Brokering tareas : Mexican immigrant families translanguaging homework literacies / Steven Alvarez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alvarez, Steven, 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--Education--New York (State)--New York.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican American families--Social conditions--New York (State)--New York.

Mexican American families.

Literacy--Social aspects--New York (State)--New York.

Literacy.

Mentoring in education--New York (State)--New York.

Mentoring in education.

After-school programs--New York (State)--New York.

After-school programs.

Community and school--New York (State)--New York.

Community and school.

Home and school--New York (State)--New York.

Home and school.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]

Summary:

Winner of the 2019 Outstanding Book in Community Writing Award presented by the Coalition for Community WritingBrokering Tareas examines a grassroots literacy mentoring program that connected immigrant parents with English language mentors who helped emerging bilingual children with homework and encouraged positive academic attitudes. Steven Alvarez gives an ethnographic account of literacies practices, language brokering, advocacy, community-building, and mentorship among Mexican-origin families at a neighborhood afterschool program in New York City. Alvarez argues that engaging literacy mentorship across languages can increase parental involvement and community engagement among immigrant families, and offers teachers and researchers possibilities for rethinking their own practices with the communities of their bilingual students.

Contents:

Mexican New York City : making community at MANOS

Translanguaging events : homework literacies at MANOS

Translanguaging in practice : homework, linguistic power, and family life

Brokering the immigrant bargain : negotiating language, power, and identity in Mexican immigrant families

Brokering community : community superación and local literacy investment

Tareas, community, and brokering care : mentoring local languages and literacies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438467214

1438467214