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Journal articles on the topic "Latino threat narrative"
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Carter, Phillip M. "National narratives, institutional ideologies, and local talk: The discursive production of Spanish in a “new” US Latino community." Language in Society 43, no. 2 (March 27, 2014): 209–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404514000049.
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AbstractThis study investigates the figuration of “Spanish” as a sociocultural discourse within the context of a middle school in North Carolina, where immigration from Latin America is new, yet quickly accelerating. The school-based discourse is analyzed in terms of everyday ways of talking among students, as well as institutional ideologies and practices, which mediate national discourses about US Latinos and reinforce tropes circulated by students. Everyday ways of talking among non-Latino students suggest that Latinos—both immigrants and US born—are Spanish monolinguals who “choose” to be segregated from the English speakers. The use of Spanish by Latinos is constructed by non-Latinos as secretive and dangerous, linking local tropes about Spanish to national discourses. Consistent informal pressure against Spanish at school links to broader pressures against Spanish in the community and beyond. The discourse problematizes Latino identity formations and limits the types of identities available to Latino students. (Discursive production, Spanish, US Latinos, Latino threat narrative)*
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Díaz McConnell, Eileen. "Numbers, Narratives, and Nation: Mainstream News Coverage of U.S. Latino Population Growth, 1990–2010." Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 5, no. 4 (April 3, 2018): 500–517. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2332649218761978.
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Ideologies that support racial domination and White supremacy remain foundational in U.S. society, even as the nation becomes increasingly diverse and progressively focused on quantitative measurement. This study explores how a prominent mainstream news outlet represents the growth of the nation’s second largest population, Latinos, within this changing demographic and numeric environment. Drawing from two frameworks, the Latino Threat Narrative and Color-Blind Racism, quantitative and qualitative analyses are conducted with 174 Los Angeles Times ( LAT) articles about 2000 and 2010 census results. Reporters for the LAT, located in the single most important U.S. location for Latinos, frame Latinos and their population dynamics in line with the overtly racist narrative of Latino threat and the covertly racist ideology of color-blind racism. Moreover, the analyses reveal that quantitative logics circulating in the present evaluative climate further the view that Latinos pose cultural-demographic threats to the nation. Quantification also enhances color-blind frames and rhetorical strategies justifying present-day racial stratification and the subordinate locations of non-White groups. This suggests how White supremacy retains its power as the populations and metrics of evaluation change. Finally, given recent research linking demographic trends and media representations with attitudes, policy positions, and political partisanship, these representations have implications for the well-being of Latinos, other populations, and the nation.
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Estep, Kevin. "Constructing a Language Problem: Status-based Power Devaluation and the Threat of Immigrant Inclusion." Sociological Perspectives 60, no. 3 (March 17, 2016): 437–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0731121416638367.
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Opposition to immigrant inclusion is often grounded in a “Latino threat” narrative that portrays Latino immigrants and their descendants as incapable of assimilation and “undeserving” of the benefits of citizenship. Are nativist reactions to this narrative strongest where immigrants are lagging behind in cultural assimilation, or where they are actually making the greatest gains? Two competing logics of status threat are tested through an analysis of county-level voting returns on California’s Proposition 227. Status politics theories predict higher antibilingual support where immigrants are failing to learn English. In contrast, the status devaluation argument leads to the counterintuitive prediction that support should be highest where language assimilation rates are high. Although we might expect that the claims of the Latino threat narrative would be least appealing where objective circumstances refute them, findings suggest that the resonance of such claims can be amplified in settings where they are furthest from the truth. The theoretical argument advanced helps explain why nativist policies continue to generate broad appeal at a time when immigrants are rapidly assimilating.
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Russell, Kalen Nicole. "Counter-narratives and collegiate success of Black and Latinos." Iris Journal of Scholarship 2 (July 12, 2020): 74–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.15695/iris.v2i0.4821.
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Today’s college student is endowed with enormous pressure to succeed; to graduate within four years, to work part-time, to be involved in extracurricular activities, curate friendships, pursue internships, and maintain a competitive grade point average. These pressures can wreak havoc on the physical, mental, psychological, and emotional well-being of students. Eurocentric and patriarchal ideals shape American values and standards exacerbate the social pressures faced by minoritized groups who are already distanced from the status quo. The university campus is no exception to this exacerbation. College and university campuses can be viewed as microcosms of society; which means the same types of social discrimination, racial privileges, and racial oppression observable in the greater society are also observable on a university campus and influence peer-to-peer interactions, student self-perception, students’ relationship with professors, and ability to succeed.
