Subtractive Schooling: U.S.-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring
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Subtractive Schooling: U.S.-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring
- Product Details: Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: State University of New York Press (October 1999)
- Language: English, ISBN-10: 0791443221, ISBN-13: 978-0791443224
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches, Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
Provides an enhanced sense of what€s required to genuinely care for and educate the U.S.€“Mexican youth in America.
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.
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