| Subtractive Schooling: U.S. - Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring Contributor(s): Valenzuela, Angela (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791443213 ISBN-13: 9780791443217 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects - Education | Student Life & Student Affairs |
| Dewey: 371.829 |
| LCCN: 98-43568 |
| Series: Suny Series, the Social Context of Education |
| Physical Information: (1.32 lbs) 346 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