College and university campuses that are comprised of a predominately White student body, with students of color comprising a smaller group, are often referred to as Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs). While some PWIs strive to create a diverse and inclusive campus culture, many university campuses are deemed as unresponsive to the needs to racial minorities (Gomer & White). Unresponsive colleges and universities exhibit the effects of institutional racism: equating success with cultural conformity through campus culture, maintaining a racially homogenous faculty, and exclusionary practices which lead minorities to feel excluded, inferior, or forced to assimilate. In these environments, minorities are pressured to meet societal standards, assimilate and defy stereotypes which decreases their mental bandwidth and limits their capacity to learn and succeed on a university campus (Verschelden, 2017).
Institutional racism, which reduces the cognitive bandwidth of Black and Latino students, can be noted as a contributing factor to the discrepancies in retention and graduation rates of Blacks and Latino students compared to White students. Bandwidth can be reclaimed by decentering Whiteness and empowering marginalized students to define their own identities, name their own challenges, validate their own experiences, find community, and develop strategies to dismantle oppression through rejecting assimilation, cultural expectations, and master-narratives (Verschelden, 2017). These efforts of resisting the assimilation and marginalization are collectively referred to as counter-narrative storytelling, a form of self-actualization which validates the identities, experiences, and capabilities of traditionally oppressed groups. Counter-narrative storytelling has historically been used to uplift and encourage minoritized groups through validating their identities, dismantling stereotypes and stereotype threat and by providing community by creating space for sharing commonalities between individual experiences. Counter-narrative storytelling can help empower marginalized individuals to set and achieve the goals they set for themselves personally, professionally, academically or otherwise.
Counter-narrative storytelling is grounded in Critical Race Theory (CRT). CRT provides a critical means of evaluating the relationships between the success of Black and Latino/a students and their ability to construct a counter-narratives and achieve collegiate success. CRT is referenced in the included research as it. CRT will also provide a framework for evaluating what university practices are most effective in promoting the success of Black and Latino students.
This paper will examine the influence of counter-narrative storytelling on the success collegiate success Black and Latino students at PWIs. The phrase “success” shall be operationalized to mean college retention, feeling included and supported within the university, and graduation from college. The referenced articles examine the experiences of Blacks and Latino/a students enrolled in colleges and universities across the United States and the influence counter-narrative storytelling had on their experience.
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Gomez Cervantes, Andrea, Daniel Alvord, and Cecilia Menjívar. "'Bad Hombres': The Effects of Criminalizing Latino Immigrants through Law and Media in the Rural Midwest." Migration Letters 15, no. 2 (April 29, 2018): 182–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/ml.v15i2.368.
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In this article we explore the policy and legal build-up that led to the 2017 Executive Orders targeting Latino/a immigrant families and communities. We provide a historical backdrop for the merging of criminal and immigration laws that has contributed to the criminalization of the behaviors, bodies, and communities of Latino/a immigrants. We then look at the media narratives that burry immigrants’ complex identities and reproduce daily the demonization of Latino/as as criminals. Together, these factors contribute to socially construct a “Brown Threat” which reproduces anxieties and fears about crime, terror, and threats to the nation, affecting the everyday lives of immigrants and non-immigrants alike, though in different ways. Based on an 18-month ethnography in a small Kansas town carried out before and after the signing of Executive Orders in 2017, we examine the spill-over effects of this environment on Guatemalan immigrant families as well as on non-immigrant Anglo-white residents in a rural community.
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Duxbury, Scott W., Laura C. Frizzell, and Sadé L. Lindsay. "Mental Illness, the Media, and the Moral Politics of Mass Violence." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 55, no. 6 (July 11, 2018): 766–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022427818787225.
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Objectives: We examine how news media portrays the causes of mass shootings for shooters of different races. Specifically, we explore whether White men are disproportionately framed as mentally ill, and what narratives media tend to invoke when covering mass shootings through the lens of mental illness as opposed to other explanatory frames. Methods: The study examines a unique data set of 433 news documents covering 219 mass shootings between January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2015. It analyzes the data using a mixed methods approach, combining logistic regression with content analysis. Results: Quantitative findings show that Whites and Latinos are more likely to have their crime attributed to mental illness than Blacks. Qualitative findings show that rhetoric within these discussions frame White men as sympathetic characters, while Black and Latino men are treated as perpetually violent threats to the public. Conclusions: Results suggest that there is racial variability in how the media assign blame to mass shooters. While Black men and Latinos are cast as violently inclined, White men are treated as victims or sympathetic characters. Results also indicate that there are noteworthy differences in how blame is assigned to Black men and Latinos.
