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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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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
Subjects
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