INTRODUCTION -- Antonia Darder, Rodolfo D. Torres, and Henry Gutirrez Foreward - Arturo Madrid I. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY 1. Mario Barrera -- A Theory of Racial Inequality 2. Sonia M. Prez and Denise de la Rosa Salazar -- Economic, Labor Force and Social Implications of Latino Educational and Population Trends 3. Hector R. Cordero Guzman -- The Structure of Inequality and the Status of Puerto Rican Youth in the U.S. 4. Rodofo D. Torres and Adela de la Torre -- Latinos, Class, and the U.S. Political Economy: Income Inequality and Policy Alternatives II. HISTORICAL VIEWS OF LATINOS AND SCHOOLING 5. George I. Sanchez -- History, Culture, and Education 6. Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr. -- Roused from Our Slumbers 7. Gilbert G. Gonzalez -- Culture, Language, and the Americanization of Mexican Children 8. Juan Flores and George Y dice -- Living Borders/Buscando Amrica: Languages of Latino Self-Formation III. CONSTRUCTING LATINO(A) IDENTITIES 9. Gonzalo Santos -- Somos RUNAFRIBES? The Future of Latino Ethnicity in the Americas 10. Martha E. Gimenez -- Latino/Hispanic--Who Needs a Name?: The Case Against a Standardized Terminology 11. Rafael Prez-Torres -- Nomads and Migrants: Negotiating a Multicultural Postmodernism 12. Gloria Anzaldua -- Movimientos de Rebeldua y Las Culturas que Traicionan IV. THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE 13. Donaldo Macedo -- English Only: The Tongue-Tying of America 14. John J. Attinasi -- Racism, Language Variety, and Urban Minorities: Issues in Bilingualism and Bidialectalism 15. Ana Celia Zentella -- Returned Migration, Language, and Identity: Puerto Rican Bilinguals in Dos Worlds/Two Mundos 16. Richard Ruiz -- The Empowerment of Language-Minority Students V. CULTURAL DEMOCRACY AND SCHOOLING 17. Antonia Darder -- Creating the Conditions for Cultural Democracy in the Classroom 18. Daniel G. Solorzano -- Teaching and Social Change: Reflections on a Freirean Approach in a College Classroom 19. Eugene E. Garcia -- Effective Instruction for Language Minority Students: The Teacher 20. Tamara Lucas, Rosemary Henze, and Ruben Donato -- Promoting the Success of Latino Language-Minority Students: An Exploratory Study of Six High Schools 21. Mario Garcia -- Education and the Mexican American: Eleuterio Escobar and the School Improvement League of San Antonio VI. LATINOS AND HIGHER EDUCATION 22. Maria de la Luz Reyes and John J. Halcon -- Racism in Academia: The Old Wolf Revisited 23. Carlos Munoz, Jr. -- The Quest for Paradigm: The Development of Chicano Studies and Intellectuals 24. Melba J. T. Vasquez -- Confronting Barriers to the Participation of Mexican American Women in Higher Education 25. Michael A. Olivas -- Research on Latino College Students: A Theoretical Framework and Inquiry