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Wei, Kai, Jaime Booth, and Rachel Fusco. "Cognitive and Emotional Outcomes of Latino Threat Narratives in News Media: An Exploratory Study." Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research 10, no. 2 (June 2019): 213–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/703265.
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Bartira Santos Silva, Lilian, Carla Azevedo de Aragão, and Nelson De Luca Pretto. "Relatório Macbride: Releitura à luz de ameaças ao direito à comunicação nas plataformas digitais." Ámbitos. Revista Internacional de Comunicación, no. 51 (2021): 62–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/ambitos.2021.i51.07.
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With the digital network environments, the possibilities for interaction and participation have expanded significantly, inaugurating a significant and decentralized shift in the production and publication of narratives. The promise of horizontalization reveals the opening of communication channels pari passu to the idealization of a narrative counterpoint in the face of the centralization of traditional media, that is, a harbinger of the promotion of the human right to communication. However, the internet, which is born under the proposal of open architecture, is soon overtaken by business conglomerates. By appropriating digital networks, the proprietary capitalist policy complexifies the scenario, posing us with a question: would we be losing the possibilities of democratizing communication in digital spaces? Therefore, this work problematizes the (im) possibilities of promoting the right to communication on digital platforms. The theoretical discussion revisits the MacBride Report, prepared 40 years ago by UNESCO, which proposes the reduction of commercial influences in the organization of communications, defends national communication policies and ratifies communication as a human right, pointing out its prognoses about the impacts of technology and its setbacks in countries considered underdeveloped, demarcating congruences with theories of communication developed by leading Latin American authors in the debate on the human right to communication: Bordenave (1989), Freire (2005), Peruzzo (2005) and Marques de Melo ( 2008) and theorists of digital sociology, among them, Lupton (2015), Selwyn (2019), Morozov (2018) and Silveira (2019).
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Gómez, Felipe. "Telling Images: Forced Disappearance and Territorial Displacement in Recent Mexican and Colombian Documentary Graphic Novels." Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies 10, no. 2 (July 1, 2020): 14–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.18085/1549-9502.10.2.14.
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Abstract Territorial displacements, stolen lands, repression, targeted assassinations, and forced disappearances among rural communities in Mexico and Colombia are constant threats that generate complex and urgent questions on the fragile conditions in which the residents of these communities live their day-to-day lives. In this article, I examine recent graphic novels that take an ethical stand to discuss local events in their connections to drug-trafficking, para-State, and other contemporary forms of violence. While there are divergent reasons, conditions and challenges for the creation, distribution, and reception of these graphic novels in such contexts, their authors use similar semiotic and literary mechanisms to imagine and represent these types of violence, and aim to include voices usually omitted, and/or displaced in the narration of these conflicts. I argue that it is precisely due to these inclusions that the role of these works in the politics of narrative and memory of armed conflicts in these Latin American countries is essential for the recognition of new human geographies and cartographies generated by the forced disappearance and uprooting of these communities using violence.
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Patton, Desmond Upton, Robin Stevens, Jocelyn R. Smith Lee, Grace-Cecile Eya, and William Frey. "You Set Me Up: Gendered Perceptions of Twitter Communication Among Black Chicago Youth." Social Media + Society 6, no. 2 (April 2020): 205630512091387. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305120913877.
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We sought to identify the key dynamics in the relationship between social media and violence by identifying new mechanisms that elucidate how Internet banging becomes offline violence through the perceptions of the Black and Latino boys and men. We conducted 33 interviews with Black and Latino boys and men aged 14–24 who live in Chicago, have experience with gang violence, and are social media users. In our investigation of the use of social media by boys and young men to navigate neighborhood violence, we uncovered a recurring narrative about gender relationships in violence. Male participants often attributed escalations of violence to girls and young women, beginning with online communications that migrated to face-to-face meetings. They described girls and young women as the precipitators of violence through “set-up” meetings that began under the guise of romance, dating, and courtship. This study provides an in-depth examination of how males perceive girls and young women as unique threats to their personal safety, a narrative we must engage with in order to further current violence prevention efforts. Future research is needed to examine the lived experiences of young women, their experience with and exposure to social media-related gang violence, and their view of social media behaviors of men that may lead to violence.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Latino threat narrative"
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Rivas, Mónica Gaglio. "Resistance and the construction of identity in three Latina narratives of self-discovery /." view abstract or download file of text, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3018390.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2001.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 187-200). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Marrone, Melanie. "Three Latina Counter-narratives of Courage, Strength, and Resiliency Experienced from the Margins of a White Majority High School." Thesis, Lewis and Clark College, 2020. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=22623009.
