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Hispanic Americans are not an impoverished minority group on the fast track to the permanent underclass, despite all the rhetoric to this effect coming from the victimization industry. To the contrary, they are an upwardly mobile group in pursuit of the American dream. Like immigrants in the past, they simply need time to adapt to their new home. In this brilliant analysis, Linda Chavez conclusively shows that the main obstacle to their progress is not racism or nativism among the native-born but misguided public policies such as bilingual education that inhibit Hispanics from entering the mainstream.
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The explosive theory that Hispanics are keeping themselves in the barrio by refusing to assimilate into the majority white culture is covered unevenly and, despite a flurry of statistics, at times unscientifically. While Chavez, a former director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, starts out with the basic premise that today's Hispanics should be treated like the immigrants of yesteryear and be forced to forsake their language and culture for their own good when inconvenient, she argues the reverse midway through the book. She presents an accurate and well-cited discussion of bilingual eduation, a cornerstone issue of the Hispanic community, but then drops the academic analysis to press unpopular views with little foundation. For more complete coverage of bilingual education from an educator in the field, a preferable choice is Rosalie Porter's Forked Tongue ( LJ 5/15/90). Unfortunately, since little has been written solely on Hispanics as an ethnic minority, this may fill gaps in some collections.
- Sharon Roman, Carroll Cty. P.L., Westminster, Md.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Hispanic Americans are not an impoverished minority group on the fast track to the permanent underclass, despite all the rhetoric to this effect coming from the victimization industry. To the contrary, they are an upwardly mobile group in pursuit of the American dream. Like immigrants in the past, they simply need time to adapt to their new home. In this brilliant analysis, Linda Chavez conclusively shows that the main obstacle to their progress is not racism or nativism among the native-born but misguided public policies such as bilingual education that inhibit Hispanics from entering the mainstream.
From Library Journal
The explosive theory that Hispanics are keeping themselves in the barrio by refusing to assimilate into the majority white culture is covered unevenly and, despite a flurry of statistics, at times unscientifically. While Chavez, a former director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, starts out with the basic premise that today's Hispanics should be treated like the immigrants of yesteryear and be forced to forsake their language and culture for their own good when inconvenient, she argues the reverse midway through the book. She presents an accurate and well-cited discussion of bilingual eduation, a cornerstone issue of the Hispanic community, but then drops the academic analysis to press unpopular views with little foundation. For more complete coverage of bilingual education from an educator in the field, a preferable choice is Rosalie Porter's Forked Tongue ( LJ 5/15/90). Unfortunately, since little has been written solely on Hispanics as an ethnic minority, this may fill gaps in some collections.
- Sharon Roman, Carroll Cty. P.L., Westminster, Md.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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