Subtractive Schooling
U.S. - Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring
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<p>Provides an enhanced sense of what's required to genuinely care for and educate the U.S.–Mexican youth in America.</p><p>Winner of the 2000 Outstanding Book Award presented by the American Educational Research Association <br/>Winner of the 2001 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award <br/>Honorable Mention, 2000 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards </p><p>Subtractive Schooling provides a framework for understanding the patterns of immigrant achievement and U.S.-born underachievement frequently noted in the literature and observed by the author in her ethnographic account of regular-track youth attending a comprehensive, virtually all-Mexican, inner-city high school in Houston. Valenzuela argues that schools subtract resources from youth in two major ways: firstly by dismissing their definition of education and secondly, through assimilationist policies and practices that minimize their culture and language. A key consequence is the erosion of students' social capital evident in the absence of academically oriented networks among acculturated, U.S.-born youth.</p>
| ISBNs | 9781438422626, 1438422628, 9780791443217 |
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| Language | English |