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Few studies focus on the voices of students of color and their insight and recommendations for school leaders wishing to transform their schools into socially just and equitable institutions. This dissertation bridges the gap in the literature by giving voice to three Latina women who attended the same predominantly White high school within a ten-year period. The purpose of the study was to understand how the participants described their ethnic racial identity, and how they experienced schooling, within a predominantly White educational space. Further, the study offers concrete suggestions for school leaders wishing to transform their schools into culturally responsive institutions. Narrative storytelling was the chosen methodology, with the expressed goal of honoring the participants’ lived experiences navigating a predominantly White educational system. Three in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with each participant. By voicing their challenges, strengths, and resiliency, this study provides three counter-narratives through which educational leaders may come to better understand the needs of Latino/a students. Key findings of this study included an examination of the exclusionary treatment experienced by the participants and an analysis of the ways in which these experiences impacted their ability to fully access or benefit from their education. Within each narrative, I grouped the participant experiences under two categories: Identity and School Experience. Themes and sub-themes emerged within each category. These were included to provide deeper, richer narratives. The theme of the critical role of family emerged under the first category, Identity. Under the second category of School Experience, three overarching themes emerged. These included the participants’ experiences of exclusion, support, and empowerment in school. Within exclusion, the girls reported experiences related to racism and discrimination, dominant discourse/White privilege, institutional barriers, belonging, disengagement, discipline/unequal treatment, physical/emotional mistreatment, and silencing. Under support, sub-themes were identified around adult allyship, relationships with staff, and parental attitude toward education. Finally, within empowering experiences, the sub-theme voice—particularly the use of voice to speak out against inequities—emerged. The combined voices, told through the participant narratives, provide valuable insights for educational leaders wishing to reform their schools into more inclusive, socially just institutions.
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Marquis, Rebecca. "Daughters of Saint Teresa authority and rhetoric in the confessional narratives of three twentieth-century Spanish and Latin American women writers /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3240037.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2006."Title from dissertation home page (viewed July 16, 2007)." Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-10, Section: A, page: 3815. Adviser: Kathleen A. Myers.
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"Pathways to Support for Integrationist Immigration Policymaking among U.S.-born Whites: Testing the Deprovincialization Hypothesis of the Intergroup Contact Theory and the Role of Latino Immigrant Threat Perception." Doctoral diss., 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.53878.
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abstract: Nearly 11 million immigrants in the United States, three-quarters of which are Latino, lack legal authorization to live and work in the country; nonetheless, the majority of these individuals have resided in the U.S. for a decade or more and have profound social, emotional, cultural, and economic ties to the country (Passel & Cohn, 2018). Despite being deeply embedded in their communities, the dominant policy response involves increased immigration enforcement and advancing a hostile socio-political context (Gulasekaram & Ramakishnan, 2015). This policy approach comes at a great cost to immigrant and Latino communities throughout the U.S. and is largely ineffective. Accordingly, many advocates and stakeholders, including the National Association of Social Workers (2017), argue for policies that integrate “unauthorized permanent residents” (Martínez, Slack, & Martínez- Schuldt, 2018).
The primary purpose of this study was to understand strategies that can be leveraged to build support for integrationist policymaking. Among a sample of U.S.-born white college students (n=708), intensive, community, and college contact with Latino immigrants and people of color were assessed; the relationships between intergroup contact and support for integrationist policymaking were examined. To better understand the contact-policy attitudes relationship, the deprovincialization hypothesis of the intergroup contact theory (Pettigrew & Tropp, 2011) and the Latino threat narrative (Chavez, 2013) were merged and tested as a serial pathway by which contact and policy attitudes may be related.
Findings revealed intensive and community contact with Latino immigrants and people of color related to more support for integrationist legislation. In most cases, these effects were direct as well as indirect through the ethnocentrismthreat attitudes pathway. Ethnocentrism fully accounted for the relationships between intensive and community intergroup contact and threat attitudes. These findings have several implications for intervention. First, in the long-term struggle for immigrant integration, intergroup interaction between whites and people of color should be promoted, and the importance of casual intergroup contact should not be dismissed. Interventions that reduce social segregation are needed, as well as efforts to effectively harness the ethnic-racial diversity that presently exists. Cross-group exposure interventions that aim to overcome ethnocentric tendencies should be implemented.Dissertation/Thesis
Doctoral Dissertation Social Work 2019
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""Before the storm there wasn't much of a thought. When Katrina happened, that changed everything:" Social network geometry, discourses of threat, and English usage among Latinxs in post-Katrina New Orleans." Tulane University, 2019.
