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A boot camp translation of Alzheimer's disease in Hispanic/Latino communities. [PDF]

Alzheimers Dement (N Y), 2023
Abstract Introduction Hispanics/Latinos (H/Ls) are significantly underrepresented in Alzheimer's disease (AD) research participant samples. This exclusion limits our interpretation of research findings and understanding of the causes of brain health disparities.
Medina LD, Woods SP, Mullen R, John SE, Kunik M, Pressman P, Moeller S, Martinez M, Arroyo Miranda M, Stocker M, Lopez-Esquibel N, Vardeman J.   +11 more
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'How Did That Make You Feel?' Latinas' Use of Genetic Counseling and Testing for Hereditary Cancer Risk After Watching a Culturally Targeted Video and Receiving Patient Navigation. [PDF]

Psychooncology
ABSTRACT Objective Culturally targeted narrative education is a promising approach to cancer prevention and control. This study evaluates the uptake of genetic counseling and testing (GCT) in Latinas at risk for hereditary breast and ovarian cancers (HBOC) after watching a culturally targeted narrative video and being navigated to GCT services ...
Gómez-Trillos S, Carrera P, Caballero A, Sheppard VB, Graves KD, Peshkin BN, Schwartz MD, Campos C, Garcés N, Mendoza AH.   +9 more
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“For the planet. For home”: Generating planetary responsibility in the climate fiction of Los Angeles

Literature Compass, Volume 20, Issue 10-12, October-December 2023., 2023
Abstract This article argues that three prominent recent works of Los Angeles climate fiction—Maria Amparo Escandon's L.A. Weather (2021), Alexandra Kleeman's Something New Under the Sun (2021) and Paul Beatty's The Sellout (2016)—generate a sense of planetary responsibility.
Edwin Gilson
wiley   +1 more source

‘He who relies on relatives and friends die poor’: class closure and stratagems of civility in peri‐urban Kenya

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 326-346, June 2023., 2023
Abstract Africanist anthropology has tended to paint social relations on the continent in a positive light, giving the impression that a pro‐social relationality will provide the poor with economic assistance in moments of need. This article troubles these accounts by turning to Kenya, where a history of socioeconomic stratification has created a ...
Peter Lockwood
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Teenage Pregnancy and Neoliberal Subjectivity in Mexican Television Series La Rosa de Guadalupe

Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 67-80, January 2023., 2023
This article examines teenage pregnancy narratives in Televisa's La Rosa de Guadalupe, Mexico's most‐watched television programme. Adolescent pregnancy in Mexico is considered a pressing social and political challenge, cutting across broader efforts by the state to regulate population growth and lower maternal morbidity during the second half of the ...
Rebecca Ogden
wiley   +1 more source

Preventing intimate partner violence among foreign‐born Latinx mothers through relationship education during nurse home visiting

Journal of Nursing Management, Volume 30, Issue 6, Page 1639-1647, September 2022., 2022
Abstract Aims This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of an augmented home visiting programme in preventing intimate partner violence among Latinx mothers by nativity. Background Intimate partner violence diminishes home visit programmes' effectiveness.
Qing Li, Fernando Riosmena, Patricia A. Valverde, Shuo Zhou, Claudia Amura, Kerry A. Peterson, Vincent J. Palusci, Lynette Feder   +7 more
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Swap It on WhatsApp: The Moral Economy of Informal Online Exchange Networks in Contemporary Cuba

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 1-2, Page 80-100, June 2022., 2022
Abstract The inhabitants of Cuba's capital, Havana, are using semipublic group chats on messaging applications such as WhatsApp and Telegram to access food, hygiene products, medication, and other basic necessities during times of scarcity. This has been especially prevalent during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Such chat groups created digital spaces in which
Steffen Köhn, Nestor Siré
wiley   +1 more source

Beauty and Translation: The Analytical Purchase of Diaspora for the Study of the Venezuelan Migration Crisis

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although there is a burgeoning scholarship on the Venezuelan migration crisis, few of these studies critically engage with diaspora thought. This article draws on Ipek Demir's conceptualisation of diaspora as translation to explore the analytical purchase of the concept for understanding Venezuelan displacement.
Francisco Llinas Casas
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Another Four Women: AfroCubana Entrepreneurs as Womanist Praxis

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article is focused on four Black women entrepreneurs in Cuba's lucrative bed and breakfast home‐based tourism economy, asking: (1) what intersectional factors facilitated their entrepreneurial enterprises, (2) how they conceptualize success, and (3) how their narratives illuminate patterns involving gendered race in the country's ...
L. Kaifa Roland
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Unforgettable: The power of community in the pursuit of health equity for Alzheimer's disease and other dementia

Alzheimer's &Dementia: Translational Research &Clinical Interventions, Volume 12, Issue 1, January/March 2026.
Abstract INTRODUCTION The lack of racial/ethnic and socioeconomic diversity in research is an historic and ongoing crisis, especially for diseases like Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), whose prevalence, incidence, and risk are highest among the populations most likely to be excluded.
Beverly M. Berry, Garrett Davis, Yarissa Reyes, Edie Yau, Lauren Stratton, Monica Emery, Carl Hill   +6 more
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