Avelardo Valdez
Biographic Data
| ID | 104277 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Avelardo Valdez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Avelardo |
| FAMILY NAME | Valdez |
| SIGNATURE | VALDEZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5288-7748 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
HIV prevention and crack harm reduction using projection mapping in Mexico City
Objective: Crack cocaine use has increased rapidly throughout Mexico, along with rising HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections among vulnerable groups. The Tirando Esquina: Interviniendo Muros de Salud (TE:IMS) project uses projection-mapping technology and is the first of its kind to reach and provide health education at an individual and community level to at-risk crack smoking populations in Mexico City. Setting: This intervention project …
Characterizing prescription opioid, heroin, and fentanyl initiation trajectories: A qualitative study
Ethnic discrimination and self-rated health among Hispanic emerging adults: Examining the moderating effects of self-esteem and resilience
Syndemic Profiles for HIV, Hepatitis C, and Sextually Transmitted Infections Among Mexican American Women Formerly Affiliated with Youth Street Gangs
Incarceration Trajectories of Women Who Are Mothers: A Nationally Representative Study of State and Federal Prisoners
Despite growing research on women’s offending trajectories, knowledge on the imprisonment experiences of women who are mothers is limited. This study used a nationally representative dataset of state and federal prisoners to identify and characterize subgroups of mothers based on incarceration histories. Group-based trajectory modeling identified four groups with distinct incarceration trajectories: stable escalating group, moderate declining gro…
Incarceration Trajectories and Mental Health Problems Among Mothers Imprisoned in State and Federal Correctional Facilities: A Nationwide Study
Crack cocaine use among aging Mexican American men with heroin use histories: Motivations and polydrug use patterns
Background Knowledge about the motivations for crack cocaine use and the long-term effects among people who inject heroin is limited. This study aims to understand motivations associated with this co-use drug pattern among aging men entrenched in established intergenerational heroin subcultures. Methods: A sample of 60 men with diverse injecting heroin use histories was recruited from low-income Mexican American urban communities for semi-structu…
Programa conexões universidade-escola: Cenários e contextos de uma aprendizagem significativa em Química
A História e a Epistemologia da Ciência têm influenciado diversas discussões nas últimas décadas em contexturas do Ensino de Química, tendo em vista sua potencial contribuição à compreensão de seus conceitos/princípios. Este artigo traz novos elementos que corroboram com essa reflexão, ao apresentar e aplicar, junto a uma turma de 2° ano do Ensino Médio de uma escola pública do município de Lavras do Sul/RS, no período letivo de 2019, uma propost…
Maternal incarceration trajectories and the intergenerational transmission of imprisonment: A nationwide study
They Dumped Me Like Trash”: The Social and Psychological Toll of Victimization on Latino Day Laborers' Lives
Highlights Latino day laborers are vulnerable to crime victimization in new immigrant settlement cities. Victimization led to sociocultural alienation, despair or desesperación, and problem drinking. Findings highlight the intersection of structural vulnerability, violence, and mental health
Incarceration History and Depressive Symptoms Among Women Released from US Correctional Facilities: Does Timing, Duration, or Frequency Matter
Deconstructing US Marijuana Prohibition Policies in the Early Twentieth Century
In the early 1900s, cannabis was used widely as a medicinal drug. However, through the fi rst half of the twentieth century, marijuana became negatively associated with Mexican-origin populations in the United States. Anglo American views of race and class became central to the creation of legislation prohibiting marijuana. This article provides a sociohistorical analysis of the 1910-1930s period, when the cannabis prohibition movement was at its…
Interpersonal Partner Relationships, Bonds to Children, and Informal Social Control among Persistent Male Offenders
This qualitative study applied a life course framework to characterize the nature of interpersonal partner relationships of Mexican American young adult men affiliated with street gangs during their adolescence. Data come from a 15-year longitudinal mixed-method cohort study conducted in San Antonio, Texas. We analyzed semi-structured interviews conducted with a subsample (n = 40) during the course of three face-to-face sessions to explore the me…
Behavioral, Psychological, Gender, and Health Service Correlates to Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Infection among Young Adult Mexican-American Women Living in a Disadvantaged Community
Herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) is among the most prevalent sexually transmitted infections in the United States. Despite this, there has been limited research on the correlates to HSV-2 among disadvantaged and marginalized women, particularly among Latinas. Data for the present analysis include 125 young adult Mexican-American women enrolled in a longitudinal study in a disadvantaged urban community in San Antonio, Texas. The current rate of…