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archives@tulane.eduThis dissertation presents the results of a tripartite exploration of English use by Latinxs in post-Katrina New Orleans, defined here as an ethnolinguistic repertoire that I call New Orleans Latinx English (NOLAE). The project considers how contemporary English use differs from that found in a pre-Katrina sample, how social network geometry influences linguistic performance, and how the localized discursive articulation of the Latinx community shapes the sociolinguistic context. I find that while vowel realization patterns provide no evidence of large-scale deviation across the pre-and-post Katrina samples, there are four vowels which exhibit statistically significant divergence. In each of these cases, the post-Katrina sample is more variable. I also illustrate that the geometry of the local Latinx social network, defined in terms of neighborhood affiliations, has a statistically significant impact on the realization of linguistic variables. Finally, I demonstrate that Spanish and Spanish-influenced English are discursively constructed as marked linguistic performance, leading local Latinxs to aspire to ‘standard’ English performance in public spaces. Differential experiences of this pressure is posited to underlie much of the linguistic variation observed in NOLAE, both across the pre-and-post-Katrina samples and within the contemporary sample.
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Books on the topic "Latino threat narrative"
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(Editor), Jeffrey Quilter, and Gary Urton (Editor), eds. Narrative Threads: Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipu (Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture). University of Texas Press, 2002.
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Morales, Harold D. Latino and Muslim in America. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190852603.001.0001.
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Even as many people view Latinos and Muslims as growing threats in US discourse, Latino Muslims celebrate their intersecting identities in their daily lives and in their mediated representations. The story of Latinos embracing Islam is set in an American religious landscape that is characteristically “diverse and fluid.” It follows distinctive immigration patterns and laws, metropolitan spaces, and new media technologies that have increasingly brought Latinos and Muslims into contact with one another. It is part of the mass exodus out of the Catholic Church, the digitization of religion, and the growth of Islam. It is set in a national context dominated by particular media politics, information economies, and the hyper-racialization of its inhabitants and their religious identities. The historically specific character of groups like Latino Muslims increasingly compels scholars to approach the categories of race, religion, and media as inextricably intertwined. This monograph therefore draws on and engages central categories, theories, and issues in the fields of religious, ethnic, and media studies. By carefully attending to the stories that Latino Muslims tell about themselves, the work examines the racialization of religion, the narrating of religious conversion experiences, the dissemination of post-colonial histories, and the development of Latino Muslim networks across the United States. This study of how being Latino and Muslim in America becomes mediated is a cautionary analysis of how so-called minority groups are made in the United States and how they become fragmented and nevertheless struggle for recognition in a “diverse and fluid” landscape.
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(Translator), H. J. Edwards, ed. The Gallic War (Thrift Edition). Dover Publications, 2006.
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Posner, Paul W., Viviana Patroni, and Jean François Mayer. Labor Politics in Latin America. University Press of Florida, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9781683400455.001.0001.
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Labor Politics in Latin America assesses the capacity of working-class organizations to represent and advance working people’s demands in the era of globalization and neoliberalism, in which capital has reasserted its power on a global scale. The book’s premise is that the longer-term sustainability of development strategies for the region is largely connected to the capacity of working-class organizations to secure a fairer distribution of the gains from growth through labor legislation reform. Its analysis suggests the need to take into consideration the wider structural changes that reconfigured the political maps of the countries examined (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Venezuela), for example, globalization and its impact on democratic transformation in the region, operating within longer time frames. It is precisely this wider structural analysis and historical narrative that allows the book’s case studies to show that, even in the uncovering of substantial variation, what becomes evident in the study of Latin America over the last three decades is the overwhelming reality that for most workers in the region, labor reform—or the lack thereof —in essence increased precarity and informality and weakened labor movements.
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Murgatroyd, Paul, and Paul Murgatroyd. Beauty (289–345). Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781786940698.003.0008.
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This chapter provides the Latin text and a literal translation into English of the section on prayers for beauty and a detailed critical appreciation of those lines, paying particular attention to poetic aspects such as sound, style, rhythm, diction, imagery, vividness and narrative technique, and also assessing humour, wit, irony and the force and validity of the satirical thrusts. Questions of text are considered as well, where they are of substantial importance. In this section Juvenal asks some very relevant questions (e.g. is beauty so desirable; is it worth going to great lengths to secure it; does it necessarily make you happy?). His main thrust is that this prayer is harmful, because beauty entails various serious dangers (such as rape, castration, moral corruption and death), but this basic premise is patently flawed. Messalina is cited as an example in a vivid narrative.
