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Mexican immigrant parents advocating for school reform / Mariolga Reyes Cruz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reyes Cruz, Mariolga, 1970-
- Series:
- New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
- The new Americans
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mexican American students--Education.
- Mexican American students.
- Education--Parent participation--United States.
- Education.
- Children of immigrants--Education--United States.
- Children of immigrants.
- Educational change--United States.
- Educational change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (206 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Reyes Cruz describes the experiences of Mexican immigrant parents working to make public schools responsive and accountable to Latino American children and their families in a small Midwestern town. The town is a racially divided city where a community of working-poor Latino American immigrants is forming. The parents do not believe schools are preparing their children for academic success and publicly advocate reforms. In the process, power struggles, knowledge-claim battles, and a generalized colonial mentality conspire to silence the parents' basic claims for respect, dignity, and their children's rights. Reyes Cruz tells the story from a critical perspective with an eye for understanding how power is played out in the daily reproduction and contestation of social inequalities.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- From Community Practice to a Critical Ethnography
- The Schooling of Mexican Children in Korbel
- Ellos nos van a sacar de estarnos arrastrando: Parents' Hopes for Their Children's Future
- Para muestras un botón: Parents' Lived Experiences of Their Children's Schooling
- El que no tiene voz, no tiene mando: Voice, Bilingualism, and Power
- Luchando por mantener 'el dedo en el renglón': Challenges to Building Sense of Community and Political Capital
- Paradoxes of Social Life
- Endnotes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-193) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-59332-348-4
- OCLC:
- 490988593
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