US Latinization

List of Illustrations Foreword Luis C. Moll Editors' Introduction Spencer Salas and Pedro R. Portes Part I. The Shifting Social Geography of K-16 Communities 1. Building on Immigrant Parents' Repertoires: Scaffolding Online Home-School Communication in New Latin@ Diaspora Contexts Silvia Nogueron-Liu, Deavours Hall, and Peter Smagorinsky 2. Increasing Immigrant Settlement and the Challenges and Opportunities for Public Education in Charlotte, North Carolina Paul N. McDaniel, Susan B. Harden, Heather A. Smith, and Owen J. Furuseth 3. Beyond Commodified Knowledge: The Possibilities of Powerful Community Learning Spaces Colleen M. Fairbanks, Beverly S. Faircloth, Laura M. Gonzalez, Ye He, Edna Tan, and Melody Zoch 4. Educating to Empower Latina/os in Mathematics in the New South Anthony Fernandes, Marta Civil, Altha Cravey, and Maria DeGuzman 5. Ways of Knowing, Community/Technical College Workforce (Re)Development, and "El Mundo de Hoy" Mark M. D'Amico, Spencer Salas, Manuel S. Gonzalez Canche, Cecilia Rios-Aguilar, and Gregory F. Rutherford 6. Professional Development and Funded Interventions as Means to Improve Latino/a Student Achievement: A Research and Development Perspective Rolf Straubhaar, Paula J. Mellom, and Pedro R. Portes 7. Que las maestras hablaran mas con ellos: Children Grappling With Documentation Status at School Holly Link, Sarah Gallo, and Stanton Wortham 8. Topography of Tramites: Mixed-Status Families' Map of the New Latino Diaspora Ariana Mangual Figueroa 9. The Maya Diaspora Yucatan-San Francisco: New Latino Educational Practices and Possibilities Patricia Baquedano-Lopez and Gabriela Borge Janetti Part II. Research, Policy, and a Postfirst Generation 10. A Research Agenda for Latin@ Youth's New Media Use in the New South: ?Common sense for the common good? Donna E. Alvermann and Eliane Rubinstein-Avila 11. Challenges to Policy as a Tool for Educational Equity: The Case of Language and Ability Difference Intersections Adai A. Tefera, Taucia Gonzalez, and Alfredo J. Artiles 12. The Limits of "A Thousand Points of Light" Ideology for a Latino Postfirst Generation Pedro R. Portes and Spencer Salas 13. The Latino Gender Divide in Education: Are Latinas Really Faring Better Than Their Brothers? Patricia Gandara 14. Immigration, Social Change, and Reactive Ethnicity in the Second Generation Alejandro Portes and Bryan Lagae Afterword Richard P. Duran Contributors Index