During the second half of the twentieth century, health care delivery systems paid only lip service to Latino populations and their special needs. Latino populations have culturally based belief systems, which pose special challenges to the health care delivery system.…
By Mitchell A. Kaplan PhD, Studies in Rio Grande Valley History, Vol. 17, 2020 Introduction Why Immigration Matters in the United States Since the birth of our nation, more than two centuries ago, the United States has been a country…
Introducción Por siglos la humanidad ha participado en la ingestión de plantas con propiedades que alteran la mente como una vía para comunicarse con el mundo de lo sobrenatural. La ingestión de las plantas sacramentales llamadas los enteógenos era una…
Introduction For centuries humanity has engaged in the ingestion of plants with mind-altering properties as a pathway to communicate with the world of the supernatural. The ingestion of sacramental plants called entheogens was a common practice in the ancient Mayan…
By John Burnett and Marisa Penaloza Over the past 41 years, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been buying up land on the lower Texas-Mexico border to protect one of the most biologically diverse regions in North America from…
Antonio N. Zavaleta, Ph.D. and Mitchell A. Kaplan Ph.D. For five hundred years, Indigenous-American and Afro-Caribbean religious beliefs have mixed with highly superstitious sixteenth-century Spanish Roman Catholic beliefs and practices. The emergent ‘combined’ religions are most notably Mexican Brujería, Santeria…
The University of Texas at Brownsville & Texas Southmost College CONGRESO POR LOS DERECHOS DE LA INFANCIA Y LA ADOLESCENCIA Hacia una Nueva Gramática de los Derechos Humanos en Tamaulipas Zavaleta-Reid, Antonio, and Rodrigo Vera Vázquez, 2016, Inmigración infantil en…
Brownsville's recognition as the city with the second most important history in Texas is cause for considerable pride. However, it should be noted that the designation does not take into consideration an equally significant pre-history. While much of Brownsville's history…
By Antonio Noé Zavaleta, Ph.D.[i] and Mitchell A. Kaplan, Ph.D.[ii] INTRODUCTION From 2010 to 2014, the United States experienced an unprecedented rise in undocumented immigration along the Texas-Mexico border.[1] The Lower Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol sector saw the…
The story you are about to read is true. It details a personal fable that has followed me through life and, at times, directed me. So far, it spans more than fifty years and has a life of its own,…
