Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Seguín High School in historical perspective: Mexican Americans' struggle for equal educational opportunity in Houston -- Chapter 3: Teacher-student relations and the politics of caring -- Chapter 4: Everyday experiences in the lives of immigrant and U.S.-born youth -- Chapter 5: Subtractive schooling and divisions among youth -- Chapter 6: Unity in resistance to schooling -- Chapter 7: Conclusion
Summary
"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."--Jacket
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-319) and index
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