Full Description
This volume highlights issues of power, inequality, and resistance for Asian, African American, and Latino/a students in distinct U.S. and international contexts. Through a collection of case studies it links universal issues relating to inequality in education, such as Asian, Latino, and African American males in the inner-city neighborhoods, Latina teachers and single mothers in California, undocumented youth from Mexico and El Salvador, immigrant Morrocan youth in Spain, and immigrant Afro-Caribbean and Indian teenagers in New York and in London. The volume explores the processes that keep students thriving academically and socially, and outlines the patterns that exist among individuals—students, teachers, parents—to resist the hegemony of the dominant class and school failure. With emphasis on racial formation theory, this volume fundamentally argues that education, despite inequality, remains the best hope of achieving the American dream.
Contents
Introduction SEAN DRAKE, GILBERTO Q. CONCHAS, BRIANA M. HINGA,AND MICHAEL A. GOTTFRIED PART I: Overview 1 Conceptualizing Disparity and Opportunity in Education as a Racial Project: A Comparative Perspective ALEX ROMEO LIN, SEAN DRAKE, AND GILBERTO Q. CONCHAS PART II: Boys and Men of Color: Resilience and the Construction of Urban School Success 2 The Problematization of Cambodian Adolescent Boys in U.S. Schools: Beyond the Model Minority Stereotype of Asian American Youth VICHET CHHUON 3 "I Am Not the Stereotype": How an Academic Club in an Urban School Empowered Black Male Youth to Succeed SEAN DRAKE, GILBERTO Q. CONCHAS, AND LETICIA OSEGUERA 4 Dynamics of Urban Neighborhood Reciprocity: Latino Peer Ties, Violence, and the Navigation of School Failure and Success MARÍA G. RENDÓN PART III: Gender, Self-Identity, and the Cultivation of Sociopolitical Resistance 5 Beyond "Warming Up" and "Cooling Out": The Effects of Community College on a Diverse Group of Disadvantaged Young Women KELLY NIELSEN 6 Bicultural Myths, Rifts, and Scripts: A Case Study of Hidden Chicana/Latina Teacher's Cultural Pedagogy in Multiracial Schools GLENDA M. FLORES 7 Gendered Expectations and Sexualized Policing: Latinas' Experiences in a Public High School G ILDA L. OCHOA PART IV: Immigrant Global Communities, Disparity, and the Struggle for Legitimacy 8 Diffi cult Transitions: Undocumented Immigrant Students Navigating Vulnerability and School Structures R OBERTO G. GONZALES AND CYNTHIA N. CARVAJAL 9 The Diaspora Speaks Back: Youth of Migration Speaking Back to Discourses of Power and Empire A NNE RÍOS-ROJAS 10 Global Urban Youth Culture: Peer Status and Orientations toward School among Children of Immigrants in New York and London NATASHA K. WARIKOO
