Thesis advisor: Ana Martinez-Aleman / Abstract Black and Latino men have the lowest college enrollment rates among traditional college-aged students. Using a qualitative method, this study examined first-year students' perceptions of factors that influenced their plans to pursue a college education and actual enrollment. The factors this study explored were family support activities as defined by the Hossler college choice model and college aspirations factors. Currently, the experiences of first-year black and Latino men enrolled at four-year postsecondary institutions have been limited. These firsthand accounts will provide useful information to guidance counselors, school and university administrators, and policy makers interested in increasing the number of black and Latino men at four-year colleges and universities. The literature on college enrollment shows that black and Latino men have the lowest enrollment rates of all college-aged students. The college choice literature suggests that family support activities such as saving for college, visiting colleges, and attending a financial aid workshop all are influential in students' decision to enroll at a postsecondary institution. In addition, the literature on college aspirations shows that factors such as family encouragement, peers, and schools can either aid or hinder a student's plans to go to college. Yet, Hossler's college choice model and the college aspirations literature usually do not explain the college enrollment decisions of black and Latino men. In particular, a specific aim of this study is to investigate whether the college choice and college aspirations literatures' conclusions hold true for black and Latino men. In addition, this study explores whether participants' decisions to enroll are influenced by gender expectations. The results of this study were examined using a critical theory lens. The study's findings reveal that black and Latino men's college enrollment decisions are influenced in much the same ways as those of other high-school students. Parents provided the foundation along with early academic success that instilled ideas about the benefits of a college education and supported the attainment of that goal. Furthermore, participants rejected negative stereotypes associated with men of color and saw the pursuit of a postsecondary education as a challenge to these common beliefs. These findings show that men of color's college enrollment decisions are impacted by parents as well as multivariate factors that work to sustain their college enrollment goals. This information can provide school and college administrators as well as policymakers with strategies that could successfully address the problem of college transition and access for this population. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2009. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Educational Administration and Higher Education.

Thesis advisor: Thanh V. Tran / Diabetes management is a major part of treatment but many ethnic/racial minorities with type 2 diabetes do not make the needed adjustment. A key component of healthcare access is health acculturation, defined as a level of success in navigating the mainstream healthcare system. The overall goal of this study is to develop a measure of health acculturation and examine its relationship with diabetes management across several ethnic minority groups in the US. The first purpose is to investigate the relationship between health acculturation and type 2 diabetes management behaviors in a sample of foreign-born Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean and Latino adults. The second purpose is to assess ethnic differences by testing the interaction between health acculturation and ethnicity on diabetes management behaviors. Merged dataset from CHIS 2009 and 2011-2 were used for analysis. Multiple and logistic regression analysis revealed that those with high health acculturation skills performed more diabetes management than their counterparts. Latinos performed better than all Asian subgroups on most diabetes management behaviors regardless of the level of health acculturation. The study has implications for social workers and healthcare providers working with ethnic and minority populations. The results suggest that the health acculturation measure would be a good screening tool to identify immigrant populations who will most benefit from health intervention within the culture of western medicine. In addition, the results help to identify specific skills and tools needed by social workers and healthcare providers to better serve these populations. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2015. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Social Work. / Discipline: Social Work.

