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Spiritual activism	The sounds of change in Downey, California

Visual acuity outcomes following cataract extraction in adult Latinos: The Los Angeles Latino Eye Study	Acute stress reduction with interactive guided imagery in overweight Latino adolescents

Our way of life: The swap-meet subculture	The college labyrinth: The educational course of first-generation Latino students in engineering

Immigration integration: A greater role for the Internet	Penalty! Blowing the whistle on youth soccer in the United States

Dorsey High School: A lesson in transformation	Perceptions of dementia among Latinos

Preventing type 2 diabetes among Hispanic Americans: Opportunities for optimizing mobile phone technology	Este lugar si importa: Heritage conservation in Unincorporated East Los Angeles

Exploring perceptions of facilitators that encourage breast cancer screening behavior among Latina women in Los Angeles County	Elevated fasting free fatty acids in overweight Latino children and adolescents

Family matters: The impact of family involvement and support on college retention	Latino parental aspirations and literacy practices related to children's reading engagement

Professional development in high- and low-performing elementary schools serving large numbers of African American, Latino, and low-socioeconomic students	The impact of remedial mathematics on the success of African American and Latino male community college students

Flexible families: Bracero families' lives across cultures, communities, and countries, 1942--1964	Ready but restricted: An examination of the challenges of college access and financial aid for college-ready undocumented students in the U.S.

Genetic association studies of age-related macular degeneration from candidate gene to whole genome	Toward understanding academic risk and resilience: A social capital perspective

Undermining common sense: Racial legislation, comedy, and the family	The role of music in the English language development of Latino prekindergarten English learners

From conversation to conversion: Children's efforts to translate their immigrant families' social networks into community connections	Exploring the Latina/o undergraduate experience: A case study of academically successful students at a research institution

Closing the science achievement gap for ninth grade English learners through standards- and inquiry-based science instruction	The other side of authenticity: Authenticity, liberalism, and resistance

Enterprising citizenship: Mexican immigrant empowerment and public-private partnerships in Santa Ana, California	Domestic negotiations: Chicana domesticity as a critical discourse of US literature and culture

Defining the mobilization of social capital for low-SES minority youth participants in the Summer Bridge Program by program leaders	The nature of middle-class Latino/a students' cultural capital in a fifth-grade classroom's reading and writing activities

Raising Ninos Bien Educados: A case study of a culturally relevant parenting program in an inner city community	The impact of learning communities on the retention and social integration of Latino students at a highly selective private four-year institution

The impact of learning communities on the retention and academic integration of Latino students at a highly selective private four-year institution	The impact of learning community involvement and campus climate on student satisfaction and the retention of Latino students at a highly selective private institution

The implementation of strategies to minimize the achievement gap for African-Americans, Latinos, English Learners, and Socio-economically Disadvantaged students	Acculturation and Latino immigrants' health attitudes and behaviors: A bi-dimensional acculturation model

"Tamales...elotes...champurrado...": The production of Latino vending landscapes in Los Angeles	Chican artists and Zapatistas walk together asking, listening, learning: The role of transnational informal learning networks in the creation of a better world

The academic integration and retention of Latino community college transfer students at a highly selective private four-year institution	"As shelters against the cold": Women poets of the Black Arts and Chicano movements, 1965--1978

The practice of pluralistic medicine by long-term immigrant and native-born Mexican Americans in Santa Ana, California: The persistence of traditional medicine	Nation in uniform: Chicano/Latino war narratives and the construction of nation in the Korean War and Vietnam War, 1951--1976

Closing the achievement gap: A statewide imperative	How Latinos ascend to the superintendency

The sources of impact on First-Generation Latino college students' identity development: From the students' perspective	Are acculturation and parenting styles related to academic achievement among Latino students?

The possible selves of Latino males participating in the Upward Bound Program	Goal orientation of Latino English language: The relationship between students' engagement, achievement and teachers' instructional practices in mathematics

The relationship among the nurturance and monitoring dimensions of parenting, academic self-concept, and acculturation in the academic achievement of Latino college students	The relationship of parental involvement to student academic achievement in Latino middle school students

"¡La union hace la fuerza!" (Unity creates strength!): M.E.Ch.A. and Chicana/o student activism in California, 1967--1999	Episodes in the life of a place: Regional racial formation in Los Angeles's San Gabriel Valley

A comparative study of average and high-achieving high school immigrant and non-immigrant students of Mexican heritage	Entre maricones machos, y gays: Globalization and the construction of sexual identities among queer Mexicanos

Pachucas, pachucos, and their culture: Mexican American youth culture of the southwest, 1910-1955	Solidarity, violence, and the political imagination: Chicana literary imaginings of the Central American civil wars, 1981--2005

Latina bilingual novice teachers' first year: Negotiating relationships, roles and responsibilities within and beyond the classroom	Getting to end-of-life discussions in advanced cancer care: Barriers and attitudes that limit end of life communication for disadvantaged Latinos

Se ve, se siente: Transmedia mobilization in the Los Angeles immigrant rights movement	Faith and community: Recovering gang members in Los Angeles

An alternative capstone project: Closing the achievement gap for Latino English language learners in elementary school	An alternative capstone project: Closing the achievement gap for Hispanic English Language Learners using the gap analysis model

Increasing Latino access to higher education: A suburban district's design and implementation	Familial and cultural variables as predictors of retention of Latino engineering students

An Alternative Capstone Project: Evaluating the academic achievement gap for Latino English language learners in a high achieving school district	An alternative capstone project: A gap analysis inquiry project on the district reform efforts and its impact in narrowing the Hispanic EL achievement gap in Rowland Unified School District

Latino high school students: Self-efficacy and college choice	Splitting Aztlan: American resistance and Chicana visions of a radical utopia

Non-academic factors affecting sense of belonging in first year commuter students at a four-year Hispanic serving institution	Los jardineros de Los Angeles: Suburban maintenance gardening as a pathway to first and second generation Mexican immigrant mobility

First-generation Latino males in Latino fraternities at a Predominately White Institution: Psychological, social, and cultural college experiences	"Mismatched": Matching Latino/as from API 1--2 high schools to an elite public university

Community college transfer student involvement experiences at a selective, private four-year university	Latina teachers in Los Angeles: Navigating race/ethnic and class boundaries in multiracial schools

Infusing school-wide culturally responsive teaching to increase the cultural proficiency of teachers	A qualitative analysis on Latino parents' beliefs regarding their middle school child's motivation

University Ready: Examining the relationships between social capital and an online college access program	Paying it forward: Black men mentoring in a predominately Latina/o community

A comparative study of border crossers and borderland students of Mexican heritage: Their educational experiences and mediating factors	Institutional researchers as agents of organizational learning in Hispanic-serving community colleges

Deconstructing persistence in academic language among second-generation Latinos: How do second-generation Latino language minority community college students alter their academic trajectories?	A quantitative study on Southeast Asian and Latino students' perceptions of teachers' expectations and self-efficacy

Understanding undocumented students' resistance of acting white as they persist to gain access to college-valued information and resources	¡Que naco! Border cinema and Mexican migrant audiences

The sources and influences of cultural heterogeneity: Examining the lives of African American and Latino teenagers in a low-income neighborhood	The impact of cultural capital on Advancement Via Individual Determination students from two southern California high schools

MAT USC candidates and Latino English language learners	Examining Parent Involvement Activities in Two Immigrant-Impacted Schools: A Comparative Case Study

Faculty as institutional agents for low-income Latino students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields at a Hispanic-serving institution