HIV and STI knowledge, testing, and risk among adult crack users in Mexico city: Baseline findings from a feasibility study
Recent research has documented crack cocaine's increasing spread in Mexico, which is likely to contribute to the rapid transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). In Mexico, crack use is increasing most rapidly in vulnerable, hard-to-reach populations, where little is known about risk behaviors. This report aims to present baseline data regarding HIV and STI knowledge and testing prevalence from an innovative projection …
Un Jalón, Un Volteón, y Otra Vez: High-Risk Crack Smoking Paraphernalia in México City
During the past decade, crack smoking has increased in Mexico among poor urban populations. Despite this increasing prevalence, little is known about the types of paraphernalia used and related sharing practices and physical harms. Data come from in-depth semi-structured interviews and observations with 156 current crack smokers in Mexico City. Findings reveal a complex, crack-smoking process in Mexico City that represents an interconnected struc…
Injecting Drug Use Among Mexican Female Sex Workers on the US-Mexico Border
Both injecting drug users (IDU) and sex workers are at great risk of contracting and transmitting HIV. Therefore, IDU sex workers could be at especially high risk. The recent increase of HIV infection in Mexico has caused increased attention to sex work. We identify the correlates of injecting drug use including socio-demographic, work history, and sexual and non-injecting drug use risk behaviors among Mexican female sex workers. There is a high …
Emerging patterns of crack use in Mexico City
Trajectories of Aging Long-Term Mexican American Heroin Injectors: The “Maturing Out” Paradox
Results highlight the implications for the intersection of heroin-related conditions, natural age-related impairments, and cognitive functioning that make this population increasingly susceptible to adverse health consequences
An Adapted Brief Strategic Family Therapy for Gang-Affiliated Mexican American Adolescents
Objective: This study assessed the effectiveness of an adapted Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT) intervention for gang-affiliated Mexican American adolescents and their parents. Methods: A total of 200 adolescents and their family caregivers were randomized to either a treatment or a control condition. Outcomes included adolescent substance use, conflict resolution, gang identification, parent substance use knowledge, gang awareness, family c…
The Relationship Between Trajectories of Family/Cultural Stressors and Depression and Suicidal Ideation Among Substance Using Mexican‐American Adults
We used an intersectional minority stress perspective to examine the association between family/cultural stress and mental health among substance‐using Mexican‐Americans. Employing a unique longitudinal sample of 239 socioeconomically disadvantaged, non‐injecting heroin‐using Mexican‐Americans from San Antonio, Texas, we examined how culturally relevant stressors are related to depression and suicidal ideation. First, we identified depression and…
Crime Victimization Among Immigrant Latino Day Laborers in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Reports indicate that the criminal victimization of Latino immigrants in the United States has been increasing yet is often underreported. This may be especially true in new immigrant settlement cities that lack an established Latino community to provide support and feelings of security. New Orleans is an important context to investigate criminal victimization as it has experienced a large demographic shift in Latino composition post–Hurricane Ka…
Health Consequences of Long-Term Injection Heroin Use Among Aging Mexican American Men
This population has a complex profile of health consequences linked to a heroin-using lifestyle. The study concludes that routine screening of infectious diseases and medical and behavioral conditions among aging substance using populations may contribute to reducing Hispanic health disparities
The Association Between Disaster-Related Experiences and Mental Health Outcomes Among Drug Using African American Hurricane Katrina Evacuees
Patterns of substance use among Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Houston, Texas
This paper focuses on changing patterns of substance use among low income, African American drug users evacuated from New Orleans, Louisiana, during Hurricane Katrina of August 2005. It examines the relationship between increases and decreases in alcohol and tobacco (AT) use and illicit drug (ID) use after Katrina and pre-disaster and within-disaster factors. Data from structured interviews with 200 Katrina evacuees currently living in Houston we…
Risk Behaviors Among Young Mexican American Gang-Associated Females: Sexual Relations, Partying, Substance Use, and Crime
This research focuses on young Mexican American girls who are not formal gang members yet participate in street-based activities of male gangs and engage in risk behaviors. These females comprise a larger proportion associated with male gangs in inner-city neighborhoods than actual female gang members. Using a qualitative design, the article presents a typology of Mexican American females that reveals a hierarchy based on exposure to four risk-re…
