Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:48:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SANDRA BARBOSA MELO.pdf: 707449 bytes, checksum: 5d6b898c38b969ddc3335248af3731e4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-02-27 / This dissertation aims to deepen understanding of the charism, particularly the Dominican, in its relation to education. From this understanding, it will be far the investigation of an educational institution guided by these characteristics. Through literature, history will be covered from the Dominican charism of the Order of Preachers, in the person of Saint Dominic. Other names within that same charism, will also be investigated, as St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Catherine of Siena, Mother Anastasie. The history of the Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of Our Lady of the Rosary of Monteils and his performance in the educational context will also compose this dissertation, as well as the context of catholic education in Brazil, more specifically in Goiás. Finally, it will examine educational practice Externato College St. Joseph catholic confessional school of the Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of Monteils of Our Lady of Rosary, the central object of this study. / Esta dissertação pretende aprofundar o entendimento do carisma, em especial, o dominicano, em sua relação com a educação. A partir desse entendimento, far-se-á a investigação de uma instituição educacional pautada nessas características. Por meio de pesquisa bibliográfica, será percorrido o histórico do carisma dominicano a partir da Ordem dos Pregadores, na pessoa de São Domingos de Gusmão. Outros nomes, dentro desse mesmo carisma, também serão pesquisados, como São Tomás de Aquino, Santa Catarina de Siena, Madre Anastasie. O histórico da Congregação das Irmãs Dominicanas de Nossa Senhora do Rosário de Monteils e de sua atuação no contexto educacional também irão compor essa dissertação, bem como a contextualização da educação católica no Brasil, mais especificamente em Goiás. Por fim, analisar-se-á a prática educativa do Colégio Externato São José, escola confessional católica da Congregação das Irmãs Dominicanas de Monteils de Nossa Senhora do Rosário, objeto central deste estudo.

Background: Compared to non-Latino whites, Latinos in the United States carry a disproportionate burden in mortality due to diabetes, chronic liver disease, and cirrhosis, and there is evidence that immigrants’ health behaviors and outcomes worsen as they become more acculturated. Additionally, the neighborhoods where Latinos live influence their health behaviors and outcomes through availability of retailers and products (such as fast food restaurants, liquor stores), density of advertising and advertisement language, and whether the neighborhood is an ethnic enclave. In this work, I examine the effects of acculturation and these built environment factors on diet, BMI, and alcohol use in Dominican Latinas, with a focus on the potential interaction between individual- and neighborhood-level variables. Methods: Dominican Latinas over 40 were recruited from target neighborhoods in northern Manhattan and western Bronx as part of a larger study, and invited to complete a survey (N=420). I used mapping software (ArcGIS) to merge this survey data with intensive street audit data collected near participants’ residences (N=229 street sides). I supplemented the neighborhood audit with data from a reliable business database (ReferenceUSA). The analytical approach differed based on the structure of each hypothesized model. For moderated mediation models, I used a percentile bootstrap to obtain model estimates and confidence intervals at different percentiles of the moderator. For models without moderated mediation, I used OLS regression, logistic regression, or Poisson GLM, depending on the distribution of the outcome. Results: When analyzing diet and BMI outcomes, I found that negative influences in the built environment (such as fast food retailer density and processed food advertising in English and Spanish) were associated with higher BMI, but only in the least acculturated participants in the sample. There were no significant effects of positive influences in the built environment (such as fresh food retailers and fresh food advertisements) at any level of acculturation. For alcohol outcomes, less acculturated participants were less likely to report drinking, and this effect was strongest among those with greater alcohol retailer density near their residences. Number of Latino owned businesses (a measure of whether an area is an ethnic enclave) was sometimes protective and other times detrimental, depending on participant acculturation and the specific outcome measured. Conclusions: There is evidence that less acculturated Latinas are more susceptible to negative influences of the built environment than their more acculturated counterparts, and have higher BMIs due to these contextual factors. However, lower acculturation may be protective for alcohol outcomes. The effects of ethnic enclave neighborhoods on health are complex and dependent on both individual-level acculturation and the specific outcome investigated. The findings in this work highlight the importance of considering individual and contextual factors concurrently when modeling health behaviors and outcomes in Latinos.

Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-359) and index.

