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Despite generations of protest, activism and reform efforts, Latinos continue to be among the nation's most educationally disadvantaged and economically disenfranchised groups. Challenging static notions of culture, identity and language, Latinos and Education addresses this phenomenon within the context of a rapidly changing economy and society. This reader establishes a clear link between educational practice and the structural dimensions which shape institutional life, and calls for the development of a new language that moves beyond disciplinary and racialized categories of difference and structural inequality.
Contents
INTRODUCTION -- Antonia Darder, Rodolfo D. Torres, and Henry Gutirrez Foreward - Arturo Madrid I. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY 1. Mario Barrera -- A Theory of Racial Inequality 2. Sonia M. Prez and Denise de la Rosa Salazar -- Economic, Labor Force and Social Implications of Latino Educational and Population Trends 3. Hector R. Cordero Guzman -- The Structure of Inequality and the Status of Puerto Rican Youth in the U.S. 4. Rodofo D. Torres and Adela de la Torre -- Latinos, Class, and the U.S. Political Economy: Income Inequality and Policy Alternatives II. HISTORICAL VIEWS OF LATINOS AND SCHOOLING 5. George I. Sanchez -- History, Culture, and Education 6. Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr. -- Roused from Our Slumbers 7. Gilbert G. Gonzalez -- Culture, Language, and the Americanization of Mexican Children 8. Juan Flores and George Y dice -- Living Borders/Buscando Amrica: Languages of Latino Self-Formation III. CONSTRUCTING LATINO(A) IDENTITIES 9. Gonzalo Santos -- Somos RUNAFRIBES? The Future of Latino Ethnicity in the Americas 10. Martha E. Gimenez -- Latino/Hispanic--Who Needs a Name?: The Case Against a Standardized Terminology 11. Rafael Prez-Torres -- Nomads and Migrants: Negotiating a Multicultural Postmodernism 12. Gloria Anzaldua -- Movimientos de Rebeldua y Las Culturas que Traicionan IV. THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE 13. Donaldo Macedo -- English Only: The Tongue-Tying of America 14. John J. Attinasi -- Racism, Language Variety, and Urban Minorities: Issues in Bilingualism and Bidialectalism 15. Ana Celia Zentella -- Returned Migration, Language, and Identity: Puerto Rican Bilinguals in Dos Worlds/Two Mundos 16. Richard Ruiz -- The Empowerment of Language-Minority Students V. CULTURAL DEMOCRACY AND SCHOOLING 17. Antonia Darder -- Creating the Conditions for Cultural Democracy in the Classroom 18. Daniel G. Solorzano -- Teaching and Social Change: Reflections on a Freirean Approach in a College Classroom 19. Eugene E. Garcia -- Effective Instruction for Language Minority Students: The Teacher 20. Tamara Lucas, Rosemary Henze, and Ruben Donato -- Promoting the Success of Latino Language-Minority Students: An Exploratory Study of Six High Schools 21. Mario Garcia -- Education and the Mexican American: Eleuterio Escobar and the School Improvement League of San Antonio VI. LATINOS AND HIGHER EDUCATION 22. Maria de la Luz Reyes and John J. Halcon -- Racism in Academia: The Old Wolf Revisited 23. Carlos Munoz, Jr. -- The Quest for Paradigm: The Development of Chicano Studies and Intellectuals 24. Melba J. T. Vasquez -- Confronting Barriers to the Participation of Mexican American Women in Higher Education 25. Michael A. Olivas -- Research on Latino College Students: A Theoretical Framework and Inquiry
