ISBN:
9780520376847
,
9780520376854
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 289 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
California series in public anthropology 53
Series Statement:
California series in public anthropology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Flores, Andrea, 1983- The succeeders
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Flores, Andrea, 1983 - The succeeders
DDC:
305.235086/912
Keywords:
Hispanic American youth Social conditions
;
Hispanic American youth Education
;
Immigrant youth Social conditions
;
Tennessee
;
Hispanos
;
High school
;
Oberstufenschüler
;
Sozialer Aufstieg
;
Bildung
;
Zugehörigkeit
Abstract:
Introduction : "Be somebody" : the stakes of academic achievement -- City of success : living and learning in Music City -- Mowing the lawn and getting pregnant : Latinidad and educational exceptionalism -- "Your story is your ticket" : becoming a moral minority and reproducing exclusion -- "Their name is also written on my diploma" : striving for parental inclusion -- "Education with her family" : caring for siblings and redefining success -- Somos una familia : transforming belonging and making friends into family -- Conclusion : graduations.
Abstract:
"This book--a story of social reproduction and change--illustrates how the larger ideological struggles over who belongs in this country, who is valuable, and who is an American are worked out by young people through their everyday acts of striving in school and caring for friends and family. It uses the experiences of everyday high schoolers, some undocumented and some from families with mixed legal standing, to understand the roles that education and a broad definition of achievement play in shaping how young people, who are today the focus of xenophobic ire, come to understand their national identity and sense of belonging to the United States"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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