How does the presence of a large Mexican immigrant population influence the ways later-generation Mexican Americans assert and exercise their ethnic identity? More broadly, how do Mexicans as a group fit into the U.S. ethnoracial mosaic? This theoretically innovative and empirically rigorous book graciously navigates the ideological debates about Mexican assimilation and provides new insights o...

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background: the main objective of this study was to assess the malnutrition and some socio-economic related factors based on three ethnic groups among primary school children in north of iran in 2010 . methods: this cross-sectional study was carried out through multistage cluster random sampling on 5698 subjects (2505 fars-native, 2154 turkman, and 1039 sistani) in 112 schools. well-trained sta...

introduction: a cleft lip with or without a cleft palate is one of the major congenital anomalies observed in newborns. this study explored the risk factors for oral clefts in gorgan, northern iran.  materials and methods: this hospital-based case-control study was performed in three hospitals in gorgan, northern iran between april 2006 and december 2009. the case group contained 33 newborns wi...