2nd Edition
Issues in Latino Education Race, School Culture, and the Politics of Academic Success
FOREWORD Jim Cummins
PREFACE
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 2. CONCEPTUAL UNDERPINNINGS OF LATINO SCHOOL SUCCESS AND FAILURE
CHAPTER 3. ¿QUÉ PASA? LATINOS: FROM THE MOST NUMEROUS TO THE MOST NEGLECTED
CHAPTER 4. ROLE OF THE MEDIA IN THE TRANSMISSION OF IDEOLOGIES RELATED TO LATINO STUDENTS
CHAPTER 5. INTRODUCING MANNY: "THERE’S MORE THAN WHITES OUT THERE"
CHAPTER 6. INTRODUCING CARLA: "THIS IS AMERICA AND HERE YOU SPEAK ENGLISH"
CHAPTER 7. INTRODUCING THE EDUCATORS
CHAPTER 8. TOWARD A SELF-DEFINITION OF SUCCESS
Chapter 9. CONCLUSION: STUDENTS’ CONCERNS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL REFORM
EPILOGUE
POSTSCRIPT: WHAT DOES THE 2016 ELECTION MEAN FOR LATINOS IN THE U.S?
APPENDIX
GLOSSARY
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
INDEX
Biography
Mariella Espinoza-Herold is Associate Professor of Multicultural/Bilingual Education, Northern Arizona University, USA.
Ricardo González-Carriedo is Assistant Professor of Bilingual and ESL Education, University of North Texas, USA.
"Issues in Latino Education takes on the national reality of the growing chasm between youth and communities with and without access to opportunity, resources, and power. Juxtaposing the testimony of Latino/a youth with the responses of their teachers, Professors Mariella Espinoza-Herold and Ricardo González-Carriedo create a telling portrait of the school dynamics that undermine these young people’s identities, even as the youth fight to ‘become someone’ and secure ‘the American Dream.’ Joining critical theory and anthropological analyses of school achievement for minoritized youth, Espinoza-Herold and González-Carriedo forge new theoretical ground that can only be gleaned from the students’ point of view. Equally important, the authors foreground the youth’s concrete recommendations for school reform. A critical-ethnographic account that poses answers as well as questions, Issues in Latino Education is a moving narrative and a compelling call for change."
Teresa L. McCarty, GF Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