Este trabalho foi dividido em duas partes, por se tratar de uma pesquisa em que assuntos se complementam sem abrir mão de sua importância individual. Estes assuntos são a figura da pianista Beatriz Balzi e a música erudita latino-americana para piano. Seus caminhos se cruzam em 1984, ano em que Beatriz Balzi iniciou uma série de gravações deste repertório, registrando peças compostas entre 1898 e 1997 em uma coleção de CDs intitulada Compositores Latino-americanos. Uma vasta gama de técnicas, estilos e procedimentos composicionais foram exemplificados por Beatriz Balzi nas 54 peças de sua série de CDs. Oriundas de 13 países, tais composições testemunham a formação do patrimônio cultural deste continente, no período em que o mesmo lutava para ser reconhecido por suas características próprias. Esta conclusão emerge da análise realizada sobre as partituras utilizadas pela pianista em suas gravações, unida ao estudo dos encartes que acompanham os CDs, à audição dos mesmos e às entrevistas com compositores gravados. Um panorama histórico resumido da música erudita do século XX foi formulado para contextualizar este repertório. Por sua vez, a biografia de Beatriz Balzi e a dissertação sobre sua trajetória na confecção da série Compositores Latino-americanos, material inédito e peculiar na década em que foi criado, levantam a seguinte questão: por que teria a pianista se empenhado em tal tarefa, em vez de abraçar um repertório mais acessível a si mesma e ao público? A resposta que ecoa é a militância pela valorização da música destes autores e deles próprios, além da luta pela aproximação dos povos deste continente através do conhecimento mútuo. Embora este tipo de pesquisa tenha atraído a atenção de músicos e estudiosos do século XXI, a música erudita latino-americana foi sempre relegada ao segundo plano no universo da música de concerto ocidental. A série de Beatriz Balzi e o presente trabalho contribuem para preencher esta lacuna. / This paper was divided into two parts, as it deals with research where topics complement each other, without giving up their individual importance. These topics are the figure of the pianist Beatriz Balzi and the Latin American piano art music. Their paths crossed in 1984, the year when Beatriz Balzi started a series of recordings of this repertoire, registering pieces composed from 1898 to 1997 in a CD collection under the title of Latin American Composers. A wide range of techniques, styles and compositional procedures were exemplified by Beatriz Balzi in the 54 pieces of her CD series. Originated from 13 countries, such compositions testify the formation of this continent\'s cultural heritage, in the period when it struggled to be recognized for its own characteristics. This conclusion emerges from the analysis carried out on the scores used by the above-mentioned pianist in her recordings, together with the study of the inserts attached to the CDs, the listening to them, and the interviews with recorded composers. A summarized historical panorama of the XX Century\'s classical music was formulated in order to contextualize this repertoire. On its turn, Beatriz Balzi\'s biography and the dissertation on her trajectory in the completion of the Latin American Composers series, unpublished material which was distinctive in the decade in which it was created, give rise to the following question: why would the pianist devote herself to such a task, instead of embracing a repertoire which would be more accessible to herself and to the audience? The answer that echoes is the militancy for the valuing of these authors\' music as well as their own valuing, in addition to bringing together the peoples of this continent by means of mutual knowledge. Although this type of research has attracted the attention of the XXI Century musicians and scholars, the Latin American art music has always been relegated to a less important place in the universe of the Western concert music. Beatriz Balzi\'s series and the present paper contribute to fill this gap.

A integração latino-americana recente tem passado por uma propagação de diferentes propostas de integração. Nesse sentido, destacam-se as diferentes estratégias de inserção regional adotadas pelas principais economias da região: Brasil entre os governos Lula (2003-2010) e Dilma (2011-2014) e México nos governos Fox (2000-2006), Calderón (2006-2012) e Peña Nieto (2012-). Esta dissetação busca analisar, portanto, a inserção do Brasil e do México na integração latino-americana, tomando como centro fundamental de análise as iniciativas da União de Nações Sul-Americanas (UNASUL) e Aliança do Pacífico, respectivamente. Para isso, é utilizado o arcabouço teórico da Teoria Marxista da Dependência, a qual entende tanto o Brasil quanto o México como países inseridos de maneira dependente no sistema capitalista mundial. Partindo disso, a dissertação realiza uma descrição em perspectiva histórica da inserção latino-americana, desde as primeiras tentativas no século XIX. Em seguida, são analisadas as inserções de Brasil e México na integração latino-americana, e para fechar, um capítulo comparativo, com as semelhanças e diferenças encontradas em suas estratégias. / Recent Latin American integration has experienced a spreading of different integration proposals. In this sense, the different regional insertion strategies adopted by the main economies of the region stands out: Brazil between the governments Lula (2003-2010) and Dilma (2011-2014) and Mexico during Fox (2000-2006), Calderón (2006-2012) and Peña Nieto (2012-) governments. This master thesis seeks to analyze, therefore, the insertion of Brazil and Mexico in Latin American integration, taking as a fundamental center of analysis the initiatives of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and the Pacific Alliance, respectively. For this, the theoretical framework of the Marxist Theory of Dependency is used, which understands both Brazil and Mexico as countries inserted in a dependent way in the world capitalist system. Based on that, this master thesis makes a historical perspective on the Latin American insertion, from the first attempts in the nineteenth century. Next, the insertions of Brazil and Mexico in Latin American integration are analyzed. Finally, in a comparative chapter, the similarities and differences between their strategies are identified and analyzed.