Teaching Mexican American Experiences through Film: Private Issues and Public Problems
This article focuses on the use of feature films as a pedagogical tool in sociology classes. Sociological and cinematic representations are used to contribute to an understanding of the Mexican American experience. An interpretive procedure, or hermeneutics, is used as a methodology that provides an encounter between the student's experience, film, and social science texts. As well, the Millsian relation between personal problems and social issue…
Patterns of substance use among Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Houston, Texas
This paper focuses on changing patterns of substance use among low income, African American drug users evacuated from New Orleans, Louisiana, during Hurricane Katrina of August 2005. It examines the relationship between increases and decreases in alcohol and tobacco (AT) use and illicit drug (ID) use after Katrina and pre-disaster and within-disaster factors. Data from structured interviews with 200 Katrina evacuees currently living in Houston we…
The Influence of Family and Peer Risk Networks on Drug Use Practices and Other Risks among Mexican American Noninjecting Heroin Users
Noninjecting heroin use (NIU) is spreading among social networks of young Mexican American polydrug users. This article examines the influence of family and peer networks on NIU behavior and other drug practices and risks. This study delineates the extent to which a culturally relevant modification of the "network facilitation" theoretical approach can increase both a theoretical and practical understanding of drug use and related risk behaviors.…
An Adapted Brief Strategic Family Therapy for Gang-Affiliated Mexican American Adolescents
Objective: This study assessed the effectiveness of an adapted Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT) intervention for gang-affiliated Mexican American adolescents and their parents. Methods: A total of 200 adolescents and their family caregivers were randomized to either a treatment or a control condition. Outcomes included adolescent substance use, conflict resolution, gang identification, parent substance use knowledge, gang awareness, family c…
Crime Victimization Among Immigrant Latino Day Laborers in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Reports indicate that the criminal victimization of Latino immigrants in the United States has been increasing yet is often underreported. This may be especially true in new immigrant settlement cities that lack an established Latino community to provide support and feelings of security. New Orleans is an important context to investigate criminal victimization as it has experienced a large demographic shift in Latino composition post–Hurricane Ka…
The Process of Paradoxical Autonomy and Survival in the Heroin Careers of Mexican American Women
This study focuses on the process of paradoxical autonomy and survival in the heroin careers of Mexican American women. We explore how gender roles among Mexican American female heroin users influence the emergence of a paradoxical autonomy. Five key subprocesses of this autonomy were identified from 14 life history narratives: sustaining employment, working the welfare system, illegal activities, emotional aloofness, and loss of family and child…
Gender in the Culture of Mexican American Conjunto Music
This article examines the role of gender in the culture of conjunto music, a Mexican American musical genre. It describes how gender is articulated with factors of ethnicity and class in the context of the conjunto setting and performance. The authors examine the structure of gender relations, socialization, and resistance, and they attempt to identify the effects within patriarchy on the forms of adaptation and power available to women in conjun…
Ethnic discrimination and self-rated health among Hispanic emerging adults: Examining the moderating effects of self-esteem and resilience
They Dumped Me Like Trash”: The Social and Psychological Toll of Victimization on Latino Day Laborers' Lives
Highlights Latino day laborers are vulnerable to crime victimization in new immigrant settlement cities. Victimization led to sociocultural alienation, despair or desesperación, and problem drinking. Findings highlight the intersection of structural vulnerability, violence, and mental health
Health Consequences of Long-Term Injection Heroin Use Among Aging Mexican American Men
This population has a complex profile of health consequences linked to a heroin-using lifestyle. The study concludes that routine screening of infectious diseases and medical and behavioral conditions among aging substance using populations may contribute to reducing Hispanic health disparities
Chicano Used Car Dealers: A Social World in Microcosm
This research examines the role of Chicano used car dealers as intermediaries between barrio residents, the community, and the larger economy. The study describes a hierarchy of used car dealers, race and ethnic relations in the used car business, the nature of profit in these settings, and business alternatives of barrio dealers. The roles and social organization of Chicanos in the used car business demonstrate the effect of larger societal forc…
