Every Day is Magic: Ada Limón
In her 2015 collection, Bright Dead Things, a National Book Award finalist for poetry, Ada Limón writes of moving to Kentucky: “Confession: I did not want to live here.” It’s perhaps not a surprising sentiment coming from a coastally oriented person who was raised in Northern California, attended college in Seattle, and then spent over a decade in New York City.
But Limón and her husband, Lucas, have been in Lexington for seven years now and the effects of settling into this place are noticeable in her new book, The Carrying (Milkweed, Aug.). It’s a phenomenally lively and attentive collection replete with the trappings of living a little closer to nature. While Bright Dead Things is marked by a preponderance of light, such as images of fireflies and neon signs, The Carrying features numerous appearances by various trees, birds, and beetles. Limón also demonstrates a greater willingness to be explicit in naming colors, particularly green. “It’s crazy green, the whole book,” she says. “Lexington is the greenest place I’ve ever lived.” Similarly, where in Bright Dead Things, Limón tells a lot of stories and anecdotes, in The Carrying she is very present in her thoughts and experiences.
As it turns out, these shifts in focus have another, altogether unexpected source. While putting Bright Dead Things together, Limón was diagnosed with chronic vestibular neuronitis, which can cause bouts of vertigo. “If I’m really having vertigo, it’s pretty intense and I really have to focus,”
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The Association Between Affective and Problem-Solving Communication and Intimate Partner Violence Among Caucasian and Mexican American Couples: a Dyadic Approach
JF Hammett, DM Castañeda, EC Ulloa – Journal of Family Violence, 2015
… Marital conflict and acculturation among Mexican American husbands and wives. …
Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 40(3), 249–256.View Article; Huston,
TL, Caughlin, JP, Houts, RM, Smith, SE, & George, LJ (2001). …
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Self-Reported Parenting of Clinic-Referred and Non-referred Mexican American Mothers of Young Children
KM McCabe, M Mechammil, M Yeh, A Zerr – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2015
… Risk, conflict, mothers’ parenting, and children’s adjustment in low-income, Mexican
immigrant, and Mexican American families. … Eyberg child behavior inventory and
sutter-eyberg student behavior inventory-revised: Professional manual. …
Mexican American and Other Hispanic Couples’ Relationship Dynamics: A Review to Inform Interventions Aimed at Promoting Healthy Relationships
RE Orengo-Aguayo – Marriage & Family Review, 2015
… Marriage & Family Review. Mexican American and Other Hispanic Couples’ Relationship
Dynamics: A Review to Inform Interventions Aimed at Promoting Healthy Relationships. …
RELATIONSHIP DYNAMICS AMONG MEXICAN AMERICAN AND OTHER HISPANIC COUPLES. …
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Cultural, Media, and Peer Influences on Body Beauty Perceptions of Mexican American Adolescent Girls
LF Romo, R Mireles-Rios, A Hurtado – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2015
… Beauty Perceptions of Mexican American Adolescent Girls Laura F. Romo1, Rebeca
Mireles-Rios1, and Aida Hurtado1 … Page 2. 2 Journal of Adolescent Research Keywords Mexican
American, Latinas, adolescent girls, body image, self-esteem, appearance …
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Addressing disparities in accessing hearing health care in a U.S. Mexico Border community
Hearing loss has a major impact on the quality of life among older adults. In population-based studies, 90-96% of Mexican-American adults with hearing loss do not have access to hearing healthcare. To begin to reduce this health disparity, we used a community-based participatory research approach to investigate unmet needs of families affected by hearing loss in a rural, predominately Mexican-American community on the U.S.-Mexico border. We utilized the community health worker (CHW) model as a means to address cultural aspects that might impact access to hearing health care. CHWs are individuals from the community who serve as intermediaries between health professionals and patients…
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The Family Festival Prevention Model: findings from a pilot of a teenage pregnancy prevention programme conceptualised by and for Mexican American communities
Y Murphy-Erby, K Stauss, E Koh – Sex Education, 2015
… Festival Prevention Model: findings from a pilot of a teenage pregnancy prevention programme
conceptualised by and for Mexican American communities. … women of Mexican heritage in the
USA, particularly in rural communities, it is important for health professionals to develop …
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Exploring Mexican American adolescent romantic relationship profiles and adjustment
Although Mexican Americans are the largest ethnic minority group in the nation, knowledge is limited regarding this population’s adolescent romantic relationships. This study explored whether 12th grade Mexican Americans’ (N = 218; 54% female) romantic relationship characteristics, cultural values, and gender created unique latent classes and if so, whether they were linked to adjustment…
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Looking to hire Hispanic STEM graduates? FIU a top producer of science and engineering talent
FIU graduates more Hispanics with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) than any other university in the continental U.S., according to a report released today by Excelencia in Education.
