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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... farmworkers like the Avilas , or permanent workers like the Cervantes , have been an essential feature of horticulture in this region . Carl says that when Latino farmworkers appeared on the scene in the late sixties it was a positive ...
... farmworkers like the Avilas , or permanent workers like the Cervantes , have been an essential feature of horticulture in this region . Carl says that when Latino farmworkers appeared on the scene in the late sixties it was a positive ...
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... farmworkers lived ( i.e. they had rights that any other tenant has . ) The radicalism of activists such as Federico and others was incubated in the struggles to improve the quality of life for farmworkers . Federico worked in an agency ...
... farmworkers lived ( i.e. they had rights that any other tenant has . ) The radicalism of activists such as Federico and others was incubated in the struggles to improve the quality of life for farmworkers . Federico worked in an agency ...
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... farmworker healthcare that developed into a high quality network of clinics that made high - quality affordable health care available to all people , including farmworkers . In 1973 the organization it had a budget of about $ 270,000 ...
... farmworker healthcare that developed into a high quality network of clinics that made high - quality affordable health care available to all people , including farmworkers . In 1973 the organization it had a budget of about $ 270,000 ...
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