Maternal incarceration trajectories and the intergenerational transmission of imprisonment: A nationwide study
Interpersonal Partner Relationships, Bonds to Children, and Informal Social Control among Persistent Male Offenders
This qualitative study applied a life course framework to characterize the nature of interpersonal partner relationships of Mexican American young adult men affiliated with street gangs during their adolescence. Data come from a 15-year longitudinal mixed-method cohort study conducted in San Antonio, Texas. We analyzed semi-structured interviews conducted with a subsample (n = 40) during the course of three face-to-face sessions to explore the me…
Trajectories of Aging Long-Term Mexican American Heroin Injectors: The “Maturing Out” Paradox
Results highlight the implications for the intersection of heroin-related conditions, natural age-related impairments, and cognitive functioning that make this population increasingly susceptible to adverse health consequences
The Association Between Disaster-Related Experiences and Mental Health Outcomes Among Drug Using African American Hurricane Katrina Evacuees
Chicano Used Car Dealers: A Social World in Microcosm
This research examines the role of Chicano used car dealers as intermediaries between barrio residents, the community, and the larger economy. The study describes a hierarchy of used car dealers, race and ethnic relations in the used car business, the nature of profit in these settings, and business alternatives of barrio dealers. The roles and social organization of Chicanos in the used car business demonstrate the effect of larger societal forc…
Honor and the American Dream: Culture and Identity in a Chicano Community
Thirty-second Street in Chicago. A Chicano community, peaceful on a warm summer night, residents socializing, children playing--and gang warfare ready to explode at any time. Ruth Horowitz takes us to the heart of this world, one characterized by opposing sets of values. On the one hand, residents believe in hard work, education, family ties, and the American dream of success. On the other hand, gang members are preoccupied with fighting to maint…
Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986
The Mexican-American Border Region: Issues and Trends
The Rise of the Mexican American Middle Class: San Antonio, 1929-1941
Illegal Drug Use, Alcohol and Aggressive Crime Among Mexican-American and White Male Arrestees in San Antonio
This research explores the relationship between use of certain drugs and aggressive crimes among Mexican-American and White male arrestees in San Antonio, Texas, for 1992. This is based on a Drug Use Forecasting (DUF) sample of 534 male arrestees administered a drug urine analysis test and questionnaire by the Department of Justice and the city of San Antonio. Using a four-way asymmetrical analysis, logit-models were tested to examine the relatio…
Gender in the Culture of Mexican American Conjunto Music
This article examines the role of gender in the culture of conjunto music, a Mexican American musical genre. It describes how gender is articulated with factors of ethnicity and class in the context of the conjunto setting and performance. The authors examine the structure of gender relations, socialization, and resistance, and they attempt to identify the effects within patriarchy on the forms of adaptation and power available to women in conjun…
Teaching Mexican American Experiences through Film: Private Issues and Public Problems
This article focuses on the use of feature films as a pedagogical tool in sociology classes. Sociological and cinematic representations are used to contribute to an understanding of the Mexican American experience. An interpretive procedure, or hermeneutics, is used as a methodology that provides an encounter between the student's experience, film, and social science texts. As well, the Millsian relation between personal problems and social issue…
Culture and rationalization: The impact of a national foundation initiative on a community‐based cultural arts center∗
The Process of Paradoxical Autonomy and Survival in the Heroin Careers of Mexican American Women
This study focuses on the process of paradoxical autonomy and survival in the heroin careers of Mexican American women. We explore how gender roles among Mexican American female heroin users influence the emergence of a paradoxical autonomy. Five key subprocesses of this autonomy were identified from 14 life history narratives: sustaining employment, working the welfare system, illegal activities, emotional aloofness, and loss of family and child…
Culture et rationalisation: L'impact d'un programme d'une fondation nationale sur un centre culturel et artistique communautaire
Le présent article traite de l’impact d’un important programme de subvention d’une des fondations majeures nationales sur un centre culturel et artistique de la communauté mexicaine-américaine, situé dans une grande ville du Sud-Ouest des États-Unis. Nous nous penchons en particulier sur ce que Max Weber a identifié comme le problème de la rationalisation. Le point central est que la poursuite de l’efficacité et de l’organisation rationnelle tend…
