Insightful and enlightening, Latina/o/x Education in Chicago brings to light the ongoing struggle for educational equity in the Chicago Public Schools.
| Cover Title Copyright Contents Foreword Nilda Flores-González Acknowledgments Editors' Note on Terms Introduction / Ann M. Aviles, Isaura B. Pulido, and Angelica Rivera Part I. Roots 1. Schooling Puerto Rican Chicago / Mirelsie Velázquez 2. Mexican American Women's Stories in 1950s Chicago Schools / Angelica Rivera 3. Between Poverty and Segregation: Latino/a Students Surviving the Urban Crisis in Chicago's Public Schools, 1980-2000 / Lila Fernandez 4. Blowouts: Latinidad and Chicanismo in Late-1960s Chicago / Jaime Alanís Part II. Resistance 5. Roberto Clemente Community Academy: A Counter-Narrative on Chicago School Reform, 1988-1998 / Cristina Pacione-Zayas 6. Latina/o/x Education in Chicago Public Schools: Community Research, Resistance, and Representation / Erica R. Davila nad Ann M. Aviles 7. Mexican-Origin Boys Negotiating Social and Academic Identity in a Racialized School Context / Leticia Villareeal Sosa Part III. Transformation 8. ¿Dónde Está Nuestra Escuela? (Where Is Our High School?): Education, Politics, and a Hunger Strike in Chicago / Gabriel Cortez 9. Critical Civic Praxis: Examining the Intersection of Hip-Hop Music, Community-Based Organizations, and the Development of Latina/o/x Youth Consciousness / Isaura B. Pulido Afterword / Arlene Torres Contributors Index Back cover |"It's impossible to read this text and not be moved by Chicago's Mexican and Puerto Rican community's decades-long struggle for equity against tremendous odds with an establishment that imagines little more than dispossessing them, when this could be an entirely different narrative of valuing and honoring their strength, talent, acumen, and soul. Texts like these bring much-needed analysis and attention to the plight of Chicago's Latinx community with provocative, vivid narrative and evidence that promises to inspire a new generation. Kudos to Isaura Pulido, Angelica Rivera, and Ann M. Aviles for shining an ennobling light on a community of destiny in Chicago's public schools."—Angela Valenzuela, author of Subtractive Schooling: U.S. Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring"A growing body of research has sought to critically examine and unpack the 'browning of America' and the latinization of U.S. schools. Spanning a period of seventy years, Latina/o/x Education in Chicago provides a rich, deeply textured, and nuanced look at the educational experiences and outcomes for Latinxs in the Midwest. This volume is as timely as it is important, making a significant contribution to the literature and providing an...