Intersectional hermanas: LDS Latinas navigate faith, leadership and sisterhood

Not a Country or a Stereotype: Latina LDS Experiences of Ethnic Homogenization and Racial Tokenism in the American West

“…However, the attempt to do more than symbolically integrate Spanish and English wards in the past has created multiple instances of institutional marginalization and social tension for Latinx and Anglo LDS populations. (Embry 1997;Garcia 2018;Vega 2019;Romanello 2020). This case study and Muro's illustration of symbolic integration is an important context that can help us to understand some of the factors that cause Latina women to prefer pan-ethnic Spanish speaking wards to English ones, even if they are bilingual.…”

“…In recent years, the primary source of new growth in the US LDS church body has been within Spanish-speaking congregations, and the majority of these members are women like Veronica-immigrants who seek acceptance of their ethnic identities and cultural values as a part of their religious practice (Vega 2019;Romanello 2020). Other American-born religions have experienced similar changes in their US demographics due to recent influxes of Latin American immigration that have brought in new membership (López-Sanders 2012;Alonzo 2016;Reyes 2016).…”

Resilience of Older Latinos and Mexicans Before and During the Pandemic

“…One of the consensus areas stemming from the literature, however, is that the small but growing body of resilience studies has focused on younger populations. Indeed, these studies examine resilience among Latino immigrants (Revens et al, 2021; see also Ciarmella et al, 2022), college students (Gwadz et al, 2021), Latinos with HIV (Gonzalez, 2020), and Latinos with cancer (Hunter-Hernández et al, 2015), with a more limited set of works focusing on older Latinos (Fuller & Huseth-Zosel, 2021; Pei et al, 2019; Vega, 2019). Research has also examined resiliency among older persons in Latin America (Bennett et al, 2016; Caycho-Rodríguez et al, 2018; Tomas et al, 2021).…”

“…Research has also examined resiliency among older persons in Latin America (Bennett et al, 2016; Caycho-Rodríguez et al, 2018; Tomas et al, 2021). Two of the interesting insights of the existing resilience literature is the framing of resiliency as part of successful or healthy aging (Jeste et al, 2013; Jopp & Smith, 2006; Stewart et al, 2019) and the important role that religion and spirituality play in resilience (Fuller & Huseth-Zosel, 2021; Hunter-Hernández et al, 2015; Manning & Miles, 2018; Revens et al, 2021; Richardson, 2002; Vega, 2019).…”