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Gold, Barbara K. Perpetua’s Passio. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195385458.003.0002.
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This chapter discusses the text of Perpetua’s Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis: its authorship, date, authenticity, structure, genre, Latinity, manuscripts, and the later Acta, which are based on the earlier, longer version. A summary of the content of the twenty-one sections of the Passio is given, with attention to the three parts of the narrative. It also analyzes the language and meaning of Perpetua’s four visions or dreams and the words for “seeing” used throughout the text. Both the Latin and Greek manuscripts are discussed. The chapter includes a summary and analysis of the Acta, later and shorter versions of the Passio.
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Fitzgerald, William, and Efrossini Spentzou. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198768098.003.0001.
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Part One of the introduction places the book within the framework of the recent spatial turn in the Humanities, engaging with key psychogeographical notions. It contextualizes the volume with reference to relevant studies on both Greek and Latin literature that have engaged with such perspectives. This part also explores how Roman writers themselves spatialize their narratives and maps how different contributors engage with the spatial element of the various narratives. Part Two engages with aspects of modern political philosophy, utilizing it in order to appreciate the ideological disputes inherent in space’s capacity to both represent and construct. This Part engages with various spatial theorists who attempt to write about space while avoiding polarized categorizations. Part Three provides an extensive and intertwined interpretation of all contributions, linking the varied discussions into a consideration of the qualities and potential of the written spaces.
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Jolowicz, Daniel. Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novels. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192894823.001.0001.
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This work establishes and explores connections between Greek imperial literature and Latin poetry. As such, it challenges conventional thinking about literary and cultural interaction of the period, which assumes that imperial Greeks are not much interested in Roman cultural products (especially literature). Instead, it argues that Latin poetry is a crucially important frame of reference for Greek imperial literature. This has significant ramifications, bearing on the question of bilingual allusion and intertextuality, as well as on that of cultural interaction during the imperial period more generally. The argument mobilizes the Greek novels—a literary form that flourished under the Roman Empire, offering narratives of love, separation, and eventual reunion in and around the Mediterranean basin—as a series of case studies. Three of these novels in particular—Chariton’s Chaereas and Callirhoe, Achilles Tatius’ Clitophon and Leucippe, and Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe—are analysed for the extent to which they allude to Latin poetry, and for the effects (literary and ideological) of such allusion. After an Introduction that establishes the cultural context and parameters of the study, each chapter pursues the strategies of an individual novelist in connection with Latin poetry: Chariton and Latin love elegy (Chapter 1); Chariton and Ovidian epistles and exilic poetry (Chapter 2); Chariton and Vergil’s Aeneid (Chapter 3); Achilles Tatius and Latin love elegy (Chapter 4); Achilles Tatius and Vergil’s Aeneid (Chapter 5); Achilles Tatius and the theme of bodily destruction in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Lucan’s Bellum Civile, and Seneca’s Phaedra (Chapter 6); Longus and Vergil’s Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid (Chapter 7). The work offers the first book-length study of the role of Latin literature in Greek literary culture under the empire and thus provides fresh perspectives and new approaches to the literature and culture of this period.
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Murgatroyd, Paul. Military Glory (133–87). Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781786940698.003.0006.
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This chapter provides the Latin text and a literal translation into English of the section on prayers for military glory in Juvenal’s tenth satire and a detailed critical appreciation of those lines (133-187), paying particular attention to poetic aspects such as sound, style, rhythm, diction, imagery, vividness and narrative technique, and also assessing humour, wit, irony and the force and validity of the satirical thrusts. Questions of text are considered as well, where they are of substantial importance. In this section of the poem Juvenal presents a much more comprehensive assault on the object of prayer, using three examples (Hannibal, Alexander and Xerxes). This is a vigorous and entertaining treatment, with much ridicule of the three commanders. The poet portrays the desire for glory as destructive (to others), excessive (in the case of Hannibal and Alexander) and pointless.
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Hutchinson, G. O. Plutarch's Rhythmic Prose. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198821717.001.0001.
