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Subtractive Schooling: U.S.-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring

By Angela Valenzuela

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
1999
ISBN
0791443213, 9780791443217
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
31 MB (32220161 bytes)
Series
Suny Series, the Social Context of Education
Pages
328\350
Time added
2016-04-06 22:43:45
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Description

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.

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