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- The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500-2000.
- Hablamos la misma lengua. Historia política del español en América, desde la Conquista a las Independencias
- “The Tragedy of the Venezuelan Opposition: Why It’s Been Unable to Effectively Challenge Maduro.”
- “Las poéticas del sinsentido en la literatura argentina contemporánea: reflexiones acerca de su relación con la ironía, el kitsch y el camp.”
- “Developing a cooperative multicenter study in Latin America: Lessons learned from the Latin American Study of Nutrition and Health Project.”
- “U.S. Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and Enforcement of Labor Law in Latin America.”
- “Becoming the ‘Baddest’: Masculine Trajectories of Gang Violence in Medellín.”
- “Cultural stressors, identity development, and substance use attitudes among Hispanic immigrant adolescents.”
- “The Latino/a audience unbound: Intra-ethnic social hierarchies and Spanish-language television news.”
- “The Reactive Left: Gender Equality and the Latin American Pink Tide.”
- The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500-2000.
- Hablamos la misma lengua. Historia política del español en América, desde la Conquista a las Independencias
- “The Tragedy of the Venezuelan Opposition: Why It’s Been Unable to Effectively Challenge Maduro.”
- “Las poéticas del sinsentido en la literatura argentina contemporánea: reflexiones acerca de su relación con la ironía, el kitsch y el camp.”
- “Developing a cooperative multicenter study in Latin America: Lessons learned from the Latin American Study of Nutrition and Health Project.”
- “U.S. Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and Enforcement of Labor Law in Latin America.”
- “Becoming the ‘Baddest’: Masculine Trajectories of Gang Violence in Medellín.”
- “Cultural stressors, identity development, and substance use attitudes among Hispanic immigrant adolescents.”
- “The Latino/a audience unbound: Intra-ethnic social hierarchies and Spanish-language television news.”
- “The Reactive Left: Gender Equality and the Latin American Pink Tide.”
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Abstract: The goal of this investigation was to determine whether various cultural stressors (bicultural stress, perceived discrimination, and perceived negative context of reception [PNCR]) predict positive and negative substance use attitudes, directly and indirectly through personal identity, in a sample of immigrant Hispanic adolescents. Data on cultural stressors, substance use attitudes, and covariates were collected from 302 Hispanic immigrant adolescents (152 from Miami [61% Cuban] and 150 from Los Angeles [70% Mexican]) at 3 time points. PNCR was associated with identity confusion (β = .175, p = .033). Identity confusion significantly predicted higher positive attitudes toward alcohol and other drug (AOD; β = .216, p < .001) and cigarette use (β = .191, p = .015) and mediated the relationship between PNCR with unfavorable AOD attitudes (β = −.019, 95% confidence interval [CI] [− 0.052, − 0.001]) and favorable AOD attitudes (β = 0.038, 95% CI [0.003, 0.086]). Perceptions of a negative context of reception may hinder successful personal identity formation and impact health outcomes for immigrant youth.