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Cover 1 Frontmatter 2 Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 Introduction: Talking "American" 16 1. The Making of Amhem, the "Friendly City" 35 2. Marginality, Mobility, and the Melting Pot 47 3. Puerto Ricans Enter a Racialized Social Order 72 4. Telling Stories 96 5. Dangerous Discourses 134 6. Inclusion and Exclusion in the Classroom 177 7. After/Words 240 Notes 258 Bibliography 270 Index 292 Publisher:Temple University Press,Published:1999,ISBN:9781592138104,Language:English,OCLC:646068205 Growing numbers of working-class Puerto Ricans are migrating from larger mainland metropolitan areas into smaller, "safer" communities in search of a better quality of life for themselves and their families. What they may also encounter in moving to such communities is a discourse of exclusion that associates their differences and their lower socioeconomic class with a lack of effort and an unwillingness to assimilate into mainstream culture. In this ethnographic study of a community in conflict, educator and anthropologist Ellen Bigler examines such discourses as she explores one city's heated dispute that arose over bringing multiculturalism and bilingual education into their lives and their school

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Author

Bigler, Ellen

Publisher

Temple University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781566396875

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Education, Science