majority Culture ◽  
American Students ◽  
Bicultural Orientation

This article looks at 370 Hispanic college students from institutional locations where Hispanics are significantly present in the population and from areas were Hispanics are not a critical mass. The Bicultural Orientation Model was used as a framework to determine whether geographic location influenced the students’ level of acculturation and/or level of ethnic identification. The findings indicate that students in areas where Hispanic Americans do not have a critical mass adjusting to the majority culture at a higher level than students in critical mass locales. No difference was found in their level of ethnic identity. Cultural orientation was not found to be associated with institutional type or scores on the College Stress Inventory.

Depression and Suicidal Ideation in African-American and Hispanic American High School Students

1992 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 618-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lester ◽  
Denise Anderson
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
African American ◽  
High School Students ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
African American Students ◽  
Hispanic American ◽  
Hispanic American Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
American Students

21 Hispanic American students in an urban New Jersey high school obtained higher depression and suicidal ideation scores than 42 African-American students.

High adenovirus 36 seroprevalence among a population of Hispanic American youth

2018 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily C. LaVoy ◽  
Katherine R. Arlinghaus ◽  
Bridgette V. Rooney ◽  
Priti Gupta ◽  
Richard Atkinson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Weight Status ◽  
Health Intervention ◽  
Hispanic American ◽  
Hispanic American Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Urban Middle School ◽  
American Students ◽  
Adenovirus 36

Abstract Infection with adenovirus 36 (Ad36) has been associated with risk of obesity in youth in some studies, but the seroprevalence of this virus has not been examined among all populations. As Hispanic-American youth are of greater risk for obesity than other American youth, we sought to determine the proportion of Ad36 seropositive (Ad36+) students in an urban middle school serving a Hispanic population. We further examined if Ad36+ students were more likely to have obesity, and if Ad36 serostatus impacted changes in weight status following a health intervention. We determined body mass index (BMI) at the beginning and end of a 16-week health intervention among 40 Hispanic-American middle-school students. Ad36 serostatus was determined by enzyme-linked immunsorbent assay (ELISA). Seventy percent of the students were Ad36+. Ad36+ and Ad36 seronegative (Ad36−) did not differ before or after the intervention in body weight measures. The odds of being classified as obese was 1.4 times greater among Ad36+ than Ad36− at baseline, and 2.4 times greater post-intervention, but these were not statistically significant. We report a high seroprevalence of Ad36 among a population of Hispanic-American students. Ad36 seropositivity was associated with a trend for a greater likelihood of having obesity, but did not impact response to a health intervention.

Asian American Feminist Performance

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy M. S. P. Burns ◽  
Mana Hayakawa
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
The Body ◽  
Feminist Studies ◽  
Subject Formation ◽  
Asian American Women ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Feminist Performance ◽  
And Performance

Acknowledging “absence” as a powerful and accurate political charge against the continuing exclusion of Asian Americans in American theater, dance, and the larger mainstream US performance landscape, Asian American feminist performance has inspired a critical mass of articles and monographs. A broad range of works by feminist performance scholars address productions that center on Asian American women, gender, and sexuality, and also explore and contest Asian American subject formation. Although they provide different ways of thinking about feminist approaches to Asian American performance, all emphasize how racialized bodies are produced within specific historical and political conditions and are invested in resisting cultural limitations and in interrogating power. Whether drawing on theater, dance, music, drag, or performances of everyday life, this scholarship can provide a glimpse of the critical concerns of overlapping academic fields. Whether mapping theoretical frameworks, archival politics, uses of dance as method, epistemologies of the body, fandom, affect, or alternative or unconventional performance spaces, Asian American feminist performance studies scholars move away from rigid definitions of identity, form, geographic location, or audience. At the intersection of Asian American, performance, and feminist studies, the multiple strategies of feminist praxis—such as archiving and analyzing historical documents, foregrounding bodily performance alongside text-based materials, and reconceptualizing theoretical and artistic paradigms—signal the capaciousness of the categories “Asian American,” “feminist,” and “performance.”

Science is “Ciencia”: Meeting the needs of hispanic American students

1993 ◽  
Vol 77 (6) ◽  
pp. 669-683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven J. Rakow ◽  
Andrea B. Bermudez
Keyword(s):  
Hispanic American ◽  
Hispanic American Students ◽  
American Students
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