Finding Your Workforce: Latinos in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM), identifies institutions that graduate large numbers of Hispanics with STEM degrees in hopes of encouraging employers to engage with these institutions and hire graduates. FIU ranked second only to universities in Puerto Rico in graduating Hispanics with bachelor’s and master’s degrees…
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Interactive effects of acculturation and pro-inflammatory factors on C-reactive protein among childbearing age Mexican-American women in the United States
Maternal pro-inflammatory states have been linked with increased risk of diabetes and obesity in offspring. Childbearing-age Mexican-American women (CAMAW) have the highest fertility rates and one of the highest levels of inflammation in the United States. A significant proportion migrates to the U.S. during early reproductive years. How acculturation interacts with various pro-inflammatory risk factors to influence inflammation risk in this population has not been examined…
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Parental Feeding Practices and Child Weight status in Mexican American Families: a longitudinal analysis s
JM Tschann, SM Martinez, C Penilla, SE Gregorich… – International Journal of …, 2015
… Procedure We recruited families to participate in a 24-month longitudinal cohort study to
understand parental influences on obesity in Mexican American children. … Occupational status
could range from unskilled (=1) to major professional (=9) [48]. …
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Spirituality and Resilience Among Mexican American IPV Survivors
A Iván, T Barnett-Queen, M Messick, M Gurrola – Journal of interpersonal violence, 2015
… Spirituality and Resilience Among Mexican American IPV Survivors. … This study examined the
correlation between spirituality, resilience, and intimate partner violence using a cross-sectional
survey of 54 Mexican American women living along the US–Mexico border. …
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Beyond immigrant status: Book-sharing in low-income Mexican-American families
M Salinas, DR Pérez-Granados, HM Feldman… – Journal of Early Childhood …, 2015
… Rank) Score: 0.726 | 47/222 Health (Social Science) | 125/273 Developmental and
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SF State awarded $17 million by NIH to enhance workforce diversity in biomedical research
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 22, 2014 — San Francisco State University has been awarded $17.04 million to address issues of workforce diversity in biomedical research, the National Institutes of Health announced today.
The effort is called SF BUILD, which stands for Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity. Professors in biology, chemistry/biochemistry, psychology, geography & environment, and other fields at SF State working on the project are seeking to upend the presuppositions about members of minority communities — that they may not have the aptitude or the background to excel in the sciences. “We are funded to prime institutional transformation,” said Professor of Biology Leticia Márquez-Magaña, the principal investigator for SF BUILD. “Let’s fix the institution, instead of fixing the students and not recognizing their assets.”…
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Machismo in The United States
The word Latino will be used in this paper because of its inclusivity. It has
been used in the United States by people of Hispanic and Latin decent as a means
of legitimacy in politics, humanities and literature. To avoid any uncertainty, Latino,
according to the Royal Academy of Spanish Language, is used to reference both
males and females (Torres-Rivera 26). In the United States, Latinos are younger
than the general population on average. About 60% of the US population is 39 years
or younger, while over ¾ of the Latino population falls in this quotient. 21% of Latino
homes fall below the poverty line. Almost 15% of all those jailed in the United States
are Latino and 23% of these are drug related (27). Therefore, it is highly probable
that any counselor or clinician working with Latino clients will encounter addiction
and substance use or abuse…
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“Where they (live, work and) spray”: Pesticide exposure, childhood asthma and environmental justice among Mexican-American farmworkers
NA Schwartz, CA von Glascoe, V Torres, L Ramos… – Health & Place, 2015
… Mexican American children aged 1–17 in the San Joaquin Valley exhibit a higher prevalence
rate of asthma compared with the … Research assistants were professional children of Mexican
farmworker families who were raised in the San Joaquin Valley and thoroughly familiar …
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Explaining the Mexican-American Health Paradox Using Selectivity Effects
EA Téllez, JN Martínez, ER González – 2015
… Banco de México Working Papers N° 2015-02 Explaining the Mexican-American Health Paradox
Using Selectivity Effects January 2015 … Erick Rangel González Banco de México Page 2. Explaining
the Mexican-American Health Paradox Using Selectivity Effects …
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Mexican American Children and Families: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
MOB Caughy, L Franzini – Mexican American Children and Families: …, 2014
… Policy makers and public health professionals must recognize the heterogeneity within and among …
Selected measures of health status for Mexican-American, mainland Puerto Rican, and Cuban …
Child Maltreatment: Journal of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of …
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Cooper medical tries to buck the trend of Latinos absent from medical workforce
It’s no secret that doctors nationwide lack a Latino presence, but a recent study revealed just how dire the situation has become: A new report by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) shows that only 4 percent of Latinos and African-Americans are in the physician workforce.
So the message being sent nationally to medical schools is simple – create a more diverse physician workforce.
SEE ALSO: Shortage of Hispanic doctors increases health risks for all
One school not only taking the directive to heart but actually leading the way is Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU) . The relatively new institution, which serves the stressed Camden, New Jersey area, is already showing positive results that should in time help diversify doctors in the region…
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Explaining the Mexican-American Health Paradox Using Selectivity Effects
While typically socioeconomically disadvantaged, Mexican migrants in the U.S. tend to have better health outcomes than non-Hispanic Whites. This phenomenon is known as the Hispanic Health Paradox. Using data from Mexico and the U.S., we examine several health outcomes for non-Hispanic Whites and Mexicans in the U.S. and in Mexico and employ Blinder–Oaxaca decompositions to help explain the paradox. We find evidence that selectivity is playing a significant role in the relatively healthy status of Mexican migrants in the U.S. More importantly, there is evidence that health selectivity is a complex process and its effects typically do not work the same way for different health conditions and across genders. We also find evidence that some of Migrants’ health advantages are lost as they spend more time in the U.S.
Majority of of STEM College Graduates Do Not Work in STEM
Jul 10, 2014 – About the Newsroom · Facts for Features · News Releases · Press Kits · Tip Sheets … The U.S. Census Bureau reported today that 74 percent of those who have … however these graduates are not necessarily employed in STEM occupations … The tables released today highlight statistics on field of degree, …
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