Risk Behaviors Among Young Mexican American Gang-Associated Females: Sexual Relations, Partying, Substance Use, and Crime
This research focuses on young Mexican American girls who are not formal gang members yet participate in street-based activities of male gangs and engage in risk behaviors. These females comprise a larger proportion associated with male gangs in inner-city neighborhoods than actual female gang members. Using a qualitative design, the article presents a typology of Mexican American females that reveals a hierarchy based on exposure to four risk-re…
Intimate Partner Violence Among Hispanic Females
Intimate partner violence poses a major public health and social problem with serious criminal justice, health and social-related consequences. However, little is known about the etiology of intimate partner violence among young people, especially minority youth. Using the Hispanic Stress Inventory, we examine intimate partner violence among Hispanics, particularly Mexican American adolescent females. Understanding and identifying issues related …
Mexican American Music
A Situational Analysis of Dating Violence among Mexican American Females Associated with Street Gangs
This study focuses on situational processes associated with dating partner violence among adolescent Mexican American females in an economically disadvantaged community. Using qualitative data generated from a specific question in a life history instrument, the questionnaire was administered to 150 high-risk Mexican American gang-affiliated female respondents (ages 147–18). To generate the analysis, the data were coded using the constructs of pre…
Work on the West Side: Urban Neighborhoods and the Cultural Exclusion of Youths
The Role of Stress, Family Coping, Ethnic Identity, and Mother-Daughter Relationships on Substance Use Among Gang-Affiliated Hispanic Females
Hispanic adolescent females are the largest group of minority adolescents in the nation and appear to be at great risk for substance use. This research is based on data generated from a cross-sectional study of 150 Mexican American gang-affiliated adolescent females to predict substance-use recurrence. Findings reveal that positive family relationships, and in particular, mother-daughter relationships are protective factors for alcohol- and tobac…
The Drugs-Violence Nexus Among Mexican-American Gang Members
This study examines hypotheses and builds models to help clarify the causal connections between drugs and violence outcomes among Mexican-American male gang members. The study uses cross-sectional data of 160 male gang members sampled from 26 gangs in a Southwestern city. A life-history /intensive interview using closed and open-ended questions and a violence risk psychometric test (PFAV) also employed 10 scenario questions to elicit self-produce…
Potential Risk Factors for Injecting Among Mexican American Non-Injecting Heroin Users
This study examines potential risk factors for resuming and transitioning to injecting among a prospective cohort of 300 Mexican American non-injecting heroin users (NIUs) with distinct injecting histories (i.e., never vs. former injectors). Overall, findings revealed NIUs with an injecting history are more likely to be at greater risk for resuming injecting practices. Of interest, scoring high on acculturation decreased the risk of being a forme…
Heroin transition risk among daily and non-daily cannabis users who are non-injectors of heroin
The Truce: Lessons from an L.A. Gang War
Book Review| October 01 2008 The Truce: Lessons from an L.A. Gang War The Truce: Lessons from an L.A. Gang War, Karen Umemoto. Avelardo Valdez Avelardo Valdez Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2008) 28 (1): 115–117. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501887 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Avelardo Valdez; The Truce: Lessons from a…
The Influence of Family and Peer Risk Networks on Drug Use Practices and Other Risks among Mexican American Noninjecting Heroin Users
Noninjecting heroin use (NIU) is spreading among social networks of young Mexican American polydrug users. This article examines the influence of family and peer networks on NIU behavior and other drug practices and risks. This study delineates the extent to which a culturally relevant modification of the "network facilitation" theoretical approach can increase both a theoretical and practical understanding of drug use and related risk behaviors.…
Fumando La Piedra: Emerging Patterns of Crack Use Among Latino Immigrant Day Laborers in New Orleans
The Association Between Disaster-Related Experiences and Mental Health Outcomes Among Drug Using African American Hurricane Katrina Evacuees
Patterns of substance use among Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Houston, Texas
This paper focuses on changing patterns of substance use among low income, African American drug users evacuated from New Orleans, Louisiana, during Hurricane Katrina of August 2005. It examines the relationship between increases and decreases in alcohol and tobacco (AT) use and illicit drug (ID) use after Katrina and pre-disaster and within-disaster factors. Data from structured interviews with 200 Katrina evacuees currently living in Houston we…
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