Latinos and Education

<p><em>Latinos and Education</em> has long been a landmark anthology in the field of education, the first to review and challenge the multiple and complex issues affecting Latino students. The welcome re-edition of this deeply relevant and useful reader culls the best of contemporary scholarly approaches to discuss the variety of issues essential to understanding the complex dynamics of a growing Latina and Latino population. Internationally-renowned scholars Antonia Darder and Rodolfo D. Torres retain the anthology’s original focus on the link between educational practice and the larger socioeconomic and structural dimensions that shape life for the nation’s largest and most rapidly growing minority group. All new and still-highly accessible chapter selections establish a useful balance between theory and practice. They discuss themes such as political economy, historical views of Latinos and schooling, identity, the politics of language, cultural democracy in the classroom, community involvement and Latinos in higher education. The book concludes with suggestions for further reading. </p><p><em>Latinos and Education: A Critical Reader</em> is a must-read collection for a new generation of students in education, Latino studies, and sociology.</p> <p>TABLES OF CONTENTS</p><p>I. HISTORY, POLITICS, & ECONOMICS</p><p>1. The Ideology and Practice of Empire: The U.S., Mexico, and the Education of Mexican Immigrants<br> Gilbert G. Gonzalez</p><p>2. Puerto Rican Politics in the United States: Examination of Major Perspectives and Theories<br>Edgardo Melendez</p><p>3. Latina/o: Historical and Material Dimensions <br>Peter McLaren and Nathalia E. Jaramillo<br> <br>II. CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES</p><p>4. Movimiento de Rebeldia Y Las Culturas que Traicionan<br>Gloria Andualdua</p><p>5. Latino/”Hispanic”—Who Needs a Name/: The Case against a Standardized Terminology <br>Martha E. Gimenez</p><p>6. Capitalist Schooling and Constructing Young Latino Masculinities<br>Rodolfo D. Torres and Alexandro Jose Gradilla</p><p>7. Dis-connections in “American” Citizenship and the Post/neo-colonial: People of Mexican Descent and Whitestream Pedagogy and Curriculum.<br>Luis Urrieta</p><p>III. LANGUAGE & SCHOOLING</p><p>8. The Struggle for Language Rights: Naming and Interrogating the Colonial Legacy of “English Only”<br>Lilia I. Bartolome</p><p>9. The Politics of Restrictive Language Policies: A Postcolonial Analysis of Language and Schooling <br>Antonia Darder and Miren Uriarte</p><p>10. Como Hablar en Silencio (Like Speaking in Silence): Issues of Language, Culture, and Identity of Central Americans in Los Angeles<br>Magaly Lavadenz</p><p>11. Entre la Espada y la Pared: Critical Educators, Bilingual Education, and Education Reform<br>Edward M. Olivos & Carmen E. Quintana de Valladolid </p><p>IV. TRANSFORMING EPISTEMOLOGIES</p><p>12. Toward an Epistemology of a Brown Body<br> Cindy Cruz</p><p> 13. Thinking Latina/o Education with and from Chicana/Latina Feminist <br> Cultural Studies<br> Sofia Villenas</p><p>14. (Re)Imagining New Narratives of Racial, Labor, and Environmental <br> Power for Latina/o Students <br> Yvette Lapayese </p><p>V. EMANCIPATORY PEDAGOGIES</p><p>15. RicanStructuring the Discourse and Promoting School Success: Extending <br> a Theory for Culturally Responsive Pedagogy for Diasporicans<br> Jason G. Irizarry and Rene Antrop-Gonzalez</p><p>16. A Social Justice Approach to Achievement: Guiding Latina/o Students <br> Toward Educational Attainment with a Challenging, Socially Relevant <br> Curriculum<br> Julio Cammarota</p><p>17. Critical Xicana/Xicano Educators: Is it enough to be a Person of Color?<br>Margarita Ines Berta-Avila</p><p>VI. LATINO IMMIGRANT YOUTH</p><p>18. Latino Youth: Immigration, Education, and the Future<br>Pedro A. Noguera</p><p>19. Swimming: On Oxygen, Resistance and Possibility for Immigrant Youth <br> under Siege <br>Michelle Fine, Reva Jaffe-Walter, Pedro Pedraza, Valerie Futch, & Brett Stoudt</p><p>20. “I Can’t Go to College because I Don’t Have Papers”: Incorporation <br> Patterns of Latino Undocumented Youth<br>Leisy Janet Abrego<br> </p><p>VII. COMMUNITY, RESISTANCE, & ACTIVISM</p><p>21. Culture, Literacy, and Power in Family-Community-School-Relationships<br>Concha Delgado Gaitan</p><p>22. Practicing Citizenship: Latino Parents Broadening Notions of Citizenship <br> through Participatory Research<br> Emma H. Fuentes</p><p>23. From Hip-Hop to Humanization: Batey Urbano as a Space for Latino <br> Youth Culture and Community Action<br>Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, Matthew Rodriguez, and Michael Rodriguez-Muniz</p><p>24. Nine Reflections for Academic Activists<br>Raúl Fernández</p>