The Educational Welcome of Latinos in the New South

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Edmund T. Hamann

Foreword by Guadalupe M. Valdés

Book Code: H882

ISBN: 0-89789-882-6

ISBN-13: 978-0-89789-882-9

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288 pages, figures

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 9/30/2003

List Price: $95.00 (UK Sterling Price: £54.95)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Endorsement From Guadalupe Valdes, Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor of Education, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford University: Offers a unique view of the challenges faced by a community and school district in Georgia as it sought to respond to the educational needs of a newly arrived Mexican-origin population. As a first rate ethnography of educational policy, it provides a detailed and nuanced narrative of the roles of various community leaders in initiating (and in several cases abandoning) the region's first bilingual education program....I found it to be an outstanding contribution both to the study of educational policy and to the literature that focuses on the education of Latinos.
Endorsement From Amanda Datnow, Dept. of Theory and Policy Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto: This book is a must-read for educators, policymakers, and others. Drawing on rich ethnographic data, Hamann provides an engaging and eloquent account of an innovative project. This book boldly breaks new ground by exposing how educational policy is a complex, dynamic, and inherently political process, informed by beliefs about race, class, and culture.

Description: This is the tale of the origin, emergence, and transformation of an unorthodox binational partnership, the Georgia Project, that brought a Mexican university to aid a Georgia school district that suddenly found itself hosting thousands of Latino newcomers. It is also the tale of educational leaders evolving understandings of what they needed to do. This book tells the particular story of the Georgia Project, a partnership initiated between leading citizens, a school district, and a Mexican university to help Dalton, Georgia, the "Carpet Capital of the World" as it suddenly found itself host to the first majority Latino school district in Georgia. The book focuses on the evolving understandings of six early leders of this initiative and their resultant actions. It tries to carefully situate these particular actors within the larger swirl of conflicting scripts and public sphere messages regarding who Latino newcomers are, what they want and merited, and how the community should respond.

Table of Contents:

Dedication and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Negotiating a New Demography: Schooling and the "Latinization" of North Georgia
The Ethnography of Educational Policy
Places, Scripts, and People: The Particularities of People and Settings
125 Years of Race, Class, and Corporate Paternalism in Dalton
Of Immigration Scripts and the Conceptualization of Latino Newcomers
The Georgia Projects Dalton Founders
Mexican University Partners
A Novel Binational Partnership: From Launch to Consolidation
The Complaints of a "Parapro," Action, and One School Pointing the Way
Designing a Partnership: Three Meetings, a Grant Proposal, and a Challenge
Visiting Instructors: Experts or Parapros?
Summer Training in Mexico and Its Challenge to Traditional Governance
We Want Bilingual Education Except We Don't
The Universidad Also Does What It Wants
Something Gained and Something Lost
Ephemeral Opportunity or Inclusive New Order
The Politics of Latino Education Policy: Implications of the Georgia Project
Epilogue

LC Card Number: 2003054721

LCC Class: LC2674

Dewey Class: 371


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