Subtractive schooling : U.S.-Mexican youth and the politics of caring /

Subtractive schooling : U.S.-Mexican youth and the politics of caring / Angela Valenzuela.

"Subtractive Schooling provides a framework for understanding the patterns of immigrant achievement and U.S.-born underachievement frequently noted in the literature and observed by the author in her ethnographic account of regular-track youth attending a comprehensive, virtually all-Mexican, i...

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Main Author: Valenzuela, Angela.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©1999.
Series:SUNY series, social context of education.
Subjects:
Mexican Americans > Education (Secondary) > Texas > Case studies.
Children of immigrants > Education (Secondary) > Texas > Case studies.
Mexican American youth > Texas > Social conditions > Case studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Seguín High School in historical perspective: Mexican Americans' struggle for equal educational opportunity in Houston
  • Chapter 3: Teacher-student relations and the politics of caring
  • Chapter 4: Everyday experiences in the lives of immigrant and U.S.-born youth
  • Chapter 5: Subtractive schooling and divisions among youth
  • Chapter 6: Unity in resistance to schooling
  • Chapter 7: Conclusion.

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