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Greek literature is divided, like many literatures, into poetry and prose; but in the earlier Roman Empire, 31 BC to AD 300, much Greek (and Latin) prose was written in one organized rhythmic system. Whether most, or hardly any, Greek prose adopted this patterning has been entirely unclear; this book for the first time adequately establishes an answer. It then seeks to get deeper into the nature of prose-rhythm through one of the greatest Imperial works, Plutarch’s Lives. All its phrases, almost 100,000, have been scanned rhythmically. Prose-rhythm is revealed as a means of expression, which draws attention to words and word-groups. (Online readings are offered too.) Some passages in the Lives pack rhythms together more closely than others; the book looks especially at rhythmically dense passages. These do not occur randomly; they attract attention to themselves, and are marked out as climactic in the narrative, or as in other ways of highlighted significance. Comparison emerges as crucial to the Lives on many levels. Much of the book closely discusses particular dense moments, in commentary form, to show how much rhythm contributes to understanding, and is to be integrated with other sorts of criticism. These remarkable passages make apparent the greatness of Plutarch as a prose-writer: a side not greatly considered amid the huge resurgence of work on him. The book also analyses closely rhythmic and unrhythmic passages from three Greek novelists. Rhythm illuminates both a supreme Greek writer, Plutarch, and three prolific centuries of Greek literary history.
Book chapters on the topic "Latino threat narrative"
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"1. The Latino Threat Narrative." In The Latino Threat, 23–47. Stanford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780804786188-003.
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Guevarra, Rudy P. "“Latino Threat in the 808?”." In Beyond Ethnicity. University of Hawai'i Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.21313/hawaii/9780824869885.003.0010.
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This chapter examines the Latino population of Hawaiʻi, one of the oldest yet least explored settler groups to migrate to the islands. I begin by examining what I call the “Tam incident,” in which Local Chinese Hawai‘i councilman Rod Tam referred to Mexican workers in Hawai‘i as “wetbacks.” This incident reveals both the understudied history of Latinos in Hawai‘i as well as current racist stereotypes of Latinos on the islands, which I contend both illustrates the influence of continental U.S. racial thinking, as well as the limits of the “aloha spirit.” Utilizing Leo Chavez’s “Latino Threat” narrative, I demonstrate how Mexicans become racialized in Hawaiʻi and what this signifies within the larger narrative of citizenship and belonging in “the Aloha State.” Their racialization highlights the forms of marginalization, stereotypes, labor oppression, shifting hierarchies and social exclusion faced by Latinos in Hawai‘i. I argue that race, not ethnicity highlights structural and institutional processes that continue to reinforce the idea that Latinos do not exist in the islands, are newcomers, and take people’s jobs, rather than see them as one of the oldest settler communities that has contributed significantly to the economic, social and cultural fabric of Hawaiʻi.
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Abrajano, Marisa, and Zoltan L. Hajnal. "Media Coverage of Immigration and White Partisanship." In White Backlash. Princeton University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691164434.003.0006.
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This chapter examines the role of news media in driving white fears regarding immigration. In particular, it explores the relationship between media coverage of immigration and aggregate shifts in white party identification. It first considers how the media influences public opinion before discussing the media's profit-driven incentives to frame immigration in a negative manner. Content analysis of immigration-related articles from the New York Times from 1980 to 2011 shows that when the issue of immigration is brought to the attention of the public, it is generally with an emphasis on the negative consequences of immigration. This negative coverage leads to important effects on white macropartisanship. Across this time period, the chapter finds that the reliance on the Latino threat narrative by the media is correlated with significant defection away from the Democratic Party along with increases in the proportion of the public that identifies as Republicans and Independents.
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Mendoza-Reis, Noni, Angela Louque, and Mei-Yan Lu. "The Resilient Women of Color Leaders." In Black and Brown Leadership and the Promotion of Change in an Era of Social Unrest, 55–75. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7235-1.ch003.
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In this chapter, the authors report on their experiences as higher education faculty women of color through three narratives. They present the narratives from their perspectives as three full professors in educational leadership. In the first narrative, an African-American scholar reports on her experiences in academia. In the second narrative, a Latina scholar reports on former Latina students who are currently in school leadership positions enacting social justice leadership. In the third narrative, an Asian-American scholar reports on her current project about networking as a strategy for women of color.
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Skolnick, Jenifer A., and Emmanuel Alvarado. "Neoliberalism and the Negotiation of the American Dream in Contemporary Latina Narratives." In A Post-Neoliberal Era in Latin America?, 221–42. Policy Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529200997.003.0011.
