Critical Race Counterstories along the Chicana/Chicano Educational Pipeline / Edition 1

by Tara J. Yosso

Overview

Chicanas/os are part of the youngest, largest, and fastest growing racial/ethnic "minority" population in the United States, yet at every schooling level, they suffer the lowest educational outcomes of any racial/ethnic group. Using a "counterstorytelling" methodology, Tara Yosso debunks racialized myths that blame the victims for these unequal educational outcomes and redirects our focus toward historical patterns of institutional neglect. She artfully interweaves empirical data and theoretical arguments with engaging narratives that expose and analyze racism as it functions to limit access and opportunity for Chicana/o students. By humanizing the need to transform our educational system, Yosso offers an accessible tool for teaching and learning about the problems and possibilities present along the Chicano/a educational pipeline.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900415951967
Publication date:	11/08/2005
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Tara Yosso is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Table of Contents

1. Why Use Critical Race Theory and Counterstorytelling to Analyze the Chicana/o Educational Pipeline?

2. Madres Por la Educacíon: Community Cultural Wealth at Southside Elementary

3. Students On the Move: Desegregation at Bandini High School

4. Chicana/o Undergraduate 'Stages of Passage': Campus Racial Climate at Midwestern University

5. "It's Exhausting Being Mexican American!": Navigating through Graduate School at the University of the Southwest

Epilogue: El Pueblo Unido

Editorial Reviews

"The perfect combination of empiricism, qualitative analysis, and literature. Engaged scholarship at its best." — Richard Delgado, Distinguished Professor of Law & Derrick Bell Fellow, University of Pittsburgh
"Tara Yosso is a prolific contributor to the path-breaking area of critical race theory in education, and is both a rigorous scholar and powerful storyteller. Her critical race counterstories are grounded in wide-ranging data, and challenge us to consider race, class, gender, language, and immigration status in relationship to the schooling of Chicanas/Chicanos. This book represents provocative, insightful, and accessible scholarship from which students, educators, and educational researchers have much to gain." — Dolores Delgado Bernal, Associate Professor of Education and Ethnic Studies, University of Utah

"This is an outstanding contribution to the growing scholarship on Chicana/o education. Yosso skillfully provides the field with the most powerful and insightful analysis ever produced about the experiences Chicanas/os endure as they navigate the obstacle-laden educational pipeline, from elementary school through graduate school. Using the lens of critical race theory and a rich corpus of social science research, Yosso shapes multiple counterstories into a dynamic fusion of shared discourse that challenges social and racial injustice along the educational pipeline. Critical Race Counterstories offers visibility to the invisible, and much hope to Chicanas/os who face despair at the margins of society." — Richard R. Valencia, Professor of Educational Psychology and Faculty Associate of the Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Austin

"[Tara J. Yosso's] stellar scholarship provides the missing voices of students through counterstories, a methodological strategy based on a cutting-edge framework: critical race theory in education...The valuable book offers the fields of both Chicano studies and education new methodologies and theoretical frameworks with which to analyze Chicana/o students' experiences."—Journal of Latinos and Education, 6(1) by Valerie Talavera-Bustillos, California State University, Los Angeles

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