An American-Mexican Frontier

A crossover in Mexican and Mexican-American fertility rates: Evidence and explanations for an emerging paradox.

Against a backdrop of two new developments in the fertility behavior of the Mexican-Origin population in the U.S., the present discussion will update contemporary Mexican-Origin fertility patterns and address several theoretical weaknesses in the current approach to immigrant group fertility. Data come from six national surveys (three from Mexico and three from the U.S.) that cover a twenty-fiv...

Parenting practices and childhood anxiety reporting in Mexican, Mexican American, and European American families.

Parenting practices reflecting over-control and lack of warmth and acceptance are associated with childhood anxiety in white non-Latino populations. In this study, we examined whether these parenting practices were related to childhood anxiety in Mexican-descent children. Mexican (M: n=46), Mexican American (MA: n=48), and European American (EA: n=47) families discussed three ambiguous, potenti...

Trajectories of Mexican American and mainstream cultural values among Mexican American adolescents.

Mexican Americans are one of the largest and fastest growing ethnic groups in the United States, yet we have limited knowledge regarding changes (i.e., developmental trajectories) in cultural orientation based upon their exposure to the Mexican American and mainstream cultures. We examined the parallel trajectories of Mexican American and mainstream cultural values in a sample of 749 Mexican Am...

Stephen Long and American Frontier Exploration

British Investment in the American Mining Frontier

British involvement in the American mining frontier presents us with an interesting conundrum. On the one hand, British miners, managers, and engineers played a major role in bringing locally-owned and promoted ventures into short-term profit and successful long-term development. On the other hand, direct investments in the same mining districts undertaken by British owned companies met with ne...