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State University Of New York Press Part#: - Subtractive Schooling: U.S.-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring
Provides an enhanced sense of what’s required to genuinely care for and educate the U.S.–Mexican youth in America.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.
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- State University of New York Press
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- 9780791443224
- Manufacturer: State University Of New York Press
- Label: State University of New York Press
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