TABLES OF CONTENTS
I. HISTORY, POLITICS, & ECONOMICS
1. The Ideology and Practice of Empire: The U.S., Mexico, and the Education of Mexican Immigrants
Gilbert G. Gonzalez
2. Puerto Rican Politics in the United States: Examination of Major Perspectives and Theories
Edgardo Melendez
3. Latina/o: Historical and Material Dimensions
Peter McLaren and Nathalia E. Jaramillo
II. CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES
4. Movimiento de Rebeldia Y Las Culturas que Traicionan
Gloria Andualdua
5. Latino/Hispanic-Who Needs a Name/: The Case against a Standardized Terminology
Martha E. Gimenez
6. Capitalist Schooling and Constructing Young Latino Masculinities
Rodolfo D. Torres and Alexandro Jose Gradilla
7. Dis-connections in American Citizenship and the Post/neo-colonial: People of Mexican Descent and Whitestream Pedagogy and Curriculum.
Luis Urrieta
III. LANGUAGE & SCHOOLING
8. The Struggle for Language Rights: Naming and Interrogating the Colonial Legacy of English Only
Lilia I. Bartolome
9. The Politics of Restrictive Language Policies: A Postcolonial Analysis of Language and Schooling
Antonia Darder and Miren Uriarte
10. Como Hablar en Silencio (Like Speaking in Silence): Issues of Language, Culture, and Identity of Central Americans in Los Angeles
Magaly Lavadenz
11. Entre la Espada y la Pared: Critical Educators, Bilingual Education, and Education Reform
Edward M. Olivos & Carmen E. Quintana de Valladolid
IV. TRANSFORMING EPISTEMOLOGIES
12. Toward an Epistemology of a Brown Body
Cindy Cruz
13. Thinking Latina/o Education with and from Chicana/Latina Feminist
Cultural Studies
Sofia Villenas
14. (Re)Imagining New Narratives of Racial, Labor, and Environmental
Power for Latina/o Students
Yvette Lapayese
V. EMANCIPATORY PEDAGOGIES
15. RicanStructuring the Discourse and Promoting School Success: Extending
a Theory for Culturally Responsive Pedagogy for Diasporicans
Jason G. Irizarry and Rene Antrop-Gonzalez
16. A Social Justice Approach to Achievement: Guiding Latina/o Students
Toward Educational Attainment with a Challenging, Socially Relevant
Curriculum
Julio Cammarota
17. Critical Xicana/Xicano Educators: Is it enough to be a Person of Color?
Margarita Ines Berta-Avila
VI. LATINO IMMIGRANT YOUTH
18. Latino Youth: Immigration, Education, and the Future
Pedro A. Noguera
19. Swimming: On Oxygen, Resistance and Possibility for Immigrant Youth
under Siege
Michelle Fine, Reva Jaffe-Walter, Pedro Pedraza, Valerie Futch, & Brett Stoudt
20. I Can't Go to College because I Don't Have Papers: Incorporation
Patterns of Latino Undocumented Youth
Leisy Janet Abrego
VII. COMMUNITY, RESISTANCE, & ACTIVISM
21. Culture, Literacy, and Power in Family-Community-School-Relationships
Concha Delgado Gaitan
22. Practicing Citizenship: Latino Parents Broadening Notions of Citizenship
through Participatory Research
Emma H. Fuentes
23. From Hip-Hop to Humanization: Batey Urbano as a Space for Latino
Youth Culture and Community Action
Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, Matthew Rodriguez, and Michael Rodriguez-Muniz
24. Nine Reflections for Academic Activists
Raul Fernandez