Angela Valenzuela is Professor in Curriculum and Instruction and Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.

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Acknowledgments

Foreword

Chapter 1
Introduction

The Study
Mexican Immigrant and Mexican American Achievement
The Subtractive Elements of Caring and Cultural Assimilation
Unmasking Barriers to Progress

Chapter 2
Seguín High School in Historical Perspective: Mexican Americans' Struggle for Equal Educational Opportunity in Houston

The Early Years
Changing Demographics and the "Mexicanization" of the East End and Seguín High
Ross v. Eckels and the Struggle for Just Integration
The Seguín School Walkout
Conclusion

Chapter 3
Teacher-Student Relations and the Politics of Caring

Teacher Caring
The "Uncaring Student" Prototype
"Americanized" Immigrant Youth
"Not Caring" As Student Resistance
Caring and Pedagogy
When Teachers Do Not Initiate Relation
Contributions and Limitations of the Caring and Education Literature
Love Is One Taquito Away

Chapter 4
Everyday Experiences in the Lives of Immigrant and U.S.-Born Youth

The Experience of Schooling for Mexican Immigrant Youth
Immigrant Youth and the Question of Empeño
Cross-Generational Gender and Social Capital
Social Capital among U.S.-Born Youth
Conclusion

Chapter 5
Subtractive Schooling and Divisions among Youth

Relationships and the "Politics of Difference"
Subtractive Schooling
Divisions among Youth
Conclusion

Chapter 6
Unity in Resistance to Schooling

Mutiny in Mr. Chilcoate's Classroom
Cinco de Mayo, 1993
The Talent Show

Chapter 7
Conclusion

Epilogue: Some Final Thoughts

Appendix: Research Methodology

Notes

References

Index