Focusing on the puzzling differences between adolescents born in Mexico and those born in the U.S., this psychocultural study examines why second-generation Latinos lose the desire to achieve.
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“While Transformations focuses on Mexicans in California, the authors place their study in a much wider context—the global context. This perspective is on of the book’s most insightful features. . . . The information presented provokes educators, researchers and policymakers to take a hard look at how we are educating immigrant children.”—Harvard Educational Review
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“While Transformations focuses on Mexicans in California, the authors place their study in a much wider context—the global context. This perspective is on of the book’s most insightful features. . . . The information presented provokes educators, researchers and policymakers to take a hard look at how we are educating immigrant children.”—Harvard Educational Review
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As a tutor for Mexican immigrant students in high school, I bought this book expecting to find the answer to a seemingly straight, yet complex, question: why are so many Hispanic students dropping out of high school recently in the United States? Though the authors don't give any suggestion whatsoever to those working with Hispanic students at risk of dropping out, their research disabuses readers of many widely held miscomceptions as that that argues that Hispanics' cultural background is responsible for their failure in schools.
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familism score, attitudinal referents, familism scale, affiliative achievement, immigrant adolescents, instrumental exploitation, immigrant sample, psychological exploitation, immigrant crime, immigrant students, border bandits, undocumented immigration, immigrant youths, undocumented immigrants, cultural therapy, psychological anthropology, financial deprivation, involuntary minorities, motivational dynamics Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Mexican American, San Diego, Puerto Ricans, Latin America, Los Angeles, Central American, New York Times, Americas Watch, North Africa, Ruben Navarrette, Thematic Apperception Test, Cuban Americans, President Clinton, Problem Situation Test, American Friends Service Committee, Anxious Neighbors, After World War, Charles Pasqua, Mexican Mexican Whites Mexicans, Richard Rodriguez, Salgado de Snyder, San Ysidro New!
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- Making of Psychological Anthropology by George Dearborn Spindler on 5 pages
- Thematic Apperception Test by Henry A. Murray M.D. on 4 pages
- Puerto Ricans: Born in the U.S.A. by C. Rodriguez on 4 pages
- Ethnicity and Family Therapy, Third Edition by Monica McGoldrick in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Minority Status and Schooling: A Comparative Study of Immigrant and Involuntary Minorities (Reference Books in International Education, Vol 7) by Margaret A. Gibson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities by Mary C. Waters in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Effect Of Community Context on Intergenerational Spanish Maintenance and English Proficiency among Latina and Latino Children by Nancy Alison Garrett in Back Matter
- Taking Stock: American Government in the Twentieth Century (Woodrow Wilson Center Press) by Morton Keller on page 106
- Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants by Robert Smith on page 345
- Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S. by Mary Romero on page 79
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