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The African Diaspora in Mexico, Brazil, and the United States
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Van Den Berghe, Pierre L. – Social Forces, 1976
Central question addressed is why people of African descent show different rates of acculturation and different degrees of racial distinctiveness in Mexico, Brazil and the United States. Acculturation is greater in Mexico and the U.S. than in Brazil. Mexico makes the least racial distinctions, the U.S. the most, and Brazil is in between.…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Ethnic Groups, Ethnic Status, Immigrants
Immigrant Acculturation, Gender and Health Behavior: A Research Note
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Lopez-Gonzalez, Lorena; Aravena, Veronica C.; Hummer, Robert A. – Social Forces, 2005
Previous research shows that the health behavior of immigrants is favorable to that of native-born adults in the United States. We utilize pooled data from the 1998-2001 National Health Interview Surveys and multinomial logistic regression techniques to build on this literature and examine the association between acculturation and immigrant…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Gender Differences, Acculturation, Immigrants
Dropping the Hyphen? Becoming Latino(a)-American through Racialized Assimilation
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Golash-Boza, Tanya – Social Forces, 2006
Early assimilation theorists predicted the eventual loss of ethnic distinctiveness for immigrants in the United States. In this paper, the author not only questions the possibilities that Latino and Latina Americans have for losing their ethnic distinctiveness, but also proposes that these possibilities vary widely within the Hispanic population.…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Immigrants, Acculturation, Ethnicity