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European and Global North perspectives have historically dominated the fields of dance, education, and human research, ignoring, erasing, oppressing, and exoticizing the Latinx dancing body. A lack of visibility prevents Latinx students from envisioning themselves in these predominantly non-Latinx spaces, creating barriers to their success in dance and education. While Latinx dance organizations exist dedicated to celebrating and visibilizing Latinx identity and cultural practices in k-12 dance programs, a gap regarding these practices exists in dance education scholarship. Ballet Hispánico provides a premiere example of such an organization through its Community Arts Partnership program (CAP), which focuses on what I propose can be described as culturally responsive-sustaining dance pedagogy (CRSDP). My proposed CRSDP draws on scholarship from culturally responsive therapy for Latinx populations, Latina/Chicana feminism, and progressive pedagogies to prescribe a dance teaching practice centering on Latinx students’ heritage and local cultural practices while aiming toward decolonization and humanization through the study of non-dominant dance forms. This case study explores the lifelong experiences of teaching artists who worked in the CAP programs to provide a concrete example of CRSDP, privileging participants’ stories and pressing against dominant Eurocentric and Global North perspectives in research. Teaching artists’ ancestral lineages represented Afro Caribbean, Indigenous, and Latinx Peoples. Research methods included individual interviews, classroom observations, follow-up pláticas, and an asynchronous embodied testimonio project. Pláticas and embodied testimonios were culturally sensitive and specific methods countering dominant perspectives in research that disconnect from the Latinx experience. Findings are presented in a magical realism novela and include a short, embedded dance video, making them more accessible to a general population within a format grounded in the Latinx dance experience. Earlier and subsequent chapters are unconventionally labeled foreword, preface, process, and epilogue to privilege the novela and participant stories. The novela shares experiences along CAP teaching artists’ lifelong journeys as dancers and educators that have led to their commitments to teaching within a CRSDP framework. Emerging from the novela, I argue that (a) decolonizing and humanizing dance pedagogy for Latinx students should incorporate universal themes and shared sociopolitical histories while recognizing the intersectionality of diverse Latinx identities, and (b) that research conducted within Latinx communities should incorporate culturally sensitive and specific methods.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Hispanics are more likely to die from breast cancer compared to non - Hispanic whites matched on stage and age at diagnosis. Higher mortality rates among Hispanics are attributed to cancer - related disparities across the cancer continuum including later - stage detection. While research has shown that socioeconomic factors play a significant role in the development and maintenance of cancer - related disparities, differences persist when these factors are controlled. Thus far, research on cultural factors and cognitions surrounding cancer is limited. The current study investigated illness representations of cancer and their determinants among Hispanic men and women (N = 120) using a cross - sectional survey approach. The study sample was comprised of predominantly first generation, employed Hispanic women in their early - thirties from Mexico. Most had not resided in the U.S. for more than 5 - 9 years. Half of the sample reported an annual income of $20,001 - $30,000 and completing at least a middle school education. While the majority indicated that they did not have health insurance, most indicated that they did have a regular source of health care. Additionally, while most had not been diagnosed with cancer, nearly half of the sample knew of someone diagnosed with cancer. Descriptive data regarding illness identity, illness coherence, timeline, causes, consequences, and controllability are provided. Results suggest that demographic factors (i.e. acculturation, education, and income), cultural constructs (i.e. fatalism and familism), intrapersonal factors (state and trait anxiety), and previous experience with cancer were associated with illness representations of breast cancer. The study adds to theliterature by systematically investigate illness representations of breast cancer and their determinants among a diverse sample of Hispanic men and women. This is a significant first step that can be used to guide and develop effective and culturally appropriate interventions that ultimately reduce disparities across the cancer continuum.

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The underachievement of African American and Hispanic students has been an ongoing problem for schools in the United States. The purpose of this investigation was to add to the existing body of knowledge concerning social capital of African American and Hispanic high school students’ academic achievement. Using a nationally representative sample from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS: 2002), base year through the first follow-up year database, 551 high school students, the researcher assessed indicators (school-sponsored activities, out-of-school activities, and parental involvement) within the construct of social capital, to see whether social capital could serve as a predictor of academic achievement among African American and Hispanic high school students. Data were analyzed through Repeated Measures analysis and Multiple Regression analysis controlling for gender, race, and socioeconomic status. The main effects revealed a statistically significant difference between the social capital factors in school-sponsored activities, out-of- school activities, and parent involvement. The results showed an increase in the first follow-up year. Socio-economic status, race and gender were statistically significant social capital factors. Females and African Americans were found to have higher levels of social capital in school-sponsored activities. Out-of- school activities revealed males had higher levels of social capital. Parent involvement indicators showed that female and Hispanic students were affected by social capital. Differences in math scores revealed an increase in the first follow-up year, showing males outscored iv females. Also, Hispanic students’ scores were higher than African American students. Finally, the strongest predictors for academic achievement were gender, race, and participation in school sponsored activity in the base year and first follow-up year. In addition, parent involvement was also found to be a strong predictor of achievement in the follow-up year.

Given the public health crisis of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in childhood and adolescence, and the potential lifelong repercussions, this study sought to identify significant predictors of a high self-rating for having experienced ACEs in childhood/adolescence with Hispanic/Latinx adults (n=292) with 55.8% female and 81.5% U.S. born with a mean age of 33 years. Some 52.5% presented moderately high to extremely high levels of race-related stress due to being Hispanic/Latinx; 63.6% experienced moderate to very severe toxic stress in childhood/adolescence and, 66.1% in the past year; 82.6% reported depression, 87% anxiety, and 86.2% trauma during childhood/adolescence; and, 83.1% reported depression, 89.7% anxiety, and 81.1% trauma for the past year. The study introduced the Knowledge of Adverse Childhood Experiences Survey (KACES-20) finding a moderate level of knowledge with deficits regarding how ACEs in childhood/adolescence can place individuals at risk later in life for type 2 diabetes, cancer, and high blood pressure. An ACEs video was included in the study with over 90% recommending the KACES-20 and ACEs video to others; and, together these brief online e-health interventions were associated with significant increases in knowledge of ACEs and self-efficacy for the ability to recognize ACEs in children/adolescents. After taking the KACES-20 and watching the ACEsvideo, 94.6% revealed experiencing ACEs during childhood/adolescence. Having more severe experiences of ACEs was significantly predicted by male gender, higher race-related stress due to being Hispanic/Latinx, higher toxic stress in childhood/adolescence, higher mental distress in childhood/adolescence and the past year, and a higher KACES-20 score. Findings highlight the value of the KACES-20 and ACEs video as brief online e-health interventions, and the important contribution of a new methodology for investigating experiences of ACEs in childhood/adolescence without causing discomfort or re-traumatization. These findings have particular value as contributions to the literature, while focusing on the neglected Hispanic/Latinx population, especially at this historic time of a pandemic and post-pandemic era when ACEs have risen; and, there is an urgent need for tools for prevention and intervention. This study has provided evidence for using the KACES-20 and ACEs video, as well as the study measures for prevention and future research.

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