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"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.

Mexican Americans --- Children of immigrants --- Mexican American youth --- Hijos de inmigrantes --- Juventud mexicano americana --- Provision of education. --- Educational policy. --- Youth. --- Mexicans. --- Youth, Mexican American --- Youth --- First generation children --- Immigrants' children --- Second generation children --- Immigrants --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Ethnology --- Education (Secondary) --- Social conditions --- Educación secundaria --- Condiciones sociales