Summary of legislation affecting Black and Spanish Americans introduced during the 1981 legislative session /

WI docs. no.: Leg.3:IM/1982/26

Workers of Spanish origin : a chartbook /

Mode of access: Internet.

¿Confiar en los criollos? Apreciaciones sobre la condición de los españoles americanos en el siglo XVIII

Este trabajo realiza una reflexión sobre el recelo que el sector criollo ocasionaba en las altas magistraturas de la monarquía hispánica, de la que emana, obviamente, la política selectiva de cargos y honores tanto en el ámbito de la administración como en el de la Iglesia. El talento y la calidad moral de este segmento de la población estuvo, más que en ninguna otra época, en tela de juicio a lo largo de todo el siglo XVIII. El trabajo traza una panorámica sustentada en obras y documentos del setecientos donde se realizan apologías o críticas de los españoles americanos. La hipótesis que sostiene esta investigación plantea que si la desconfianza hacia la población hispánica de América no hubiera calado tan profundamente, la política borbónica podría haber tenido otra orientación, y por tanto la memoria histórica de los criollos, posterior a la Independencia, podría haber sido menos negativa con respecto a su pasado virreinal

¿Confiar en los criollos? Apreciaciones sobre la condición de los españoles americanos en el siglo XVIII

Este trabajo realiza una reflexión sobre el recelo que el sector criollo ocasionaba en las altas magistraturas de la monarquía hispánica, de la que emana, obviamente, la política selectiva de cargos y honores tanto en el ámbito de la administración como en el de la Iglesia. El talento y la calidad moral de este segmento de la población estuvo, más que en ninguna otra época, en tela de juicio a lo largo de todo el siglo XVIII. El trabajo traza una panorámica sustentada en obras y documentos del setecientos donde se realizan apologías o críticas de los españoles americanos. La hipótesis que sostiene esta investigación plantea que si la desconfianza hacia la población hispánica de América no hubiera calado tan profundamente, la política borbónica podría haber tenido otra orientación, y por tanto la memoria histórica de los criollos, posterior a la Independencia, podría haber sido menos negativa con respecto a su pasado virreinal

¿Confiar en los criollos? Apreciaciones sobre la condición de los españoles americanos en el siglo XVIII

Este trabajo realiza una reflexión sobre el recelo que el sector criollo ocasionaba en las altas magistraturas de la monarquía hispánica, de la que emana, obviamente, la política selectiva de cargos y honores tanto en el ámbito de la administración como en el de la Iglesia. El talento y la calidad moral de este segmento de la población estuvo, más que en ninguna otra época, en tela de juicio a lo largo de todo el siglo XVIII. El trabajo traza una panorámica sustentada en obras y documentos del setecientos donde se realizan apologías o críticas de los españoles americanos. La hipótesis que sostiene esta investigación plantea que si la desconfianza hacia la población hispánica de América no hubiera calado tan profundamente, la política borbónica podría haber tenido otra orientación, y por tanto la memoria histórica de los criollos, posterior a la Independencia, podría haber sido menos negativa con respecto a su pasado virreinal

A list of speakers on issues concerning Hispanic women.

Mode of access: Internet.

Hispanics and jobs : barriers to progress.

Mode of access: Internet.

Spanish-speaking Americans : their manpower problems and opportunities /

"A reprint from the 1973 Manpower Report of the President"

One Voice, Two Attitudes: Perceptions of Spanish and English among Cuban Americans in Miami , Lecture by Phillip M. Carter

This flyer promotes the event "One Voice, Two Attitudes: Perceptions of Spanish and English among Cuban Americans in Miami Lecture by Phillip M. Carter" hosted by the Cuban Research Institute.

