Latino Churches: Faith, Family, and Ethnicity in the Second GenerationCrane's work shows how a significant number of Latino youth born in the rural Midwest have stayed involved in church out of ethnic and family solidarity. Although these youths do not show the same zeal and enthusiasm for certain traditions held dear by their parents, they have kept the church as a vital social space for expressing their own spirituality and ethnic identity. Latino churches, in turn, are effective in shaping the lives of youth because they function both as supporters and extensions of the family. The family-congregation nexus combines to enable a more selective form of acculturation that maintains a high-level of family cohesion and linguistic-cultural continuity. Crane's study shows that religion continues to increase the diversity of society rather than facilitate the "incorporation" of ethnic groups into a cultural "mainstream." |
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... Latino . A research report published in 1994 by the Julian Samora Research Insititute ( Aponte and Siles 1994 ) titled Latinos in the Heartland : The Browning of the Midwest argued that the overall population ... Latino population . In ...
... Latino . A research report published in 1994 by the Julian Samora Research Insititute ( Aponte and Siles 1994 ) titled Latinos in the Heartland : The Browning of the Midwest argued that the overall population ... Latino population . In ...
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... population . Native Latinos contributed over 72 % of the Latino population growth during the 1980s ( Rosenbaum 1996 ) ... Latino population base is large , the increase may be due to local Latino population growth . If the Latino ...
... population . Native Latinos contributed over 72 % of the Latino population growth during the 1980s ( Rosenbaum 1996 ) ... Latino population base is large , the increase may be due to local Latino population growth . If the Latino ...
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... Latino community who expected the number to be around 900 . If the unofficial count in 1995 was fairly accurate , it ... Latino population has been truly dramatic , from around 300 at the beginning of the decade ( 8.5 percent of the ...
... Latino community who expected the number to be around 900 . If the unofficial count in 1995 was fairly accurate , it ... Latino population has been truly dramatic , from around 300 at the beginning of the decade ( 8.5 percent of the ...
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