Orientador: Brunno Vinicius Gonçalves Vieira / Banca: José Eduardo dos Santos Lohner / Banca: Luis Augusto Schmidt Totti / Banca: Cláudio Aquati / Banca: Márcio Thamos / Resumo: O presente trabalho tem como objeto as tragédias Oedipus e Phoenissae, escritas em meados do século I d.C. pelo autor latino Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 a.C.? - 65 d.C.). Consiste em um estudo crítico sobre a tessitura poética do texto latino por meio da proposta de uma tradução expressiva em português para esses dois dramas. Em outras palavras, este trabalho pretende investigar e descrever o idioma estilístico de Sêneca no córpus a fim de ensaiar sua transposição para o português. Far-se-á: 1) uma análise dos textos latinos, 2) uma apreciação da tradução de Oedipus por Candido Lusitano e 3) uma tradução expressiva dos dois dramas. O objetivo é revelar traços fundamentais do idioma estilístico de Sêneca no córpus, bem como refletir sobre sua transposição para o português nas traduções propostas por esta autora e na tradução de Oedipus proposta por Candido Lusitano, no século XVIII. A tradução de Lusitano é a única tradução poética metrificada em português da tragédia Oedipus até o presente momento. Da tragédia Phoenissae, há apenas traduções em prosa. A escolha dessas duas tragédias se deu pelo fato de que, dentre os dramas senequianos, esses são os únicos que se centram no mito dos Labdácidas. Assim, é possível uma abordagem completa sobre o tratamento dado por Sêneca ao mito de Édipo. O conceito de idioma estilístico diz respeito à afinidade estilística necessária para que uma tradução possa ser equivalente ao texto de partida. As tragédias estudadas - poemas dramáticos que sã... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This study has as object the tragedies Oedipus and Phoenissae, written in the middle of century I d.C. by the Latin author Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 a.C. - 65 d.C.). It consists of a critical study on the expressiveness of the Latin text by means of the proposal of an expressive translation in Portuguese for these two dramas. In other words, this work intends to investigate and describe the stylistic language of Seneca in the corpus in order to rehearse his transposition into Portuguese. It will be done: 1) an analysis of the Latin texts, 2) an appreciation of the translation of Oedipus by Candido Lusitano, and 3) an expressive translation of such tragedies. In this wise, we aim at defining the main characteristics of stylistic idiom of Seneca in the corpus and reflecting on its transposition into Portuguese - in our translation of both tragedies and in Candido Lusitano's translation of Oedipus (from 18th century). Lusitano's version was the only poetic and metrified translation of Oedipus we had until this paper - all Phoenissae translation into Portuguese are in prose. Since such tragedies are the only ones that deal with the myth of Labdacids, we chose them. Thus, a complete approach is possible concerning how Seneca treated the myth of Oedipus. The concept of stylistic idiom concerns the stylistic affinity required for a translation to be equivalent to the source text. Both tragedies - as dramatic poems - contain an abundant and sophisticated use of expressive resources, commonly classified as figures of speech, as well as by the stylistic expedients present in the phonic, lexical, morphosyntactic and metrical planes. This work consists of an investigation of how to orchestrate expression and content in the poetic utterance, offering an expressive translation, or, in other words... (Complete abstract electronic access below) / Doutor

Esta tese tem como objetivos identificar e analisar princípios pedagógicos dos processos de trans-formação do ator que os grupos Abya Yala (Costa Rica), Yuyachkani (Peru) e Ói Nóis Aqui Traveiz (Brasil) desenvolveram ao longo de sua história e problematizar como eles poderiam ser de grande valia na formação atoral em diversas instâncias. Partiu-se principalmente de entrevistas e visitas realizadas aos grupos, assim como do estudo de material escrito e audiovisual referente ao tema. O teatro é uma construção cultural que muda de acordo com a época, o local e contexto em que se desenvolve. Do mesmo modo a formação atoral responde a essas variáveis. Atrelada às práticas cênicas dos grupos se constrói uma pedagogia para a trans-formação. Foram identificados alguns pontos em comum entre eles como o engajamento tanto no que diz respeito à vida política do país como o que se refere ao treinamento do ator. Há também nos três a busca pela autonomia do ator como criador, responsável por suas escolhas e pelo seu papel dentro do grupo. Existe neles ainda a ênfase em compartilhar sua experiência, incentiva-se os atores a serem facilitadores de processos fora ou dentro do coletivo. Esta pesquisa trouxe à tona a importância de manter contato com o fazer teatral latino-americano, revelando uma riqueza na diversidade de propostas trans-formativas e de como elas extrapolam o ambiente do grupo, podendo ser tomadas como exemplo para outros processos de formação atoral. / This thesis aims to identify and analyze the pedagogical principles of the processes of trans-formation of the actor that Abya Yala (Costa Rica), Yuyachkani (Peru) and Ói Nóis Aqui Traveiz (Brazil) developed throughout its history and discuss how they could be of great value in the formation of actors in several instances. This thesis is based mainly on interviews and visits to the groups, as well as the study of written and audio-visual material on the topic. Drama is a cultural construction that changes according to time, place and context in which it develops. Similarly the formation of actors answers to those same variables. Coupled to the group´s practices on scene it is build a pedagogy for trans-formation. We identified some common ground between them as they engage both politically, with the country´s situation, and regarding the training of the actors. All three groups demonstrate a quest for the actors independence as creators, responsible for their choices and their role within the group. They also reveal their emphasis on sharing their experience, as they encourage the actors to be facilitators of processes both inside and outside of the collective. This research has brought to light the importance of maintaining contact with the Latin American way of doing theatre, revealing a wealth of diversity of the proposed trans-formative processes that go beyond the group environment, and how they can be taken as an example to other actor-forming processes.

