The New Majority: How Will Latino Youth Succeed in the Context of Low Educational Expectations and Assumptions of Sexual Irresponsibility?

Gómez, Cynthia; Villaseñor, Elodia; Mann, Emily S.; Mandic, Carmen Gómez; Valladares, Ena Suseth; Mercado, Vanessa; Alcalá, Miguel; Cardona, Vanessa

doi:10.1007/s13178-014-0165-6

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“…The study explored how they negotiate competing messages about sex, pregnancy, parenting and education in the context of social inequalities using both quantitative and qualitative methods, including focus groups, individual interviews and a web-based survey. Substantive details about the larger study are available in a separate publication (Gómez et al 2014). …”

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Beyond the discourse of reproductive choice: narratives of pregnancy resolution among Latina/o teenage parents

Mann

Cardona

Gómez

2015

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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Despite the fact that the US teenage birth rate has declined dramatically in recent years, teen births among Latinas are higher than any other racial/ethnic group. Most studies focus on the causes and consequences of early motherhood among Latina teenagers, neglecting other important dimensions of the issue. This study examines how Latina/o teenage parents living in California narrate their experiences with unintended pregnancy resolution. Qualitative analysis reveals three central themes. First, participants expressed shock upon learning they or their partner was pregnant, followed by acceptance about their impending parenthood. Second, participants' views of abortion and adoption largely foreclosed these options as pathways by which to resolve their unintended pregnancies. Third, participants recounted numerous stories of the messages they received from parents, other family members and male partners that were frequently directive regarding how to resolve their pregnancies. These findings have implications for young people's reproductive health and rights, and for reproductive justice more broadly.

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Beyond the discourse of reproductive choice: narratives of pregnancy resolution among Latina/o teenage parents

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Cardona

Gómez

2015

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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“…A sad reality that was described by Crosnoe, 2009, Ladson-Billings & Tate (1995, Gómez et al (2014), and Logan et al, (2012), and verified in this study is the difference in K-12 educational expectations and spending between less affluent and more affluent communities.…”

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confidence: 72%

“…Two different participants described the lower expectations in their K-12 environment because they went to schools in poor urban neighborhoods. The research of DeAngelo & Franke (2016), Gómez et al (2014), and Roderick et al (2009) is supported with respect to one participant who ended up having to retake multiple classes, giving up his plans for medical school and choosing a less competitive health professions graduate program and career. The second participant, however, because of her exposure for one year to an environment that expected more, was able to take this experience back with her to the lower performing school and use it as motivation to excel.…”

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Stories and lessons of students from underrepresented populations who gained admission to health professions graduate programs

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The percentage of healthcare clinicians and graduate healthcare students who come from Black, Hispanic/Latino, and Native-American backgrounds is significantly lower than the percentage of people from these same backgrounds nationwide (Rojas, 2010;Mitchell & Lassiter, 2006). This Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) research explores the experiences of students from underrepresented populations who were successful in gaining admission to graduate programs for health professionals. The theoretical framework chosen for this study is Self-Determination Theory (SDT). It describes the importance of psychological well-being and is used to explore academic success . The findings of the study suggest that the successful students were motivated by several driving factors including returning to practice in their communities, financial stability, and feeling that they owed it to someone to succeed.They also understood the importance of setting goals, being persistent, taking initiative, having self-confidence, and making use of a variety of support systems (family, peers, professionals, and institutions). The participants shared stories of racial and cultural issues, some that made the process more difficult, and others that were positive and important for their identity. Finally, the findings include the financial and practical obstacles shared by all participants, but felt strongly by economically disadvantaged or first generation college students. Health professions advisors, faculty members, and undergraduate institutions can use this information to support underrepresented pre-health students.

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“…Substantive details about the larger study are available in separate publications (Gómez et al 2014;Villaseñor et al 2013). The findings reported here focus on 30 individual, in-depth, semi-structured interviews with a convenience sample of working-class Latina adolescents, ages 16 to 18, conducted between December 2011 and July 2012.…”

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“…They also have the highest birth rate among adolescents, ages 15-19 (Kost and Maddow-Zimet 2016). While Latina teen pregnancy and birth rates have declined substantially in recent years, such data continue to receive significant attention in social science and public health scholarship, oftentimes at the expense of other considerations (Geronimus 1997(Geronimus , 2003Gómez et al 2014;Mann 2013;O'Sullivan et al 2006). Feminist scholars have sought to take a broader approach to adolescent girls' sexualities by attending to the perspectives and experiences of young women who are often excluded from positive and normative discourses of sexual development, including Latina youth (Bay-Cheng and Goodkind 2016; Barcelos and Gubrium 2014;Dennison and Russell 2005;García 2012;Gubrium et al 2014;Harden 2014;Russell 2005;Schalet 2011;Tolman and McClelland 2011).…”

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Latina Girls, Sexual Agency, and the Contradictions of Neoliberalism

Mann

2016

Sex Res Soc Policy

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This article contributes to the literature on adolescent girls' sexual subjectivities using individual interviews conducted with 30 working-class, Latina teenagers. Latina girls' accounts of their experiences with sexual debut, current sexual relationships, and sexual abstinence reveal that they construct sexual subjectivities through multiple forms of sexual agency; however, for some, the absence of sexual agency remains an enduring feature of their sexual experiences. The findings illustrate the contradictions embedded in Latina girls' narratives of sexual agency whereby they often draw on dominant discourses of neoliberalism, heterosexuality, and traditional gender ideology as rhetorical strategies by which to legitimize their sexual decision-making and resist their subjectification as Bat-risk^girls. The uptake of these discourses in the narratives of those marginalized at the intersections of gender, race, and class demonstrate the salience of neoliberalism as a form of disciplinary power and have implications for ongoing efforts to foster positive adolescent sexual development.

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The New Majority: How Will Latino Youth Succeed in the Context of Low Educational Expectations and Assumptions of Sexual Irresponsibility?

Cited by 7 publications

References 33 publications

Beyond the discourse of reproductive choice: narratives of pregnancy resolution among Latina/o teenage parents

Beyond the discourse of reproductive choice: narratives of pregnancy resolution among Latina/o teenage parents

Stories and lessons of students from underrepresented populations who gained admission to health professions graduate programs

Latina Girls, Sexual Agency, and the Contradictions of Neoliberalism

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