Latinos Unidos: From Cultural Diversity to the Politics of Solidarity

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Rowman & Littlefield, 1999 - 173 頁
Latinos Unidos presents an unexpected perspective on Latinos not only as a highly diverse and rapidly growing population in the United States with distinct social, cultural, and economic features but as a new political force with a cohesive collective ethnic identity. Indeed, Latinos in this country constitute a new political power coming to grips with their global significance. Within two decades, Latino children will constitute a majority in urban public schools around the country. By the mid-21st century, Latinos (along with African-Americans) will represent half the U.S. population. While much of the literature in the social sciences continues to stereotype Latinos as marginalized, poor, and low-achievers, unable to "assimilate" and function in mainstream society, Latinos are quietly taking important positions in academic, government, professional organizations, and the international world of economics. Their rapid flow into the U.S. has, to an extent, camouflaged this upward social, educational, and class mobility. Trueba, using his unique vantage point as a Latino immigrant and scholar, explores the vital issues of personal identity and resiliency, adaptive strategies, and successes of Latinos in North America in this pathbreaking book. Among the most fascinating and least known subjects he discusses are binational networks, which describe the bilingual and bicultural capabilities of a new generation of Latinos who can function on both sides of the border with Mexico. Most of all, readers will come away from Latinos Unidos with the growing significance of Latinos in the U.S. and their vital role in shaping the future."
 

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The Politics of Latino SelfIdentity
1
From a Colonized Mentality to Liberation
2
The North American Peoples View of Immigrants
4
Fear in an Older and Impoverished America
6
Unexpected High Political Profile
9
Cultural Roots of Resiliency
13
Religious Foundations of Resiliency and Solidarity
16
Redefinition of the Self and New Leadership
21
Conflict Resolution
87
Concluding Thoughts
89
Mexican Immigrant Families in California
95
Sociopolitical Context of Mexican Farm Labor
96
Mexican Immigrants in Migrant Town
101
The Role of Women in the Family
108
The Case of Consuelo
109
The Personal and Family Contextual Features of Resiliency
116

Concluding Reflections
25
Latino Diversity Demographic Socioeconomic Occupational and Educational Characteristics
31
Socioeconomic and Demographic Characteristics
33
Migration and Economic Crises
38
The RuralUrban Continuum
44
The Struggle of Latino Children in Schools
47
Preparing Teachers for Latino Students
48
A Deficit View of Latino Students
53
The Isolation of Latino Students
54
Students Cultural and Cognitive Capital
57
Race and Ethnicity in Academia Latinos in Higher Education
65
Race Ethnicity and Xenophobia
67
Debate on Affirmative Action
72
My Personal Experience
75
Specific Cases of Exclusion
79
Binational Lives
118
Critical Ethnography and a Vygotskian Pedagogy of Hope The Case of Mexican Immigrant Children
125
What is Critical Ethnography?
128
Adaptive Responses of Mexican Immigrants
132
Education and Empowerment of Mexican Immigrants
137
From Critical Ethnography to a Vygotskian Pedagogy of Hope
140
Concluding Thoughts
146
Latinos in the TwentyFirst Century The Components of Praxis for a Pedagogy of Hope
153
Praxis for a Pedagogy of Hope
160
New Educational Leadership
163
Dreams Worries and Borders
165
Index
167
About the Author
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Enrique T. Trueba is Ruben E. Hinojosa Regents Professor and chair of the Curriculum and Instruction Department, Department of Education at the University of Texas, Austin.

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