Image from AP What is driving high suicide rates amongst Latina teenagers? Latina teenagers have one of the highest rates of suicide among teens in the United States. In many cases they share a common thread: they are first-generation Americans with immigrant parents – and they find themselves caught between old traditions and their American […]
¿Qué Onda? Urban Youth Culture and Border Identity By Cynthia L. Bejarano Angel was born in Arizona and is part of the in-crowd. She likes clubbing, dancing, and going to car shows. Betzayra is from Mexico City and, despite polio-related disabilities, is the confident group leader of the Mexican girls. Arturo is also from Mexico […]
Free photo source: https://pixabay.com/en/girl-against-the-wall-girl-portrait-1996988/ There’s no winning, because “no soy de aquí, ni soy de allá.” Luckily, I no longer feel like I have to prove my identity to anyone. Because being Latina is a multidimensional experience. I love my Puerto Rican roots, but I’m also not ashamed that I’ve acculturated into American society. And […]
More mental health providers are customizing treatment for young Latinas, taking into consideration cultural pressures. (Image source: Gett Images/Adriana Varela Photography) When Norma Villalobos, 34, was a teen, she felt like she didn’t fit in. Her parents were born in Mexico … Read More Source: Culturally sensitive mental health treatments for young Latinas that work
What it Means to be Latino It’s more complicated than you think. What does it mean to be Latino? We asked writer Ruben Martinez, UCLA linguistics professor Otto Santa Ana, and Fordham University sociologist Clara Rodriguez to address that question. In the essays that follow, you’ll find that their answers were all very different. Source: […]
AN INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN STUDIES AND CREATIVE WRITING Real Women Have Curves, the 2002 film based on Josefina López’s two act play, politicizes the female form by strategically exposing and subverting dominant ideals about body image. López takes the overweight form, so often marginalized (like the immigrant) by society and popular culture, and redefines this […]
To what culture would Latinas’ suicidal ideations and attempts be bound? “Is Culture To Blame for High Latina Suicide Attempt Rates?” This is the actual title of an article published by NewsTaco, a Latino online source which provides innovative and insightful news, critique, analysis, and opinions. The headline of the article is significant as […]
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/magazine/10psyche-t.html In recent years, American ideas about psychiatric disorders have spread around the globe. Is that really good for the world’s mental health? Source: The Americanization of Mental Illness – The New York Times
Is America’s social fabric corrupting immigrants? Source: Is America’s Social Fabric Corrupting Immigrants? – The New York Times
Image source: Flickr Brown University – “The Immigrant Paradox” NY Times columnist David Brooks asks: Are new immigrants wrecking the social fabric of the United States? Or is it the other way around? Is America corrupting them instead? Back in 2010, researchers from Brown University have noticed that first generation immigrant children generally outperform second […]