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This chapter will examine the relationship between Christian religiosity and attitudes toward social safety-net policies over the past three decades among Latinos in the US. Over the past thirty years the US has experienced notable reductions in social safety-net coverage, in the context of successive waves of neoliberal economic reforms. This has left members of the Latino and Black community particularly vulnerable to economic cycles and downturns. Within this context, this chapter analyzes the nexus between neoliberal political discourse, potent cultural narratives found within American Christianity and public support for social protection policies. In particular, the chapter addresses the way in which Christian themes, such as the Catholic social teaching, the mainline Protestant social gospel, the American adaptation of liberation theology, and the evangelical ethos of self-reliance and independence, interact with the formation of public attitudes towards greater or lesser support for social safety-net policies among American Latinos. Additionally, the present chapter will also bring to the foreground the role of Christianity among US Latinos in the creation of an issue-bundling effect in recent electoral competition since moral or social value issues are often bundled along with opposition to social protection policies in the two-party American political system. Lastly, the present work will propose a broad framework through which to interpret our findings grounded on the existence and interaction of two counterpoised cultural narratives on social protection found within Latino American Christianity.
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Prieto, Greg. "Opportunity, Threat, and Tactics: Collaboration and Confrontation by Latino Immigrant Challengers." In Narratives of Identity in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, 123–54. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/s0163-786x20160000040005.
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Venegas, René. "Evaluation of Narrative and Expository Text Summaries Using Latent Semantic Analysis." In Applied Natural Language Processing, 531–44. IGI Global, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-741-8.ch031.
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In this chapter I approach three automatic methods for the evaluation of summaries from narrative and expository texts in Spanish. The task consisted of correlating the evaluation made by three raters for 373 summaries with results provided by latent semantic analysis. Scores assigned by latent semantic analysis were obtained by means of the following three methods: 1) Comparison of summaries with the source text, 2) Comparison of summaries with a summary approved by consensus, and 3) Comparison of summaries with three summaries constructed by three language teachers. The most relevant results are a) a high positive correlation between the evaluation made by the raters (r= 0.642); b) a high positive correlation between the computer methods (r= 0.810); and c) a moderate-high positive correlation between the evaluations of raters and the second and third LSA methods (r= 0.585 and 0,604), in summaries from narrative texts. Both methods did not differ significantly in statistical terms from the correlation among raters when the texts evaluated were predominantly narrative. These results allow us to assert that at least two holistic LSA-based methods are useful for assessing reading comprehension of narrative texts written in Spanish.
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Perry, Leah. "The Borderlines of Family Reunification." In The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration. NYU Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479828777.003.0003.
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This chapter explores the importance of family in 1980s immigration discourse. While family reunification has been the primary focus of immigration policy since 1965, in the context of the “immigration emergency,” some lawmakers viewed Asian and Latin American immigrant families as threats to American “family values” and the economy. This chapter traces backlash against multiculturalism and second-wave feminism as it arose in “family values” rhetoric. It also comparatively traces the “nation of immigrants” narrative in television shows that represented white ethnic immigrant families as industrious additions to the nation who overcame poverty with nothing but hard work. While these non-nuclear families sometimes seemed to be queer, the chapter argues that racially differentiated discourses about immigrant families reflected and created a flexible neoliberal narrative of “personal responsibility” that erased or glossed over the racial politics affecting Asian and Latin American immigrants and the global forces underscoring immigration.
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Tibble, Steve. "Interlude." In The Crusader Strategy, 141–75. Yale University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300253115.003.0006.
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This chapter introduces vocabulary in the Palestine that the crusaders found in 1099. It points out special words for a settlement whose population had fled, the gastina or khirbet, meaning a deserted village. It also relates gastina or khirbet to some of the traditional views of the crusades. The chapter focuses on the narrative which envisages Frankish rule as an oppressive regime, imposing itself on crusader states by violence or the threat of violence. It analyzes the gastinae or deserted villages as an inevitable consequence of local peasants fleeing from hated invaders. It also describes Frankish castle building within the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, which were often done during times when the level of external threat was ostensibly at its lowest.
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Egerland, Verner. "The grammaticalization of SIC." In Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance, 350–69. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198841166.003.0014.
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The Old Romance continuations of Latin sic, such as Old French si and Old Italian sì, involve four different functions, all of which are referred to here as sic. The first one, which is closest to the original Latin usage, is that of a lexical adverbial, while the other three are functional elements introducing main clauses: the second sic follows elements preposed to the verb, the third one introduces clauses in a narrative sequence of events, while the fourth usage of sic has been described as a ‘weak consequential’ (Salvi 2002) . In this article, it is shown that these instantiations of sic in Old Romance, and in particular the third one, are parallel to the grammaticalized usages of svá in Modern Scandinavian. Furthermore, it is argued that the distribution of these functional elements in Old Romance, here represented by French and Italian, as well as Modern Scandinavian, represented by Swedish, can be successfully accounted for in a theory of syntax that incorporates certain notions of ‘narrative’, building on intuitions originating in Labov (1972) and subsequent work.