Browsing by Department "Latin American Studies"
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(2016-04-11)Department: Latin American StudiesIn Guatemala, a relatively recent education policy articulates the state’s recognition of Guatemala as a multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual country and mandates intercultural, bilingual education in areas where ...
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(2017-03-31)Department: Latin American StudiesNawal Ja’ is a small town in Guatemala where a popular mode of water distribution is the community-based water organization (CBWO). This thesis will argue that a discourse of well-being rooted in the CBWO model as citizens ...
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(2022-03-14)Department: Latin American StudiesThere is little that encompasses the “American dream” so well as the journey of the entrepreneur - the individual who, by many definitions, possesses both a drive and passion to succeed. Becoming an entrepreneur, however, ...
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(2017-03-28)Department: Latin American StudiesThe history and significance of the black population in Argentina has only begun to be researched in earnest in the last four decades. This work will focus on mestizaje and blackness in Argentina, analyzing the experiences ...
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(2012-04-09)Department: Latin American StudiesThis project analyzes the disparate images of women produced during the period of Getúlio Vargas’ Estado Nôvo from 1937-1945, discussing their significance in the state-driven process of identity formation during the period. ...
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(2018-03-26)Department: Latin American StudiesIn the early 1960’s, internal conflict erupted in the majority of Central American countries. Substantial setbacks in economic development, human right, and social aspects in these countries were the result of the democracy ...
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(2020-04-02)Department: Latin American StudiesThe Peace Accords ending a decades long civil war in Guatemala set a goal to overcome the historic discrimination towards the indigenous peoples” through “the transformation of mentalities, attitudes, and behavior of all ...
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(2017-08-07)Department: Latin American StudiesThe Orthodox Church is an institution with deep roots in nationalism and collective identity. It is the patriotic faith of the majority of Eastern European nations, where many regard following the nationally dominant faith ...
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(2017-03-28)Department: Latin American StudiesThe importance of an adequate description of the general population from which a researcher is sampling is a central premise of all epidemiological and public health research. Racial and ethnic categories are a critical ...
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(2014-04-08)Department: Latin American StudiesDuring the past ten years, Mexico has witnessed incredible progress in the fight for rights of its gay and lesbian citizens. In 2009, Mexico City became the first city in Latin America to legally permit same-sex marriage. ...
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(2009-04-13)Department: Latin American StudiesThis research explores the political thought of two Latin American intellectuals and party leaders of the 1930s, Pedro Albizu Campos from Puerto Rico and Plínio Salgado from Brazil. During a decade of economic depression ...
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(2018-03-08)Department: Latin American StudiesThe small town of Chinchero in the highlands of Cusco, Peru is a popular tourist stop known for its rich tradition of handmade textiles and weaving techniques. The female weavers and vendors in Chinchero have developed a ...
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(2015-04-02)Department: Latin American StudiesAmidst student protests that took over the public schools in Chile, student leaders developed an outline of demands for change related to overcoming the vast inequity of opportunity entrenched in the educational system. ...
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(2018-11-20)Department: Latin American StudiesThe Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo are perhaps the most well recognized human rights organizations to emerge in Latin America following the wave of political violence that occurred in the latter portion of the ...
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(2011-04-28)Department: Latin American StudiesIn 1822 Haiti annexed the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo through effective rhetorical persuasion. The petition of Dominican municipalities for Haitian tutelage in the early 1820s and Spain’s refusal to object to the Haitian ...
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(2019-08-19)Department: Latin American StudiesI argue in this thesis that the massive flow of Venezuelan emigration started after 2015 must be understood as a non-voluntary kind of migration because of the similar patterns that this ongoing process shares with previous ...
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(2016-04-11)Department: Latin American StudiesIn recent decades, the United States government enacted immigration policies that transformed migrant workers into undocumented immigrants. Illegality is a highly racialized status, as more than half of Mexican and Central ...