Latino foreign born immigrants from Central and South America and the Dominican Republic represent around twenty percent of the Latino population in the United States. This wave of “Other Latinos/as” began to arrive in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This thesis explores the spiritual practices of three Latino Protestant congregations comprised mainly by first generation immigrants in the area of New England. Drawing from literature in spirituality studies, theology, and Latino/a studies, this thesis brings a religious and cultural analysis of Latino immigration through the lens of Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s spiritual theorizing of Borderlands as a Nepantla experience. The thesis, moreover, proposes pastoral practices of spiritual, ethnic identity, and community formation that are biblically and theologically informed, contextual, and transformative in response to the needs and particularities of these congregations. In analyzing data from the “Other Latinos/as” this study thus provides a needed corrective and supplement to the widespread notion of a monolithic Latino theology of spirituality based on the Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban immigrant experiences. The thesis also aims to move the conversation about Latino Protestant spirituality beyond the common stereotypes which describe it as festive, family oriented, and emotive towards a more nuanced understanding of the religious practices of these communities.

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Collegiate athletic programs at National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II institutions in the United States serve a two-fold purpose. They offer aspiring student athletes access to college and opportunities to play competitive college sports. Consequently, student athletes at Division II institutions experience personal and institutional pressures to compete for championships while achieving academic success. Increasing demands on today’s college student athletes’ athletic participation and performance has a multitude of consequences that could influence their academic performance and success in college. Simultaneously, these institutions and athletic programs are also witnessing another phenomenon – a transformation in their student population. Latino college student athlete matriculation continues to increase every year, mirroring their non-student athlete counterparts in higher education. Their increased enrollment on these college campuses necessitates higher education researchers to better understand this understudied population. In furthering that endeavor, this inquiry sought to illuminate an overarching research question: how does a Latino college athlete’s racial identity influence their academic success and athletic performance? Guided by Gloria Anzaldúa’s Theory of Borderlands (Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 2012), this two-part qualitative study invited seven Latino college student athletes’ to examine their racial-ethnic identity, their academic success, and their athletic participation in Division II competitive sports. Through 12 semi-structured open-ended interviews, the researcher examined the intersections between Latino student athletes’ motivation to do well in their respective sport and their motivation to perform well academically. Among the major findings of this study, participants strongly identified themselves as Nepantleras – border crossers who possessed an intrinsic ability to seamlessly cross the world of academics and the world of athletics. Their movement across these dual world realities, in addition to balancing the expectations of their Latino familias y culturas, resulted in the participants rejecting the idea of one or the other (student or athlete) and claiming a singular identity: Soy Estudiante Deportista. Understanding and engaging with Latino college student athletes’ academic and athletic experiences at Division II institutions is vital for college faculty, athletic directors, coaches, student affairs professionals, and institutional administrators invested in their success. This study offers these institutional agents recommendations to best support their student athletes.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 Carlos Vinícius da Silva Figueiredo.pdf: 3856031 bytes, checksum: 672d6da6ece85a2b6a650597d91b6c9f (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-04 / Nowadays the cultural-historical and literary context of great productivity in the U.S. has intensively promoted immigrant literatures, identities in transit, which led to the creation of a work like Borderlands/La Frontera: the new mestiza (1987), by Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa. Anzaldúa speaks about a label in particular, the Chicano literature, resulting from the cultural life of the border of Mexico - United States. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to analyze Borderlands/La Frontera in its 4th edition, celebrating its 25th anniversary, in the aspects of artistic creativity, sociocultural context and the representation of the subaltern in her narrative, as well as the design of the concept of "autohistoria" as representative of her life story, surpassing the limits of the biography, becoming the history of her own people. Complements the analysis of the corpus, the files from the collection “The Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Papers (1942-2004)”, deposited in Nettie Lee Benson Latin American library at the University of Texas in Austin, United States. Therefore, the methodology that supports this work involves theoretical reflections and critical studies about post-colonial studies, especially concerning the works of Ashcroft & Griffiths & Tiffin (2003), Spivak (1988), Beverley (2004) Santiago (2004), Bhabha (2000), Mignolo (2003, 2007), Hall (2008), Hawley (2001) and works of literary criticism about Anzaldúa, as Keating (2009), Cantú (2012), Fernandes (2011), Malvezzi (2010), Bowen (2010) and Torres (2001). In this way, the structure of this work involves the contextualization of the analysis of Borderlands/La Frontera, then, the relations between text vs. context, manuscripts vs. editing and publication of the work, deepening the mutual comparison of the anzalduan file and repertoire as a fundamental component for understanding the narrative Borderlands/La Frontera. Indeed, the work particularly contributes to the expansion of Anzaldúa’s reading in Brazil, covering aspects of Latin American theoretical discourse and critical analysis. / Na contemporaneidade, o contexto histórico-cultural e literário de grande produtividade nos Estados Unidos tem fomentado intensivamente as literaturas imigrantes, de identidades em trânsito, que proporcionou a criação de uma obra como Borderlands/La Frontera: the new mestiza (1987), de Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa, envolvendo o surgimento de um rótulo em particular, como o de literatura chicana, resultante do solo cultural da fronteira México – Estados Unidos. Por conseguinte, o objetivo principal deste trabalho é analisar Borderlands/La Frontera em sua 4ª edição, comemorativa aos vinte e cinco anos de sua publicação, nos aspectos de criatividade artística, do contexto sociocultural e da representação tematizados em sua narrativa, bem como a concepção de “auto-história” enquanto representativo para a história de vida da escritora, ultrapassando os limites de sua biografia, tornando-se a história de seu próprio povo. Complementam o corpus de análise os arquivos da coleção The Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Papers (1942-2004), depositados na biblioteca Nettie Lee Benson da Universidade do Texas, em Austin, Estados Unidos. Para tanto, a metodologia que subsidia esta tese volta-se para as reflexões teórico-críticas acerca dos estudos pós-colonialistas, sobretudo as obras de Ashcroft & Griffiths & Tiffin (2003), Spivak (1988), Beverley (2004), Santiago (2004), Bhabha (2000), Mignolo (2003, 2007), Hall (2008), Hawley (2001) e ainda obras de exegese e fortuna crítica sobre Anzaldúa, como, Keating (2009), Cantú (2012), Fernandes (2011), Malvezzi (2010), Bowen (2010) e Torres (2001). Dessa forma, a operacionalização do trabalho contempla a contextualização da análise de Borderlands/La Frontera, seguida das relações de implicação entre texto vs. contexto, manuscritos vs. edição e publicação da obra, aprofundando no cotejamento do arquivo e repertório anzalduano como componente fundamental para compreensão da narrativa de Borderlands/La Frontera. Com efeito, o trabalho contribui particularmente para a ampliação da leitura de Anzaldúa no Brasil, contemplando aspectos de análise teórico-críticos do discurso latino-americano.

This qualitative study described four testimonios from Chicanas who have successfully completed a doctorate in education degree, both Ph.D. and Ed.D. The literature reviewed three important areas of study. The first is a review of the systemic challenges that Chicanas must hurdle; cheap labor, segregation of schools and neighborhoods, being silenced through English-only education, and deficit thinking. The second area of review focused on ways that Chicanas create strategies for success to overcome these challenges. The third was a review of the theoretical literature through a distinctly and relevant Chicana feminist lens. Chicanas’ strategies for success were collected as testimonios. These lived stories are shared using a narrative approach and were analyzed through a Chicana feminist lens, allowing the researcher to connect with indigenous roots. Findings include cultural intuition, reflexión, máscaras, nepantla, and La Virgen de Guadalupe as themes that enable an understanding of the strategies used by these successful women. This study sought to understand how gender and race impact graduate scholarship among a unique population and adds to the body of knowledge on doctoral education and Latina (specifically Chicana) education in particular.