Latinos Unidos From Cultural Diversity to the Politics of Solidarity

by Trueba, Enrique T.

• ISBN13: 9780847687282
• ISBN10: 0847687287
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-12-23
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Latinos Unidos presents an unexpected perspective on Latinos-not only as a highly diverse and rapidly growing population in the United States with distinct social, cultural, and economic features-but as a new political force with a cohesive collective ethnic identity. Trueba, using his unique vantage point as a Latino immigrant and scholar, explores the vital issues of personal identity and resiliency, adaptive strategies, and successes of Latinos in North America in this pathbreaking book.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	ix
Series Editor's Foreword	xi
Donaldo Macedo
Foreword	xxiii
George Spindler
Acknowledgments	xxv
Introduction: The Genesis of This Volume and Its Author	xxvii
Personal Resilience and Self-Identities	xxxvii
The Politics of Latino Self-Identity	1	(30)
A Brief Historical Perspective: From a Colonized Mentality to Liberation	2	(2)
The North American People's View of Immigrants	4	(2)
Fear in an Older and Impoverished America	6	(3)
A New Collective Latino Identity: Unexpected High Political Profile	9	(4)
Cultural Roots of Resiliency	13	(3)
Religious Foundations of Resiliency and Solidarity	16	(5)
Redefinition of the Self and New Leadership	21	(4)
Concluding Reflections	25	(6)
Latino Diversity: Demographic, Socioeconomic, Occupational, and Educational Characteristics	31	(34)
Socioeconomic and Demographic Characteristics	33	(5)
Migration and Economic Crises	38	(6)
The Rural-Urban Continuum	44	(3)
The Struggle of Latino Children in Schools	47	(1)
Preparing Teachers for Latino Students	48	(5)
A Deficit View of Latino Students	53	(1)
The Isolation of Latino Students	54	(3)
Students' Cultural and Cognitive Capital	57	(8)
Race and Ethnicity in Academia: Latinos in Higher Education	65	(30)
Race, Ethnicity, and Xenophobia	67	(5)
Debate on Affirmative Action	72	(3)
My Personal Experience	75	(4)
Specific Cases of Exclusion	79	(8)
Conflict Resolution	87	(2)
Concluding Thoughts	89	(6)
Mexican Immigrant Families in California	95	(30)
Sociopolitical Context of Mexican Farm Labor	96	(5)
Mexican Immigrants in Migrant Town	101	(7)
The Role of Women in the Family	108	(1)
The Case of Consuelo	109	(7)
The Personal and Family Contextual Features of Resiliency	116	(2)
Binational Lives	118	(7)
Critical Ethnography and a Vygotskian Pedagogy of Hope: The Case of Mexican Immigrant Children	125	(28)
What is Critical Ethnography?	128	(4)
Adaptive Responses of Mexican Immigrants	132	(5)
Education and Empowerment of Mexican Immigrants	137	(1)
Mr. Villegas, the Fourth Grade Teacher	137	(3)
From Critical Ethnography to a Vygotskian Pedagogy of Hope	140	(6)
Concluding Thoughts	146	(7)
Latinos in the Twenty-First Century: The Components of Praxis for a Pedagogy of Hope	153	(14)
Resiliency and Latino Identities: A Theoretical Reflection	153	(7)
Praxis for a Pedagogy of Hope	160	(3)
New Educational Leadership	163	(2)
Dreams, Worries, and Borders	165	(2)
Index	167	(7)
About the Author	174