Chicanas and Chicanos in School: Racial Profiling, Identity Battles, and Empowerment

by Marcos Pizarro

Book Overview

By any measure of test scores and graduation rates, public schools are failing to educate a large percentage of Chicana/o youth. But despite years of analysis of this failure, no consensus has been reached as to how to realistically address it. Taking a new approach to these issues, Marcos Pizarro goes directly to Chicana/o students in both urban and rural school districts to ask what their school experiences are really like, how teachers and administrators...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292706650
• ISBN13: 9780292706651
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"