This dissertation examines how Dominicans of Haitian descent navigate their political situation from two perspectives: by becoming aware of their precarious legal status in Dominican Republic, and in how they obtain their legal documents or papeles with the assistance of third parties like the NGOs (Valdez 2014, Barlett et al 2011). I argue that the cyclical human rights violations, othering, and discriminatory experiences that Dominicans of Haitian descent have experienced in the past 15 years have exacerbated an eroded notion of the state and created a sense of Black Fatigue (Winters 2020) among the community. Primarily, as it pertains to the state being able to guarantee basic rights and providing an irreconcilable experience of citizenship for youth who were rendered stateless in their own country, and a defined experience of Black Fatigue that permeates their interactions both with non-governmental organizations and the state. I employ the framework of structural violence from Paul Farmer to contextualize how Black Fatigue has emerged among this community and discuss the ways in which Dominicans of Haitian descent have been disenfranchised as an extension of the abuses against Haitian immigrants in the country, and how this has extended to their understanding and experience of citizenship being born Dominicans and then rendered stateless. I examine the "sticky citizenship" process through which they were rendered foreigners in their own country by the Dominican government, and how they have thought and reevaluated their belonging through constructing narratives around their process of obtaining citizenship over the past five years. I used a mixed methods approach in which I collected data between 2015 and 2019, over 20 months (about one and a half years) total of fieldwork. During the academic year of 2018-2019 I lived in Santo Domingo, and most of the interviews and all the focus groups were conducted in that timeframe. I transcribed all the focus groups (over 25 hours of recordings, both in video and audio) and the interviews (totaling more than 30 hours over video and audio) and identified themes and threads among NGO representatives, Dominicans of Haitian descent, and the larger groups. Ultimately, my work poses that obtaining documents is far from solving the issues of this population which has come of age during a trying time, but that the issues of racism and discrimination that are at the core of the statelessness dispute could be better addressed through the work of some of the organizations and turned into sustainable development and empowerment for this community in the future. / Anthropology

O presente estudo pretende analisar de que forma o filme Batismo de Sangue (2006), do cineasta Helvécio Ratton, contribui para retomar e ampliar a memória sobre a oposição à ditadura militar desempenhada pelos frades dominicanos do convento de Perdizes, em São Paulo, nas décadas de 1960 e 1970. Nosso objetivo é explicar qual o papel dos chamados frades pregadores naquele período e como eles se envolveram com o líder comunista Carlos Marighella (1911-1969), criador da Ação Libertadora Nacional (ALN). Antes de proceder à análise do filme e discutir as condições em que foi produzido, dedicaremos alguns capítulos à descrição da história da Ordem dos Dominicanos, do embate entre as alas conservadora e progressista da Igreja Católica brasileira ao longo do século XX e à biografia de Carlos Marighella. A análise do filme Batismo de Sangue é o assunto da segunda parte deste estudo. / This work aims to examine how the Brazilian film Batismo de Sangue (2006), directed by Helvécio Ratton, contributes to resume and to expand the memory of the opposition to military dictatorship exercised by the Dominican Friars of the Perdizes Monastery, in Sao Paulo (Brazil) in the 60\'s and in the 70\'s. For that, the goal is to explain the role of the so-called friars preachers during this period, showing how they got involved with the Communist leader Carlos Marighella (1911-1969), founder of the Ação Libertadora Nacional (ALN). Before proceeding with the movie analysis and discussing the conditions under which it was produced, some chapters will be devoted to describing the history of the Order of Dominicans as well as the clash between the conservative and the progressive wings of the Brazilian Catholic Church during the twentieth century. There will also be the biography of Carlos Marighella. The analysis of the film Batismo de Sangue is the subject of the second part of this study.

