In this book, Rodríguez uses theories of critical literacy and culturally responsive teaching to argue that our schools, and our culture, need sustaining and inclusive young adult (YA) literature/s to
In this book, Rodríguez uses theories of critical literacy and culturally responsive teaching to argue that our schools, and our culture, need sustaining and inclusive young adult (YA) literature/s to
"Fresh, nuanced and insightful .[A] thoughtful, readable contribution to the immigration debates. Houston ChronicleSpanning four continents and several years in the lives of seven immigrant families,
In these pages we follow a South Asian couple from the computer industry of Bangalore, India, to a small software start-up in Silicon Valley; a Mexican family who travels to work in the meatpacking p
To live in Spanish Harlem, New York's oldest barrio, is to confront some of the city's most endemic problems: crime, drugs, AIDS, and chronic unemployment. Yet the mecca where Puerto Ricans first esta
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"Well done, haunting, and thorough." —CNN NewsNight with Aaron Brown In 1989, juvenile courts handed 1.2 million delinquency cases. A decade later, this number had risen 44 percent, to 1.8 m
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