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Subtractive schooling : U.S.-Mexican youth and the politics of caring
- Title
- Subtractive schooling : U.S.-Mexican youth and the politics of caring / Angela Valenzuela.
- Author
- Valenzuela, Angela
- Publication
- Albany [New York] : State University of New York Press, [1999]
- ©1999
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Details
- Description
- xviii, 328 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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, inner-city high school in Houston. Valenzuela argues that schools subtract resources from youth in two major ways: firstly by dismissing their definition of education and secondly through assimilationist policies and practices that minimize their culture and language. A key consequence is the erosion of students' social capital evident in the absence of academically oriented networks among acculturated, U.S.-born youth."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- SUNY series, the social context of education
- Uniform Title
- SUNY series, social context of education
- Subject
- Mexican Americans > Education (Secondary) > Texas > Case studies
- Children of immigrants > Education (Secondary) > Texas > Case studies
- Mexican American youth > Texas > Social conditions > Case studies
- Children of immigrants > Education (Secondary)
- Mexican American youth > Social conditions
- Mexican Americans > Education (Secondary)
- Fallstudiensammlung
- Mexikanischer Jugendlicher
- Schule
- Onderwijsverzorging
- Onderwijsbeleid
- Jongeren
- Mexicanen
- Texas
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- Case studies.
- Études de cas.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-319) and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0791443221
- 9780791443224
- 0791443213
- 9780791443217
- LCCN
- 98043568
- OCLC
- ocm40338437
- 40338437
- SCSB-8919759
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library