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Author : Carmen A. Rolón
Release : 1998
Genre : Education, Secondary
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Book Synopsis The Experiences of Puerto Rican Female Students in U.S. Public Secondary Schools by : Carmen A. Rolón
Download or read book The Experiences of Puerto Rican Female Students in U.S. Public Secondary Schools written by Carmen A. Rolón. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy Hoffman
Release : 2000
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 525/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women's Studies Quarterly (28: 3-4) by : Nancy Hoffman
Download or read book Women's Studies Quarterly (28: 3-4) written by Nancy Hoffman. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundbreaking volume provides positive strategies for eliminating gender bias in middle school and high school classrooms.
Author : Sonia Nieto
Release : 2000-04-01
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 585/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Puerto Rican Students in U.s. Schools by : Sonia Nieto
Download or read book Puerto Rican Students in U.s. Schools written by Sonia Nieto. This book was released on 2000-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume--the first edited book on the education of Puerto Ricans written primarily by Puerto Rican authors--focuses on the history and experiences of Puerto Rican students in the United States by addressing issues of identity, culture, ethnicity, language, gender, social activism, community involvement, and policy implications. It is the first book to both concentrate on the education of Puerto Ricans in particular, and to bring together in one volume, the major and emerging scholars who are developing cutting-edge scholarship in the field. Puerto Rican Students in U.S. Schools: * features both scholarly chapters (conceptual and research studies) and reflective essays, as well as two poems, * combines broad overview studies with classroom practice and social action, and * includes chapters that trace the history of the education of Puerto Ricans in U.S. schools in general and its history in New York City, and one chapter on return migrants.
Author : Teresa McKenna
Release : 1988
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Broken Web by : Teresa McKenna
Download or read book The Broken Web written by Teresa McKenna. This book was released on 1988. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Magdalena Natalia Zalewski
Release : 2011-10
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The Discovery of Female Adolescent Sexuality in the Cultural Context of Puerto Rico by : Magdalena Natalia Zalewski
Download or read book The Discovery of Female Adolescent Sexuality in the Cultural Context of Puerto Rico written by Magdalena Natalia Zalewski. This book was released on 2011-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, LMU Munich (Amerika-Institut), course: Ethnicity and American Identity in Contemporary Fiction, language: English, abstract: Esmeralda Santiago's When I Was Puerto Rican was her first autobiographic novel and it was the precursor of two following memoirs: Almost a Woman and The Turkish Lover. In When I Was Puerto Rican Santiago tells of her early childhood during the 1950s and '60s. The story told in the novel starts in Puerto Rico at Santiago's age of four up to the age of thirteen when she immigrates with her mother and her then six siblings to the US to live in Brooklyn, New York. Her memoir does not only show the difficulty of switching between two different cultures and mentalities, American and Puerto Rican, but it also portrays the coming of age process of a girl who has to find a balance between her individual desires and expectations of her surrounding world. The novel reveals the Santiago family's dealings with the pitfalls of poverty and their dreams of a better life. This family experiences life in all varieties: they are moving from the rural town of Macún to the urban area of Santurce, a district of Puerto Rico's capital San Juan. The family's destiny as a whole unity is yet only a framing plot. The novel illustrates the struggle of understanding the world from a child's perspective. In the case of young Esmeralda it is especially hard to understand the dynamics of her unmarried parents' relationship. For her it is a challenging rethinking process to learn how to tell from her parents' behavior, who is right and who is wrong. She also longs for appreciation called forth by sibling rivalry and the maternal responsibility for her younger sisters and brothers make Esmeralda question woman- and manhood, which eventually leads her to an inner rebellion. In When I Was Puerto Rican Santiago shares the beginning of her search for the intricate question of her
