Subtractive Schooling: U.S. - Mexican Youth and the Politics of CaringSubtractive 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Study | 6 |
Mexican Immigrant and Mexican American Achievement | 10 |
The Subtractive Elements of Caring and Cultural Assimilation | 20 |
Unmasking Barriers to Progress | 30 |
Seguin High School in Historical Perspective Mexican Americans Struggle for Equal Educational Opportunity in Houston | 33 |
The Early Years | 34 |
Changing Demographics and the Mexicanization of the East End and Seguin High | 36 |
The Experience of Schooling for Mexican Immigrant Youth | 118 |
Immigrant Youth and the Question of Empeno | 140 |
CrossGenerational Gender and Social Capital | 143 |
Social Capital amount USBorn Youth | 152 |
Conclusion | 158 |
Subtractive Schooling and Divisions among Youth | 161 |
Relationships and the Politics of Difference | 163 |
Subtractive Schooling | 172 |
Ross v Eckels and the Struggle for Just Integration | 44 |
The Seguin School Walkout | 50 |
Conclusion | 58 |
TeacherStudent Relations and the Politics of Caring | 61 |
Teacher Caring | 63 |
The Uncaring Student Prototype | 75 |
Americanized Immigrant Youth | 84 |
Not Caring as Student Resistance | 94 |
Caring and Pedagogy | 99 |
When Teachers Do Not Initiate Relation | 104 |
Contributions and Limitations of the Caring and Education Literature | 108 |
Love is One Taquito Away | 111 |
Everyday Experiences in the Lives of Immigrant and USBorn Youth | 115 |
Divisions among Youth | 181 |
Conclusion | 224 |
Unity in Resistance to Schooling | 227 |
Mutiny in Mr Chilcoates Classroom | 230 |
Cinco de Mayo 1993 | 238 |
The Talent Show | 246 |
Conclusion | 255 |
Some Final Thoughts | 269 |
Research Methodology | 273 |
Notes | 291 |
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Subtractive Schooling: U.S. - Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring Angela Valenzuela Limited preview - 2010 |
Subtractive Schooling: U.S. - Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring Angela Valenzuela No preview available - 1999 |
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