O presente estudo pretende analisar de que forma o filme Batismo de Sangue (2006), do cineasta Helvécio Ratton, contribui para retomar e ampliar a memória sobre a oposição à ditadura militar desempenhada pelos frades dominicanos do convento de Perdizes, em São Paulo, nas décadas de 1960 e 1970. Nosso objetivo é explicar qual o papel dos chamados frades pregadores naquele período e como eles se envolveram com o líder comunista Carlos Marighella (1911-1969), criador da Ação Libertadora Nacional (ALN). Antes de proceder à análise do filme e discutir as condições em que foi produzido, dedicaremos alguns capítulos à descrição da história da Ordem dos Dominicanos, do embate entre as alas conservadora e progressista da Igreja Católica brasileira ao longo do século XX e à biografia de Carlos Marighella. A análise do filme Batismo de Sangue é o assunto da segunda parte deste estudo. / This work aims to examine how the Brazilian film Batismo de Sangue (2006), directed by Helvécio Ratton, contributes to resume and to expand the memory of the opposition to military dictatorship exercised by the Dominican Friars of the Perdizes Monastery, in Sao Paulo (Brazil) in the 60\'s and in the 70\'s. For that, the goal is to explain the role of the so-called friars preachers during this period, showing how they got involved with the Communist leader Carlos Marighella (1911-1969), founder of the Ação Libertadora Nacional (ALN). Before proceeding with the movie analysis and discussing the conditions under which it was produced, some chapters will be devoted to describing the history of the Order of Dominicans as well as the clash between the conservative and the progressive wings of the Brazilian Catholic Church during the twentieth century. There will also be the biography of Carlos Marighella. The analysis of the film Batismo de Sangue is the subject of the second part of this study.

This dissertation examines politics and poetics of food, memory and ‘home’ among Dominican immigrants in New York City. Through a framework of ‘foodmaps’ it traces cultural histories of seven Dominican families from the gendered perspectives of the cooks in each household. Examining translocal food paths reveal the crucial role of migrant food relations in gendered production of home, place-making and community formations. ‘Migrant seasonings’ (the way immigrants season their foods and lives and the way they are ‘seasoned’ into new social relations) could be understood as contested sites of power negotiations, as strategic reclamation of ‘small measures of autonomy’, sociopolitical action, and historical visibility. Dominican foodmaps respond to culturally and historically specific ‘roots’ and ‘routes’ shared with other Afro-diasporic populations in the Americas. Food-place-memory becomes hence a continuum between geopolitical ‘seasonings’ in sending societies and new racializations in the US. Some findings of this project are: 1) food paid-unpaid labor are critical in negotiations of labor-time, places and social relations within households and in relation to the City and US state; 2) food is a key mediation for the way Dominican migrants learn to navigate and orient themselves in new environments; 3) cooking practices are inseparable from the narrative memories that give them meaning, constituting complex memory-work strategies, communicative and expressive means; 3) Food practices are crucial for the way cooks (especially women) claim value and autonomy for their life projects, produce senses of ‘home’, and re-inscribe through food-narratives their migrant history of struggles in Dominican Republic and the U.S. Basic contributions of this work are: 1) filling gaps in critical ethnographic research on food, gender and migration in Dominican and Caribbean studies; 2) development of a ‘foodmaps’ framework (a method-analytic frame to trace boundaries of ‘home’ through food relations); 3) examining food practices beyond ‘ethnic foodways’ tradition and nostalgia, but instead as critical and traumatic place-memory sites of implicit resistance, and as narrative spaces that re-inscribe working-class histories into hegemonic national narratives; 4) problematizing notions of private/public, personal/collective, memory/history in Afro-Caribbean socio-cultural formations; and 5) ‘native’ ethnography usage of interdisciplinary feminist, collaborative and media-based methodologies. / text

The integration of immigrants into host societies has been a topic of longstanding interest in the sociology of migration, whereas the study of transnationalism has only emerged in the last few years. Globalization, fueled by the rapid development of transportation and communication technologies, has been one of the principal factors in the rise of transnationalism. The aim of this study is to clarify the links between the immigrants' integration into the host society and the transnational activities in which they get involved. / The initial hypothesis of this study was that immigrants' involvement in narrow transnational activities is linked to their weaker integration into Quebec society. To test this hypothesis, a series of interviews was conducted with members of the Dominican community of Montreal. These Dominicans were involved in varying levels of transnational activities within political, economic, and cultural spheres. The interviews were aimed at determining the integration process experienced by the different interviewees. / The results of this study showed, in contrast to the hypothesized predictions, that involvement in transnational activities was not linked to lesser levels of integration. In fact, the Dominicans involved in the most intensive transnational activities revealed a capacity to integrate into the receiving society as easily as other Dominicans, often showing a greater dynamism in their integration. Involvement in intensive transnational activities seems to show a capacity on the part of some immigrants to grow and develop in two universes at the same time, that of the receiving and that of the sending society.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed October 4, 2007). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-245).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2007. / "UMI Number: 3274592." includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-245).