TY - BOOK ID - 77888819 TI - Subtractive schooling PY - 1999 SN - 0585281009 9780585281001 0791443213 0791443221 9780791443217 9780791443224 0791443213 9780791443217 9781438443224 1438422628 9781438422626 PB - Albany, N.Y. State University of New York Press DB - UniCat KW - Mexican Americans KW - Children of immigrants KW - Mexican American youth KW - Hijos de inmigrantes KW - Juventud mexicano americana KW - Provision of education. KW - Educational policy. KW - Youth. KW - Mexicans. KW - Youth, Mexican American KW - Youth KW - First generation children KW - Immigrants' children KW - Second generation children KW - Immigrants KW - Chicanos KW - Hispanos KW - Ethnology KW - Education (Secondary) KW - Social conditions KW - EducaciĆ³n secundaria KW - Condiciones sociales UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77888819 AB - "Subtractive Schooling provides a framework for understanding the patterns of immigrant achievement and U.S.-born underachievement frequently noted in the literature and observed by the author in her ethnographic account of regular-track youth attending a comprehensive, virtually all-Mexican, inner-city high school in Houston. Valenzuela argues that schools subtract resources from youth in two major ways: firstly by dismissing their definition of education and secondly through assimilationist policies and practices that minimize their culture and language. A key consequence is the erosion of students' social capital evident in the absence of academically oriented networks among acculturated, U.S.-born youth."--Jacket. ER -