Mi Voz, Mi Vida by Andrew C Garrod

Mi Voz, Mi Vida by Andrew C Garrod

Amid the flurry of debates about immigration, poverty, and education in the United States, the stories in Mi Voz, Mi Vida allow us to reflect on how young people who might be most affected by the results of these debates actually navigate through American society. The fifteen Latino college students who tell their stories in this book come from a variety of socioeconomic, regional, and family backgrounds—they are young men and women of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Central American, and South American descent. Their insights are both balanced and frank, blending personal, anecdotal, political, and cultural viewpoints. Their engaging stories detail the students' personal struggles with issues such as identity and biculturalism, family dynamics, religion, poverty, stereotypes, and the value of education. Throughout, they provide insights into issues of racial identity in contemporary America among a minority population that is very much in the news. This book gives educators, students, and their families a clear view of the experience of Latino students adapting to a challenging educational environment and a cultural context—Dartmouth College—often very different from their childhood ones.

"Mi Voz, Mi Vida recounts the opening chapters in the life stories of a Latino generation that will reshape American history in the twenty-first centuryHere you will find true tales of strivers who often cross a wide cultural divide in search of ultimate success."—Héctor Tobar, author of Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish Speaking United States

Andrew Garrod is Professor of Education and Director of the Teacher Education Program at Dartmouth College. He is coeditor of First Person, First Peoples: Native American College Graduates Tell Their Life Stories, also from Cornell, among other books. Robert Kilkenny is Executive Director of the Alliance for Inclusion and Prevention and a Clinical Associate in the School of Social Work at Simmons College. He is the coeditor of Adolescent Portraits: Identity, Relationships and Challenges. Garrod and Kilkenny are the coeditors of Souls Looking Back: Life Stories of Growing Up Black. Christina G'mez is Associate Professor of Sociology and Latino and Latin American Studies at Northeastern Illinois University. She is the author of many articles on Latino identity and of the forthcoming book, Latinos, Class, and Boundaries of Whiteness.

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ISBN 13	9780801473869
ISBN 10	0801473861
Titel	Mi Voz, Mi Vida
Autor	Andrew C Garrod
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Cornell University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2007-03-22
Seitenanzahl	280
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