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For most of US history, most of America's Latino population has lived in nine states—California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Illinois, Florida, New Jersey, and New York. It follows that most education research that considered the experiences of Latino families with US schools came from these same states. But in the last 30 years Latinos have been resettling across the US, attending schools, and creating new patterns of inter-ethnic interaction in educational settings. Much of this interaction with this New Latino Diaspora has been initially tentative and improvisational, but too often it has left intact the patterns of lower educational success that have prevailed in the traditional Latino diaspora.
Revisiting Education in the New Latino Diaspora is an extensive update, with all new material, of the groundbreaking volume Education in the New Latino Diaspora (Ablex Publishing) that these same editors produced in 2002. This volume consciously includes a number of junior scholars (e.g., C. Allen Lynn, Soria Colomer, Amanda Morales, Rebecca Lowenhaupt, Adam Sawyer) and more established ones (Frances Contreras, Jason Irizarry, Socorro Herrera, Linda Harklau) as it considers empirical cases from Washington State to Georgia, from the Mid-Atlantic to the Great Plains, where rural, suburban, and urban communities start their second or third decades of responding to a previously unprecedented growth in newcomer Latino populations. With excuses of surprise and improvisational strategies less persuasive as Latino newcomer populations become less new, this volume considers the persistence, the anomie, and pragmatism of Latino newcomers on the one hand, with the variously enlightened, paternalistic, dismissive, and xenophobic responses of educators and education systems on the other. With foci as personal as accounts of growing up as an adoptee in a mixed race family and the testimonio of a 'successful' undocumented college graduate to the macro scale of examining state-level education policies and with an age range from early childhood education to the university level, this volume insists that the worlds of education research and migration studies can both gain from considering the educational responses in the last two decades to the 'newish' Latino presence in the 41 U.S. states that have not long been the home to large, wellestablished Latino populations, but that now enroll 2.5 million Latino students in K-12 alone.
Contents
Foreword: You Don't See Me, Amanda Morales.
Section I. Introduction.
Chapter 1. Revisiting Education in the New Latino Diaspora,Edmund T. Hamann & Linda Harklau.
Section II. Actors and Improvisational Local Practice (Grassroots to Policy).
Chapter 2. Doing it on their own: the experiences of two Latino English language learners in a low-incidence context, Erika Bruening.
Chapter 3. Learning from the testimonio of a successful undocumented Latino student in North Carolina, Luis Urrieta, Lan Kolano, and Ji-Yeon O Jo.
Chapter 4. Racialization and the Ideology of Containment in the Education of Latino Youth, John Raible and Jason Irizarry.
Chapter 5. Migrantes Indígenas Purépechas: Educación Bilingüe México-Estados Unidos, Casimiro Leco Tomas.
Chapter 6. A Cultural Political Economy of Public Schooling in Rural South Georgia: The Push/Pull Dynamics of Immigrant Labor, C. Allen Lynn.
Chapter 7. The Secret Minority of the New Latino/a Diaspora, Stephanie Flores-Koulish.
Chapter 8. Defined by language: The role of foreign language departments in Latino education in southeastern new diaspora communities, Linda Harklau and Soria Colomer.
Chapter 9. Heterogeneity in the New Latino Diaspora, Stanton Wortham & Catherine Rhodes.
Section III. Existing Infrastructure Responds.
Chapter 10. Teacher Perceptions, Practices and Expectations Conveyed to Latino Students and Families in Washington State, Frances Contreras, Tom Stritikus, Kathryn Torres, & Karen O'Reilly Diaz.
Chapter 11. Early Childhood Education Barriers between Immigrant Parents and Teachers within the New Latina(o) Diaspora, Jennifer K. Adair.
Chapter 12. The 3 R's: Rhetoric, Recruitment, and Retention, Socorro G. Herrera and Melissa A. Holmes.
Chapter 13. Bilingual Education Policy in Wisconsin's New Latino Diaspora, Rebecca Lowenhaupt.
Chapter 14. Increasing Parent Involvement in the New Latino Diaspora, Sarah Gallo, Stanton Wortham, and Ian Bennett.
Chapter 15. Professional Development Across Borders: Binational Teacher Exchanges in the New Latino Diaspora, Adam Sawyer.
Chapter 16. The Iowa Administrators' and Educators' Immersion Experience: Transcultural Sensitivity, Transhumanization, and the Global Soul, Katherine Richardson Bruna.
Chapter 17. Education Policy Implementation in the New Latino Diaspora, Jennifer Stacy, Edmund T. Hamann, & Enrique G. Murillo, Jr.