Reinventing America on the battlefields of Spain or following the party line: conflicting perceptions of the Spanish Civil War in the present and in the past

Isolationism and neutrality are two of the recurrent themes in the study of the history of the U.S. foreign policy in the interwar years. The trauma of the Great War, which had swept away 130.000 U.S. lives and had cost $30 billion, had led public opinion to strongly oppose any involvement with European affairs. Besides, the urgent need for economic recovery during the dismal years of the Great Depression did not leave Roosevelt much room for manoeuvre to influence international events. His positions regarding the intentions of the Fascist states remained, at best, ambivalent. These facts notwithstanding, about 2800 U.S. citizens crossed the Atlantic and rushed in to help democratic Spain, which was on the verge of becoming one more hostage in the hands of the Fascism. They joined the other British, Irish and Canadian volunteers and formed the XV International Brigade. 900 Americans never returned home. This alone should challenge the commonly held assumption that the American people were indifferent to the rise of the Fascist threat in Europe. But it also begs other questions. Considering the prevailing isolationist mood, what really motivated them? With what discursive elements did these men construct their anti Fascist representations? How far did their understanding of the Spanish democracy correspond to their own American democratic ideal? In what way did their war experience across the Atlantic mould their perception of U.S. politics (both domestic and foreign)? How far did the Spanish Civil War constitute one first step towards the realization that the U.S. might actually be drawn into another international conflict of unpredictable consequences? Last but not the least, what ideological, political and cultural complicity existed between the men from the English-speaking battalions? In order to unearth some of the answers, I intend to examine their letters and see how these men recorded the historical events in which they took part. Their correspondence emerged from the desire to prove their commitment to a common cause and spoke of a common war experience, but each letter, in its uniqueness, ends up mirroring not only the social and political background of each individual fighter, but also his own particular perspective of the war, of world politics and of the Spanish people. We shall see how these letters differ and converge and how these particular accounts weave, as in an epistolary novel, a larger-than-life narrative of outrage and solidarity, despair and hope.

The Spanish translation, cultural adaptation and validation of the Powe Fatalism Inventory

Background/significance. The scarcity of reliable and valid Spanish language instruments for health related research has hindered research with the Hispanic population. Research suggests that fatalistic attitudes are related to poor cancer screening behaviors and may be one reason for low participation of Mexican-Americans in cancer screening. This problem is of major concern because Mexican-Americans constitute the largest Hispanic subgroup in the U.S.^ Purpose. The purposes of this study were: (1) To translate the Powe Fatalism Inventory, (PFI) into Spanish, and culturally adapt the instrument to the Mexican-American culture as found along the U.S.-Mexico border and (2) To test the equivalence between the Spanish translated, culturally adapted version of the PFI and the English version of the PFI to include clarity, content validity, reading level and reliability.^ Design. Descriptive, cross-sectional.^ Methods. The Spanish language translation used a translation model which incorporates a cultural adaptation process. The SPFI was administered to 175 bilingual participants residing in a midsize, U.S-Mexico border city. Data analysis included estimation of Cronbach's alpha, factor analysis, paired samples t-test comparison and multiple regression analysis using SPSS software, as well as measurement of content validity and reading level of the SPFI. ^ Findings. A reliability estimate using Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.81 for the SPFI compared to 0.80 for the PFI in this study. Factor Analysis extracted four factors which explained 59% of the variance. Paired t-test comparison revealed no statistically significant differences between the SPFI and PFI total or individual item scores. Content Validity Index was determined to be 1.0. Reading Level was assessed to be less than a 6th grade reading level. The correlation coefficient between the SPFI and PFI was 0.95.^ Conclusions. This study provided strong psychometric evidence that the Spanish translated, culturally adapted SPFI is an equivalent tool to the English version of the PFI in measuring cancer fatalism. This indicates that the two forms of the instrument can be used interchangeably in a single study to accommodate reading and speaking abilities of respondents. ^

Spanish-surname farm operators in southern Texas

Includes bibliographical references.

Equal opportunities for Spanish-speaking people : Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, first session ... /

"Serial no. 32."

Hispanics, housing, and HUD : final report for the development of a methodology for involving the Spanish speaking community in HUD programs /

Photocopy.

Report from Office for Spanish Speaking American Affairs.

Mode of access: Internet.