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3. Jonathan Kozol. 2005. Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid. Vol. 311. New York, NY: The Crown Publishing Group, 3

4. Jonathan Kozol. 2005. Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid. Vol. 311. New York, NY: The Crown Publishing Group, 26-27

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7. Jennifer Alvidrez and Rhona Weinstein. 1999. Early Teacher Perceptions and Later Student Academic Achievement. Journal of Educational Psychology 91, no. 4:739-740

8. Richard Fry. 2006. The Changing Landscape of American Public Education: New Students, New Schools. Washington, DC: Pew Hispanic Center, 38

9. Robert Slavin. 2003. Educational Psychology: Theory and Practice. Edited by Arnis Burvikovs, Matthew Forster. 7th ed. United States of America: Pearson Education, Inc., 320-321

10. Charles Terrell and Laura Castillo-Page, eds. Diversity in the Physician Workforce:Facts and Figures 2006 (Washington D.C., Association of American Medical Colleges, 2006) :15, http://services.aamc.org/Publications/showfile.cfm?file=version74.pdf&prd_id=161&prv_id=191&pdf_id=74 (accessed December 1, 2006).

11. Charles Terrell and Laura Castillo-Page, eds. Diversity in the Physician Workforce:Facts and Figures 2006 (Washington D.C., Association of American Medical Colleges, 2006) :17, http://services.aamc.org/Publications/showfile.cfm?file=version74.pdf&prd_id=161&prv_id=191&pdf_id=74 (accessed December 1, 2006).

12. Alexandra Stern, ". Buildings, boundaries, and blood: Medicalization and nation-building on the U.S.-Mexico border, 1910-1930," The Hispanic American Historical Review, February 1999, 2.

13. Alexandra Stern, ". Buildings, boundaries, and blood: Medicalization and nation-building on the U.S.-Mexico border, 1910-1930," The Hispanic American Historical Review, February 1999, 1.

14. Alexandra Stern, ". Buildings, boundaries, and blood: Medicalization and nation-building on the U.S.-Mexico border, 1910-1930," The Hispanic American Historical Review, February 1999, 3.

15. Elena Guitierrez, "Policing "Pregnant Pilgrims":Situating the Sterilization Abuse of Mexican-Origin Women in Los Angeles County," in Women, Health Nation: Canada and the United States since 1945, ed. Georgina Feldberg, Molly Ladd-Taylor, Allison Li and Kathryn McPherson (Montreal: McGil-Queen's University Press, 2003), 379.

16. Elena Guitierrez, "Policing "Pregnant Pilgrims":Situating the Sterilization Abuse of Mexican-Origin Women in Los Angeles County," in Women, Health Nation: Canada and the United States since 1945, ed. Georgina Feldberg, Molly Ladd-Taylor, Allison Li and Kathryn McPherson (Montreal: McGil-Queen's University Press, 2003), 380.

17. Elena Guitierrez, "Policing "Pregnant Pilgrims":Situating the Sterilization Abuse of Mexican-Origin Women in Los Angeles County," in Women, Health Nation: Canada and the United States since 1945, ed. Georgina Feldberg, Molly Ladd-Taylor, Allison Li and Kathryn McPherson (Montreal: McGil-Queen's University Press, 2003), 393.

18. Department of Health and Human Services. "Hispanic or Latino Populations" http://www.cdc.gov/omh/Populations/HL/HL.html . ( Accessed November 20,2006).

19. Alexandra M. Stern. "Medical Discourse and the Latina/o Immigrant Body". Lecture.The University of Michigan. 4. (November 28, 2006).

20. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. "The Diabetes Epidemic Among Hispanic and Latino Americans. in U.S." Department of Health and Human Services . http://www.ndep.nih.gov/diabetes/pubs/FS_HispLatino_Eng.pdf.. (Accessed November 5,2006).

21.Anonymous. "Latinos Disproportionately Affected by HIV/Aids, Less Likely to Be Tested, Treated". Kaiser Family Foundations. http://www.thebody.com/kaiser/2003/jul25_03/latinos_hiv.html. (Accessed November 15,2006)

22.The Kaiser Family Foundation. "Latinos and HIV/Aids". http://www.kff.org/hivaids/upload/6007-03.pdf. (Accessed November 16,2006)

23.National Alliance of State and Territorial Aids Directors. "NASTAD Supports and Commemorates National Latino HIV/AIDS Awareness Day". http://www.nastad.org/Docs/Public/InFocus/20061020_NLAAD_06 Press Release_MP_Draft2.doc. Accessed November 17, 2006.