Full Description
This critical anthology showcases an interdisciplinary forum of scholars sharing a common interest in the analysis, discussion, critique, and dissemination of educational issues impacting Latinos. Drawing on the best of the past 20 years of the Journal of Latinos and Education, the collection highlights work that has been seminal in addressing complex educational issues affecting and influencing the growing Latina and Latino population. Chapters discuss the production and application of wisdom and knowledge to real-world problems while engaging and collaborating with the interests of key stakeholders in other sectors outside the "traditional" academy. Organized thematically around issues related to policy, research, practice, and creative and literary works, the collection is sure to extend and encourage novel ways of thinking about the ongoing and emerging questions around the unifying thread of Latinos and education.
Contents
Biographical Sketch
El Futuro es Nuestro: From the Editor's Desk
Credits
SECTION I
Tasks
1 "Mexican Americans Don't Value Education!"—On the Basis of the Myth, Mythmaking, and Debunking
RICHARD R. VALENCIA AND MARY S. BLACK
2 Funds of Knowledge: An Approach to Studying Latina(o) Students' Transition to College
CECILIA RIOS-AGUILAR AND JUDY MARQUEZ KIYAMA
3 All for Our Children: Migrant Families and Parent Participation in an Alternative Education Program
PABLO JASIS AND DOUGLAS MARRIOTT
4 Quantitative Intersectionality: A Critical Race Analysis of the Chicana/o Educational Pipeline
ALEJANDRO COVARRUBIAS
5 Challenges Facing Hispanic-Serving Institutions in the First Decade of the 21st Century
ALFREDO G. DE LOS SANTOS JR. AND KARINA MICHELLE CUAMEA
5 Nuestro Camino: A Review of Literature Surrounding the Latino Teacher Pipeline
KELLY M. OCASIO
SECTION II
Themes
7 Francisco Maestas et al. v. George H. Shone et al.: Mexican American Resistance to School Segregation in the Hispano Homeland, 1912-1914
RUBEN DONATO, GONZALO GUZMÁN, AND JARROD HANSON
8 Latino English Language Learners: Bridging Achievement and Cultural Gaps Between Schools and Families
MARY ELLEN GOOD, SOPHIA MASEWICZ, AND LINDA VOGEL
9 Understanding Latina/o School Pushout: Experiences of Students Who Left School Before Graduating
NORA LUNA AND ANITA TIJERINA REVILLA
10 Compartiendo Nuestras Historias: Five Testimonios of Schooling and Survival
WANDA ALARCÓN, CINDY CRUZ, LINDA GUARDIA JACKSON, LINDA PRIETO, AND SANDRA RODRIGUEZ-ARROYO
11 The Value of Education and Educación: Nurturing Mexican American Children's Educational Aspirations to the Doctorate
MICHELLE M. ESPINO
12 Mapping and Recontextualizing the Evolution of the Term Latinx: An Environmental Scanning in Higher Education
CRISTOBAL SALINAS JR. AND ADELE LOZANO
SECTION III
Solutions
13 Abuelita Epistemologies: Counteracting Subtractive Schools in American Education
SANDRA M. GONZALES
14 Sustaining a Dual Language Immersion Program: Features of Success
ILIANA ALANÍS AND MARIELA A. RODRÍGUEZ
15 Beginning With El Barrio: Learning From Exemplary Teachers of Latino Students
JASON G. IRIZARRY AND JOHN RAIBLE
16 The Relationship Between a College Preparation Program and At-Risk Students' College Readiness
JENNIFER T. CATES AND SCOTT E. SCHAEFLE
17 Latina/o Parent Organizing for Educational Justice: An Ethnographic Account of Community Building and Radical Healing
KYSA NYGREEN
18 Dream Big: Exploring Empowering Processes of DREAM Act Advocacy in a Focal State
BRAD FORENZA AND CAROLINA MENDONCA
19 Multiple Ethnic, Racial, and Cultural Identities in Action: From Marginality to a New Cultural Capital in Modern Society
HENRY T. TRUEBA
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