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  • Chicanas and Chicanos in Contemporary Society

    by Gilbert R. Cadena, Janie Filoteo, Elizabeth Flores, Lara Medina, Robert P. Moreno, Maria C. Morales, Gilda L. Ochoa, Eric Romero, Rogelio Saenz, Armando Trujillo, Elsa O. Valdez, Raul H. Villa ...
    This book deals with a broad range of social issues facing Mexican-origin people in the United States. The studies presented in this volume are brought together by two main themes: (1) social inequalities-cultural, educational, and economic-endured by the Chicano/Mexicano community in the United States and (2) the community's efforts to eradicate the source of those inequalities.The second edition ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Handbook of Latinos and Education

    Theory, Research, and Practice

    Edited by Enrique G. Murillo, Jr, Dolores Delgado Bernal, Socorro Morales, Luis Urrieta, Jr, Eric Ruiz Bybee, Juan Sánchez Muñoz, Victor B. Saenz, Daniel Villanueva, Margarita Machado-Casas, Katherine Espinoza ...
    Now in its second edition, this Handbook offers a comprehensive review of rigorous, innovative, and critical scholarship profiling the scope and terrain of academic inquiry on Latinos and education. Presenting the most significant and potentially influential work in the field in terms of its contributions to research, to professional practice, and to the emergence of related interdisciplinary ... Read more

    $166.99 USD

  • Heavy Metal Music and the Communal Experience

    by Keith Kahn-Harris, Deena Weinstein, Esther Clinton, Brian Hickam, Kathryn Jezer-Morton, Toni-Matti Karjalainen, Sigrid Mendoza, Eric Morales, Bradley J. Nelson, Jeffrey S. Podoshen, Jihan Raban, Paula Rowe, Karl Spracklen, Méi-Ra St. Laurent, Tieja Thomas, Christopher Thompson, Kathryn Urbaniak, Vivek Venkatesh, Jason J. Wallin, Jeremy Wallach ...
    It is common to hear heavy metal music fans and musicians talk about the “metal community”. This concept, which is widely used when referencing this musical genre, encompasses multiple complex aspects that are seldom addressed in traditional academic endeavors including shared aesthetics, musical practices, geographies, and narratives. The idea of a “metal community” recognizes that fans and ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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    Creating Multicultural Learning Communities: Tenth Anniversary Edition

    by Sonia Nieto ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    In this 10th Anniversary Edition of her popular text, Sonia Nieto reviews where we have been and where we should be going in our pursuit of creating multicultural learning communities in our schools. With a new Introductory Chapter and a new Epilogue, Nieto addresses some of the changes we have experienced during the past decade that help explain the current sociopolitical environment—our ... Read more

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  • Skin Color and Identity Formation

    Perception of Opportunity and Academic Orientation Among Mexican and Puerto Rican Youth

    by Edward Fergus ...
    Series series Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
    The focus of this study is on the ways in which skin color moderates the perceptions of opportunity and academic orientation of 17 Mexican and Puerto Rican high school students. More specifically, the study's analysis centered on cataloguing the racial/ethnic identification shifts (or not) in relation to how they perceive others situate them based on skin color. ... Read more

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  • Funds of Knowledge

    Theorizing Practices in Households, Communities, and Classrooms

    Edited by Norma Gonzalez, Luis C. Moll, Cathy Amanti ...
    The concept of "funds of knowledge" is based on a simple premise: people are competent and have knowledge, and their life experiences have given them that knowledge. The claim in this book is that first-hand research experiences with families allow one to document this competence and knowledge, and that such engagement provides many possibilities for positive pedagogical actions.Drawing from both ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Kids Are in Charge

    Activism and Power in Peru's Movement of Working Children

    by Jessica K. Taft ...
    Series Book 2 - Critical Perspectives on Youth
    Details the possibilities and challenges of intergenerational activism and social movementsSince 1976, the Peruvian movement of working children has fought to redefine age-based roles in society, including defending children’s right to work. In The Kids Are in Charge, Jessica K. Taft gives us an inside look at this groundbreaking, intergenerational social movement, showing that kids can—and should ... Read more

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  • Latinos in American Society

    Families and Communities in Transition

    by Ruth Enid Zambrana ...
    It is well known that Latinos in the United States bear a disproportionate burden of low educational attainment, high residential segregation, and low visibility in the national political landscape. In Latinos in American Society, Ruth Enid Zambrana brings together the latest research on Latinos in the United States to demonstrate how national origin, age, gender, socioeconomic status, and ... Read more

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  • Cuba’s Academic Advantage

    Why Students in Cuba Do Better in School

    by Martin Carnoy ...
    In this book, Martin Carnoy explores the surprising success of the Cuban educational system, where the average elementary school student learns much more than her Latin American peers. In developing the case for Cuba's supportive social context and centralized management of education, Carnoy asks important questions about educational systems in general. How responsible should government be for ... Read more

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  • Race Migrations

    Latinos and the Cultural Transformation of Race

    by Wendy Roth ...
    In this groundbreaking study of Puerto Rican and Dominican migration to the United States, Wendy D. Roth explores the influence of migration on changing cultural conceptions of race—for the newcomers, for their host society, and for those who remain in the countries left behind. Just as migrants can gain new language proficiencies, they can pick up new understandings of race. But adopting an ... Read more

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  • Language, Culture, and Teaching

    Critical Perspectives

    by Sonia Nieto ...
    Series series Language, Culture, and Teaching Series
    Distinguished multiculturalist Sonia Nieto speaks directly to current and future teachers in this thoughtful integration of a selection of her key writings with creative pedagogical features. Offering information, insights, and motivation to teach students of diverse cultural, racial, and linguistic backgrounds, examples are included throughout to illustrate real-life dilemmas about diversity that ... Read more

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  • Latino Education

    An Agenda for Community Action Research

    Edited by Pedro Pedraza, Melissa Rivera ...
    This landmark volume represents the work of the National Latino/a Education Research Agenda Project (NLERAP)-an initiative focused on school reform and educational research with and for Latino communities. NLERAP's goal is to bring together various constituencies within the broad Latino community who are concerned with public education to articulate a Latino perspective on research-based school ... Read more

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