The succeeders : how immigrant youth are transforming what it means to belong in America / Andrea Flores.
"This book--a story of social reproduction and change--illustrates how the larger ideological struggles over who belongs in this country, who is valuable, and who is an American are worked out by young people through their everyday acts of striving in school and caring for friends and family. It use...
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| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | California series in public anthropology ;
53. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction : "Be somebody" : the stakes of academic achievement
- City of success : living and learning in Music City
- Mowing the lawn and getting pregnant : Latinidad and educational exceptionalism
- "Your story is your ticket" : becoming a moral minority and reproducing exclusion
- "Their name is also written on my diploma" : striving for parental inclusion
- "Education with her family" : caring for siblings and redefining success
- Somos una familia : transforming belonging and making friends into family
- Conclusion : graduations.