Barrio Nerds : Latino Males, Schooling, and the Beautiful Struggle / by Juan F. Carrillo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carrillo, Juan F., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VIII, 128 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2016.

Summary:

"When Pulitzer Prize nominated author Richard Rodriguez published his autobiography, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez in 1982, he received much criticism due to his views on issues such as assimilation, bilingual education, and affirmative action. Polemically, since Rodriguez’s publication, a book length revisiting of some of his ideas is for the most part non-existent. Inspired by Rodriguez’s work, Barrio Nerds: Latino Males, Schooling, and the Beautiful Struggle presents a compelling window into the schooling trajectories of Latino males, while also providing critical and alternative views. These portraits of working-class students and academics that achieved academic success move beyond clean victory narratives and thus complicate our notions of “success” and “rising up.” Blending versus separating the exploration of street kid/school kid identities, we get a glimpse into the merging and collision of multiple cultural worlds in ways thatare liberating and often painful and full of ambivalence. Additionally, we get provocative takes on giftedness, the philosophical and political dimensions of “home,” and masculinities. Ultimately, Barrio Nerds: Latino Males, Schooling, and the Beautiful Struggle is a reminder of how academic achievement is often embedded in gain and in loss and it is a thoughtful meditation on how many Latino males of working-class origins do not reject the past, but instead use this precious knowledge to holistically live out the present.".

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Beautiful Struggle

Toll Fees and Intersecting Roads

Contributions of Prior Scholarship

Cultural-Ecological Perspective

Latin@ Education Scholarship

Gifted Latin@ Literature

Limitations of Prior Scholarship

Lost in Degree

Home

Graduate Students: Mario and Antonio

Faculty: Carlos and Dave

David: Home as a Struggle

Summary

Masculinities, Class, and Power

Introduction

Toward a Ghetto Nerd Framework

Subtractive Schooling and Unacknowledged Intelligences

MI: Meeting Gardner and Unpacking the Theory

Towards a Mestiz@ Theory of Intelligences (MTI)

Negotiating Multiple Worlds: MTI and Portraits of MexicanGhetto Nerds

Weaving the Portraits Together: A Commitment to Social Justice and Extending MI Theory

Revisiting Richard Rodriguez

Moving Up

Language

Memory

The Way Out Is In

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-128) and index.

ISBN:

9789463007665

9463007660

OCLC:

964657158