Submitted by SBI Biblioteca Digital (sbi.bibliotecadigital@puc-campinas.edu.br) on 2017-06-28T13:20:21Z No. of bitstreams: 1 EDUARDO VAGNER SANTOS SIM?ES.pdf: 1060941 bytes, checksum: ede4642d189ecc1b55282336c6853d25 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-28T13:20:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 EDUARDO VAGNER SANTOS SIM?ES.pdf: 1060941 bytes, checksum: ede4642d189ecc1b55282336c6853d25 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-12-16 / The present research deals with the problematic of Latin American evangelical identity built from its historical issues in the second half of the 20th century. First, it shows the difficulties of the theme such as the semantic issue related to the term evangelical and the transdenominationality concerning the charismatic ways of living the Christian faith. It also briefly overviews the academic studies about protestantism and evangelicalism in which it fits. Then, it presents ways of dealing with the specific problematic of this research. In a second moment, this research faces the question regarding the political and religious field where Latin American evangelicalism develops its identity, presenting its major formative characters: Catholicism, ecumenism and fundamentalism. Last, it makes a discursive analysis of the final documents of the most important Latin American evangelical congresses, conferences, and the Lausanne Congress (1974). So Evangelicalism is seen like a historical product in close connection with the political, social and religious context of the studied decades. It is both fruit of fundamentalism, from which it develops its antiecumenism, as of the ecumenism, from which it inherits questions about the missiological praxis. / A presente pesquisa lida com a problem?tica da forma??o da identidade evangelical latino-americana a partir de seus contingentes hist?ricos na segunda metade do s?culo XX. Primeiro, exp?e as dificuldades relativas ao tema, tais como o problema sem?ntico ligado ? palavra evang?lico e a transdenominacionalidade ligada ?s formas carism?ticas de viv?ncia da f? crist?. Tamb?m faz um breve retrospecto do estudo acad?mico do protestantismo e do evangelicalismo no qual esta se insere. Ent?o apresenta caminhos para se tratar da problem?tica espec?fica desta pesquisa. Num segundo momento, trabalha com a quest?o do campo pol?tico-religioso no qual o evangelicalismo latino-americano desenvolve sua identidade, apresentando seus principais agentes informativos: o catolicismo, ecumenismo e fundamentalismo. Por fim, faz uma an?lise discursiva dos documentos finais dos principais congressos e confer?ncias evang?licas latino-americanas e do Congresso de Lausanne (1974). Assim, o Evangelicalismo ? visto como um produto hist?rico em ?ntima rela??o com o contexto pol?tico, social e religioso das d?cadas estudadas. ? fruto tanto fundamentalismo de onde desenvolve seu anti-ecumenismo, quando do ecumenismo do qual herda alguns questionamentos quanto ? pr?tica missiol?gica.

