Subtractive Schooling: U.S.-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring

by Valenzuela, Angela

• ISBN13: 9780791443224
• ISBN10: 0791443221
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS

Summary

Provides an enhanced sense of what's required to genuinely care for and educate the U.S.-Mexican youth in America.

Author Biography

Angela Valenzuela is Associate Professor in Curriculum and Instruction and Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.

Table of Contents

Tables	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Foreword	p. xv
Introduction	p. 3
The Study	p. 6
Mexican Immigrant and Mexican American Achievement	p. 10
The Subtractive Elements of Caring and Cultural Assimilation	p. 20
Unmasking Barriers to Progress	p. 30
Seguin High School in Historical Perspective: Mexican Americans' Struggle for Equal Educational Opportunity in Houston	p. 33
The Early Years	p. 34
Changing Demographics and the "Mexicanization" of the East End and Seguin High	p. 36
Ross v. Eckels and the Struggle for Just Integration	p. 44
The Seguin School Walkout	p. 50
Conclusion	p. 58
Teacher-Student Relations and the Politics of Caring	p. 61
Teacher Caring	p. 63
The "Uncaring Student" Prototype	p. 75
"Americanized" Immigrant Youth	p. 84
"Not Caring" as Student Resistance	p. 94
Caring and Pedagogy	p. 99
When Teachers Do Not Initiate Relation	p. 104
Contributions and Limitations of the Caring and Education Literature	p. 108
Love is One Taquito Away	p. 111
Everyday Experiences in the Lives of Immigrant and U.S.-Born Youth	p. 115
The Experience of Schooling for Mexican Immigrant Youth	p. 118
Immigrant Youth and the Question of Empeno	p. 140
Cross-Generational Gender and Social Capital	p. 143
Social Capital among U.S.-Born Youth	p. 152
Conclusion	p. 158
Subtractive Schooling and Divisions among Youth	p. 161
Relationships and the "Politics of Difference"	p. 163
Subtractive Schooling	p. 172
Divisions among Youth	p. 181
Conclusion	p. 224
Unity in Resistance to Schooling	p. 227
Mutiny in Mr. Chilcoate's Classroom	p. 230
Cinco de Mayo, 1993	p. 238
The Talent Show	p. 246
Conclusion	p. 255
Epilogue: Some Final Thoughts	p. 269
Research Methodology	p. 273
Notes	p. 291
References	p. 307
Index	p. 321
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