"How to Make It Here": A Qualitative Study on Generational Narratives of Survival and Success Among Latinx and White Evangelical Communities Along the US/Mexico Border
Date of Award
1-1-2018
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Organizational Unit
Joint Ph.D. Program in Study of Religion
First Advisor
Miguel A. De La Torre, Ph.D.
Second Advisor
Katherine Turpine
Third Advisor
Debora Ortega
Keywords
Christian social ethics, Church of Christ, Evangelical church, Youth faith development
Abstract
This dissertation maintains that a primary method of accumulating and transmitting cultural capital across generations is survival narratives. In this study, a "survival narrative" is best understood as counsel passed down from older to younger generations designed to help the younger generation understand, survive and succeed in contemporary U.S. culture. The study is a qualitative project in liberative social ethics rooted in constructivist qualitative inquiry and is specifically a phenomenological project. Results of the study revealed four different types of survival narratives in six different categories specific to this study. The research questions explore issues of ethnicity in evangelical borderland communities and contrast Latinx survival narratives with white survival narratives in religious and educative contexts. Findings also revealed gendered narratives, class-based narratives, and the glaring absence of helpful narratives around sexuality, filtered through the lenses of religion and education. The study concludes that true survival narratives were not the messages delivered to the participants but were instead the narratives participants constructed in response to the evangelical church.
Publication Statement
Copyright held by the author. Permanently suppressed.
Rights Holder
Cari Myers
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
File Format
application/pdf
Language
en
File Size
318 p.
Recommended Citation
Myers, Cari, ""How to Make It Here": A Qualitative Study on Generational Narratives of Survival and Success Among Latinx and White Evangelical Communities Along the US/Mexico Border" (2018). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1467.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/1467
Copyright date
2018
Discipline
Religion, Social research, Religious education