US Latinization : education and the new Latino South / edited by Spencer Salas and Pedro R. Portes.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Building on immigrant parents' repertoires : scaffolding online home-school communication in new Latin@ diaspora contexts / Silvia Noguerón-Liu, Deavours Hall, & Peter Smagorinsky -- Increasing immigrant settlement and the challenges and opportunities for public education in Charlotte, North Carolina / Paul N. McDaniel, Susan B. Harden, Heather A. Smith, & Owen Furuseth -- Beyond commodified knowledge : the possibilities of powerful community learning spaces / Colleen M. Fairbanks, Beverly S. Faircloth, Laura M. Gonzalez, Ye He, Edna Tan, & Melody Zoch -- Educating to empower Latina/os in mathematics in the New South / Anthony Fernandes, Marta Civil, Altha Cravey, & María DeGuzmán -- Ways of knowing, community/technical college workforce (re)development, and "el mundo de hoy" / Mark M. D'Amico, Spencer Salas, Manuel S. Gonzalez Canche, Cecilia Rios-Aguilar, & Gregory F. Rutherford -- Professional development and funded interventions as means to improve Latino/a student achievement : a research and development perspective / Rolf Straubhaar, Paula J. Mellom, & Pedro R. Portes -- Que las maestras hablaran más con ellos : children grappling with documentation status at school / Holly Link, Sarah Gallo, & Stanton Wortham -- Topography of trámites: mixed-status families' map of the new Latino diaspora / Ariana Mangual Figueroa -- The Maya diaspora Yucatan-San Francisco : new Latino educational practices and possibilities / Patricia Baquedano-López & Gabriela Borge Janetti -- A research agenda for Latin@ youth's new media use in the New South : "common sense for the common good" / Donna E. Alvermann & Eliane Rubinstein-Ávila -- Challenges to policy as a tool for educational equity : the case of language and ability difference intersections / Adai Tefera, Taucia Gonzalez, & Alfredo J. Artiles -- The limits of "a thousand points of light" ideology for a Latino post-first generation / Pedro R. Portes & Spencer Salas -- The Latino gender divide in education : are Latinas really faring better than their brothers? / Patricia Gándara -- Immigration, social change, and reactive ethnicity in the second generation / Alejandro Portes & Bryan Lagae.

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