archives@tulane.edu / This 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. / 1 / Thomas D Lewis

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archives@tulane.edu / This thesis analyzes submission-oriented Latina/o zines based in South Texas. Each publication circulates nationally and internationally, featuring artistic submissions from this network. Through three case studies, this thesis investigates zines’ roles in forming spaces, both discursive and physical, for feminist, queer, Latina/o identity-making. The three case studies of South Texas-based zines are: St. Sucia, founded by Isabel Ann Castro and Natasha I. Hernandez in San Antonio, Texas (2014), Muchacha Fanzine, founded by Daisy Salinas in San Antonio, Texas (2012), and ChingoZine, in Austin, Texas (2012). These collaborative zines challenge the celebrated individualism of the modern artist by privileging a collective platform over the individual voice. The editors of these zines weave together submitted multimedia works—written, photographed, painted, drawn—into a curated selection that exhibits an alternative artistic network. These zines exemplify key aspects of contemporary artistic production: they are collectively authored, privilege lived experience over artistic training, and foreground alternate personal narratives. These works thus reshape the art historical narrative of U.S. contemporary art away from largely white, largely male, New York-based artists working in a succession of trends (Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Neo Geo, Appropriation, etc.). Instead, these zines foreground queer, female, artists of color whose work brings historical Latina artistic and punk subcultures in dialogue with contemporary political commitments to revising art history. As objects of study, a zine-focused approach for an art historical analysis calls attention to the alternative approaches to artmaking and understanding of art. The creators, contributors, and readers of these works hold many roles, thus the zines themselves become avenues through which to understand the social role of artmaking. These zines disorder archival divisions to reinterpret contemporary art of the U.S. as already transnational, as already inflected by feminist thinking, and as overtly queer. / 1 / Mia Isabella Uribe Kozlovsky

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abstract: Relative to their heterosexual peers, sexual minority youth experience significant mental health disparities. This, in part, is due to prejudicial encounters (e.g., discrimination, victimization) because of their sexual minority status, and potential compounding stressors from prejudicial experiences related to their ethnic minority status, which could lead to worse mental health outcomes due to intersecting minority stress processes. Surprisingly, even though religiosity has been identified as a protective factor in the general literature for adolescents and young adults, few studies have examined whether religiosity serves as a potential buffer of the relations between stress and mental health outcomes in sexual minority Latinx youth. Thus, the goals of this study were to examine: (1) whether ethnic discrimination and sexuality discrimination have additive or interactive effects on depressive symptoms, and (2) whether self or family religiosity moderate the relations between discrimination and depressive symptoms, in a sample of 377 sexual minority Latinx youth (Mage = 20.29, SD = 2.61, age range 14-24). Results showed that there was no interactive effect between ethnic discrimination and sexuality discrimination in predicting depressive symptoms. There was a significant interaction between own religiosity and sexuality discrimination in predicting depressive symptoms, in which own religiosity was negatively associated with depressive symptoms only at low level of sexuality discrimination. No significant interaction emerged between own religiosity and ethnic discrimination. Finally, there were significant interactive effects between family religiosity and discrimination (ethnic and sexuality), in which family religiosity was negatively associated with depressive symptoms only at average and low level of discrimination. These findings highlight the importance of examining the intersection of religion, sexuality, and Latinx minority status in relation to mental health outcome. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Psychology 2020

This literature-based thesis aimed to evaluate the relationship between gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and the Latinx community. The Latinx community is one of the groups most affected by GDM in the United States of America. Latinx patients have higher prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) and excessive gestational weight gain (GWG), the two main risk factors for developing GDM. The occurrence of GDM increases the risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes and early onset type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM) postpartum. For the fetus, GDM increases the risk of hypoglycemia and hyperinsulinemia, both of which can affect the long-term metabolic health. Current treatments of GDM in Latinx patients focus on lifestyle intervention through diet and exercise, an action that proves to be effective in this population. Enhanced GDM care that includes pregnancy health education in a group setting significantly improves birth outcomes. Advanced screening utilizing biomarkers and more accessible diagnostic tools is recommended for improving GDM treatment in Latinx patients. Finally, pregnancy studies on GDM should adequately represent the Latinx population among participants. Although this thesis analyzed GDM in the Latinx community and offered solutions for the disproportionate adverse pregnancy outcomes, these results may also be applicable to other racially and ethnically diverse populations.

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Thesis advisor: Ana Martínez Alemán / Persistent critiques regarding the lack of racial diversity in higher education have sparked institutions to implement an array of diversity programs and policies. In concert, states have crafted policies mandating the benchmarking and reporting of institutional diversity efforts. These policies have resulted in the development of institutional reports that both monitor an institution's efforts and highlight aspirations. The increased focus on diversity has occurred within the landscape of shifting institutional diversity. The diversification of institution type is exemplified by the growth in Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), which in the past 20 years, have doubled and grown to educate over 60 percent of Latinx students (Galdeano, Hurtado, & Núñez, 2015). This dissertation considers unaddressed questions regarding diversity discourse within diversity plans and key institutional artifacts HSIs. Specifically, it examines the characterizations of racial diversity, how the discourse of race informs campus framing of Latinx students as raced subjects, and how policy problems and solutions are constructed within these institutions. Engaging critical discourse analysis, this study examines the diversity, equity, or inclusion report at 24 public institutions located in three distinct policy environments - Florida, New York, and California. Through a critical race theory framework, this work explores the discourse of racial diversity at these institutions. Key finding from this study includes the ways in which the diversity plans serve to both lay a foundation for a shared definition of diversity but, in so doing, advance the erasure and essentialization of various identities resulting in a narrow characterization of Latinx. Additionally, the research illustrates how institutions leverage their HSI identity for financial gains. Given the national discourse of advancing racial diversity in higher education, this research presents findings on the current landscape as well as provides recommendations for practitioners aiming to promote the construction of diversity policy that can deliver on this agenda. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2020. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Educational Leadership and Higher Education.