Six maternal teaching behaviors were observed among 101 low-income Puerto Rican and Dominican mothers in New York City as they engaged in a teaching task with their preschool children. Frequencies of specific teaching behaviors were related to ethnicity and acculturation but not to socioeconomic status. Implications for home-school continuity in…

Five affective and personality instruments were completed by 126 urban Hispanic working women, aged 18-65. Dysphoria was positively related to role conflict and negatively related to masculinity (instrumentality), life satisfaction, and self-esteem (the latter 3 having positive correlations with each other). Educational attainment was negatively…

Examines the relationship between male U.S. Navy recruits' background characteristics and successful outcomes in the form of completion of obligated service, promotion, or retention. Concludes that high school graduates, recruits with higher test scores, African-American and Hispanic recruits, and those admitted through the Navy's Delayed Entry…

Discusses how Hispanic athletes fare in professional sports. Lee Trevino, Pablo Morales, Mary Joe Fernandez, and Luis R. Mayoral discuss the importance of education, socioeconomic barriers to success, racism in sports, the adjustment of Hispanic athletes to U.S. culture, and planning for a career after sports. (LP)

Lists resources available to teachers who wish to gain additional information and insight on cultural diversity in the United States. Includes works by and about African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans. Covers topics such as conflict resolution, history, prejudice reduction, and history. (DK)

Discusses corporate hiring and promotion of Hispanic Americans. Interview respondents discuss their Hispanic backgrounds, education, and corporate practices that helped advance their careers. Subjects include executives at SmithKline Beecham (Philadelphia), IBM, John F. Kennedy School of Government (Harvard), Aetna Life and Casualty, and Chase…

Describes the organization and operation of an immigration social service agency in Garden City, Kansas, with attention to relations among the staff and between the staff and the Asian-American and Hispanic-American clientele. (DM)

Describes folk healing beliefs and practices of Mexican-American families. Suggests that practitioners in cross-cultural child welfare services must understand traditional practices and incorporate a compatible approach to them. Otherwise, their clients and patients will go their own ways, sometimes with dire results. (BC)

Discusses a pilot study conducted to determine whether cooperative learning had a beneficial effect on the academic performance of minority students and subsequent enrollments in the elective courses in biochemistry and molecular biology. Minority students average GPA increased from 2.13 (n=39) to 2.96 (n=17). Enrollment in aforementioned courses…

Data from the 1980 and 1990 Current Population Survey files show an increasing proportion of female householder families and increasing poverty rates among Hispanic females in Texas, despite increases in labor force participation rates, hours spent in paid labor, and levels of education. Results refute human-capital and cultural-context…

Examines machismo (strict adherence to traditional masculine gender identity) in terms of Bem's gender schema theory. Uses the example of a Mexican immigrant family facing social and cultural changes to demonstrate the dynamics of machismo and how it might lead to emotional problems and physical symptoms in Hispanic men and their families.…

Interviews with 100 Hispanic parents of New York City schoolchildren found that most parents were well informed about the major AIDS transmission routes but held some erroneous beliefs about casual contagion. AIDS knowledge was negatively related to acculturation level. Parents' knowledge and beliefs about AIDS predicted what they thought students…

Principal Gloria Sanchez Roman is giving local parents a voice at Roque de Duprey Elementary School. A 10-member council helps get parents involved. (MLF)

An annotated bibliography presents a selection of outstanding books in Spanish for young readers. They include poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and folklore. The article stresses the importance of reading well-written, exciting books. A selection of books not recommended because they are neither enjoyable nor enlightening is also included. (SM)

Issues demographic experts face concerning voting rights litigation are considered, using examples from Garza v County of Los Angeles (California) (1990). Errors and the age of census figures when released mean that court decisions about appropriate population bases and thresholds will continue to vary from one location to another. (SLD)