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Ethnobotany of Mexican and northern Central American cycads (Zamiaceae)

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2019
Background This study documents cycad-human relationships in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras over the last 6000 years. The impetus was acute need for a better understanding of previously undocumented uses of cycads in this region ...
Mark Bonta, María Teresa Pulido-Silva, Teresa Diego-Vargas, Aurelia Vite-Reyes, Andrew P. Vovides, Angélica Cibrián-Jaramillo   +5 more
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“La culpa es de los tlaxcaltecas”: Gender, the Burden of Blame, and a Re-examination of the Myth of La Malinche [PDF]

, 2018
This paper explores Elena Garro’s short story “La culpa es de los tlaxcaltecas.” Supplementing close readings with analyses drawn from relevant authors and theorists, I highlight the key ideas regarding gender, identity, memory, and history that Garro ...
Lanza, Erin M.
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Clinical features of alcoholic hepatitis in latinos and caucasians: A single center experience. [PDF]

, 2017
AimTo study differences of presentation, management, and prognosis of alcoholic hepatitis in Latinos compared to Caucasians.MethodsWe retrospectively screened 876 charts of Caucasian and Latino patients who were evaluated at University of California ...
Durbin-Johnson, Blythe, Halsted, Charles H, Medici, Valentina, Pinon-Gutierrez, Rogelio   +3 more
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Phylogenomics reveals the evolution of floral traits associated with pollinators and pollinator–prey conflict within the carnivorous Pinguicula subgenus Temnoceras

American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise The carnivorous plant genus Pinguicula (Lentibulariaceae) exhibits remarkable floral diversity associated with pollination, particularly in the largest subgenus Temnoceras, which spans Mexico and Central America. Despite this diversity, the relationships between species and the evolution of key floral traits remain unresolved. Here, we
Yunjia Liu, Qianshi Lin, Steven J. Fleck, Martín Mata‐Rosas, Enrique Ibarra‐Laclette, Tanya Renner   +5 more
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Review of Claudio Lomnitz' Book The Return of Comrade Flores Magón,

New Proposals, 2018
Ricardo Flores Magón was one of the main liberal intellectual and political precursors of the 1910 Mexican Revolution. He represented a very important current of thought among those fighting for the still unfulfilled ideals of the Mexican liberal ...
Olivia J Gall
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Dialogue between Language and Literature: A dialogical analysis of Gloria Anzaldúa’s El Sonavabitche and its implications

Calidoscópio, 2016
This article aims at discussing the role linguistic studies play in literary studies based on the theoretical framework of the Circle (Bakhtin, Voloshinov, and Medvedev) and the implications in undergraduate English Language Teacher Education Programs of
Orison Marden Bandeira de Melo Junior
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Ethnic Identity, Risk, and Protective Factors Related to Substance Abuse Among Mexican American Students [PDF]

, 2001
This study examines the relationship between ethnic identity, risk and protective factors for substance use and academic achievement. Risk factors include deviant behavior and susceptibility to peer influence, while the protective factor is self-reported
Codina, Edward, Katims, David S., Yin, Zenong, Zapata, Jesse T.   +3 more
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Assimilation into the literary mainstream? The classification of ethnic minority authors in newspaper reviews in the United States, the Netherlands and Germany [PDF]

, 2014
This article addresses to what extent literary critics in the United States, the Netherlands and Germany have drawn ethnic boundaries in their reviews of ethnic minority writers between 1983 and 2009 and to what extent these boundaries have changed in ...
Berkers, P.P.L. (Pauwke), Janssen, M.S.S.E. (Susanne), Verboord, M.N.M. (Marc)   +2 more
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Facilitators and barriers to neighborhood social integration

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Social isolation has reached concerning rates, particularly in the wake of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Social integration is critical to combatting social isolation and loneliness by promoting a sense of community and belonging. Yet, most existing research centers on fostering close personal relationships within family and friend networks.
Joelle Fuchs, Deena Shariq, Emily Yang, Giselle Maya, Taylor L. Wilds, Collin W. Mueller, Arianna M. Gard   +6 more
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Tijuana Transa: Transa as Metaphor and Theory on the US–Mexico Border

Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2016
This essay explores the varied potential of “transa” as a new metaphor to describe the US–Mexico borderlands in the twenty-first century and the formal transactions used in the photo-textual essay Here Is Tijuana! (2006).
Jennifer A. Reimer
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