Dissertação apresentada ao Programa de Pós-Graduação Interdisciplinar em Estudos Latino-americanos da Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana, como requisito parcial à obtenção do título de Mestre em Estudos Latino- Americanos. Orientador: Prof. Dr. Bruno López Petzoldt. / Submitted by Luis Eduardo Pereira (l.edupereira@hotmail.com) on 2017-04-26T16:56:49Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação revisada FINAL.pdf: 2370088 bytes, checksum: 58526bd349803aebf251cf28cba29ce1 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Nilson Junior (nilson.junior@unila.edu.br) on 2017-04-26T17:24:24Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação revisada FINAL.pdf: 2370088 bytes, checksum: 58526bd349803aebf251cf28cba29ce1 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-26T17:24:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação revisada FINAL.pdf: 2370088 bytes, checksum: 58526bd349803aebf251cf28cba29ce1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-04-26 / The main object of study assumed in this paper are the media and semiotic dialogues of the relationship literature-cinema having cultural contexts as backround. From multiple factors and study models which include cinema, the aim is to analyze the movement of the creative process between the works "La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y su abuela desalmada" (1972) by García Márquez and the film Eréndira (1983) by Ruy Guerra. In addition to looking after a relationship of analysis in which the film is only based on the story, it is sought to think how the cultural contexts of the artists and the potential representatives of the media resignify readings that are materialized by creating an interpenetration of the artistic discourses. Therefore, this paper strives to present cross-readings that make it possible to understand treatments of cultural issues in the story from the point of view of cinematographic resources and the same in reverse. / O objeto central de estudo assumido neste trabalho são os diálogos midiáticos e semióticos da relação cinema-literatura. Essa relação principal será observada tendo como pano de fundo representações ligadas ao imaginário cultural latino-americano. A partir de múltiplos fatores e modelos de estudo que incluem o cinema, busca-se analisar o movimento do processo criativo entre as obras “La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada” (1972), de García Márquez, e o filme Eréndira (1983), de Ruy Guerra. Para além de cuidar de uma relação de análise na qual o filme é apenas baseado no conto, busca-se pensar como os contextos culturais dos artistas e os potenciais representativos das mídias em jogo ressignificam leituras que se materializam criando uma interpenetração dos discursos artísticos. Portanto, o presente trabalho empenha-se em apresentar leituras cruzadas que possibilitam compreender o tratamento de questões culturais representadas no conto pelo ponto de vista dos recursos cinematográficos e o mesmo ao revés.

Research suggests parental home and school involvement improves multiple outcomes for middle school students, including academic achievement, school engagement, motivation, self-efficacy, and prosocial behaviors. Little is known, however, about multilevel factors associated with Latino/a parental involvement in the middle school learning environment. In the current study, multilevel analysis was used to explore student, family, and school factors associated with Latino/a parental involvement. Results from the hierarchical linear modeling analyses found (a) Latino/a parental home and school involvement varied within schools and between schools, (b) student gender, prosocial behavior, and academic achievement were positively associated with parental home involvement, and (c) student gender, problem behavior, prosocial behavior, academic achievement, and family socioeconomic status were positively associated with parental school involvement. Percentages of Latino/a students and low-income students in schools did not significantly moderate the average parental home or school involvement across students and across schools. The results of this study have implications for educators and policy makers to promote Latino/a parent-teacher collaboration in the middle school learning environment.

O presente trabalho tem por objetivos: em primeiro lugar, arrolar, traduzir e analisar epigramas de Marcial em que a mulher é objeto de invectiva; em segundo lugar, visa a rastrear, na tradição anterior ao poeta, o tema da misoginia, desde Hesíodo, no célebre episódio de Pandora (Teogonia, vv. 570- 612), passando pelos poetas iâmbicos arcaicos (Arquíloco, Hipônax e Semônides), até o uso que poetas latinos, como Catulo, Horácio e Juvenal, fizeram do tema, entendido agora como tópos. Em terceiro lugar, o presente trabalho pretende observar de que maneira o epigrama, ou melhor, sua possibilidade invectiva, se apropriou da misoginia, adequando-a às características principais do gênero, a saber, brevidade e agudeza, e, finalmente, tentar demonstrar que o vitupério a mulheres em Marcial é regulado e percebido mediante práticas retóricas (como os progymnásmata) e alguns trópoi (como a écfrase), que à época do poeta participavam da formação educacional do cidadão. Nesse sentido, pretendemos estudar particularmente as relações que a invectiva mantém, nos epigramas de Marcial, com a construção de imagens viciosas de mulher e suas relações com o gênero epidítico. / The aims of the present work are first, to list, translate and analyse Martial\'s epigrams in which women are the object of invective; second, to try to investigate, in the former tradition, the theme of misogyny, both in Greece (from Hesiod, in the celebrated episode of Pandora (Teogony, vv. 570-612), to the archaic iambic poets, Archilochus, Hipponax and Semonides), and in Rome (how misogyny, as a tópos, is treatead by Catullus, Horace and Juvenal). In the third place, the present research intends to study in what manner epigram, or more precisely, its vituperative possibility, appropriated the theme of misogyny, adapting it to the main characteristics of the genre, such as conciseness and acuteness. Finally, we attempt to demonstrate that the vituperation against women, in Martial, is regulated and perceived through various rhetorical practices (such as the progymnásmata) and trópoi (such as ekphrasis) that at the poet\'s time were an important part of the citizen\'s education. Therein, we intend to study, in particular, the analogies that the invective maintain, in Martial\'s epigrams, non only with the construction of images in which women are corrupted, but also with the relationship between these images and the epidictic genre.