ABSTRACT

This critical anthology showcases an interdisciplinary forum of scholars sharing a common interest in the analysis, discussion, critique, and dissemination of educational issues impacting Latinos. Drawing on the best of the past 20 years of the Journal of Latinos and Education, the collection highlights work that has been seminal in addressing complex educational issues affecting and influencing the growing Latina and Latino population. Chapters discuss the production and application of wisdom and knowledge to real-world problems while engaging and collaborating with the interests of key stakeholders in other sectors outside the "traditional" academy. Organized thematically around issues related to policy, research, practice, and creative and literary works, the collection is sure to extend and encourage novel ways of thinking about the ongoing and emerging questions around the unifying thread of Latinos and education.

section Section I|116 pages

Tasks

chapter 1|23 pages

“Mexican Americans Don’t Value Education!”

On the Basis of the Myth, Mythmaking, and Debunking

chapter 2|18 pages

Funds of Knowledge

An Approach to Studying Latina(o) Students’ Transition to College

chapter 3|15 pages

All for Our Children

Migrant Families and Parent Participation in an Alternative Education Program

chapter 4|19 pages

Quantitative Intersectionality

A Critical Race Analysis of the Chicana/o Educational Pipeline

chapter 6|22 pages

Nuestro Camino

A Review of Literature Surrounding the Latino Teacher Pipeline

section Section II|119 pages

Themes

chapter 7|22 pages

Francisco Maestas et al. v. George H. Shone et al

Mexican American Resistance to School Segregation in the Hispano Homeland, 1912–1914

chapter 8|18 pages

Latino English Language Learners

Bridging Achievement and Cultural Gaps Between Schools and Families

chapter 9|19 pages

Understanding Latina/o School Pushout

Experiences of Students Who Left School Before Graduating

chapter 10|12 pages

Compartiendo Nuestras Historias

Five Testimonios of Schooling and Survival

chapter 11|26 pages

The Value of Education and Educación

Nurturing Mexican American Children’s Educational Aspirations to the Doctorate

chapter 12|20 pages

Mapping and Recontextualizing the Evolution of the Term Latinx

An Environmental Scanning in Higher Education

section Section III|122 pages

Solutions

chapter 13|18 pages

Abuelita Epistemologies

Counteracting Subtractive Schools in American Education

chapter 14|14 pages

Sustaining a Dual Language Immersion Program

Features of Success

chapter 15|17 pages

Beginning With El Barrio

Learning From Exemplary Teachers of Latino Students

chapter 17|19 pages

Latina/o Parent Organizing for Educational Justice

An Ethnographic Account of Community Building and Radical Healing

chapter 18|16 pages

Dream Big

Exploring Empowering Processes of DREAM Act Advocacy in a Focal State

chapter 19|22 pages

Multiple Ethnic, Racial, and Cultural Identities in Action

From Marginality to a New Cultural Capital in Modern Society