Undocumented students and the policies of wasted potential /

Lopez?s ethnographic research focuses on college-ready, undocumented high school students and the teacher allies that assisted in these students? attempts to access higher education. She uses North Carolina as a test case. There policies made it difficult, if not financially impossible, for nearly e...

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Main Author: Lopez, Janet K., 1976-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: El Paso [Tex.] : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2010
Series:New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Undocumented Students in North Carolina; Chapter 2: Latino Experiences of Inequitable Education: Immigrant Children, Undocumented High School Students and North Carolina's Growing Population; Chapter 3: Critical Race Theory and Latino Critical Theory; Chapter 4: The Use of Critical and Reflexive Ethnography; Chapter 5: Broken Promises, Wasted Promise: How North Carolina's College Admission and Immigration Policies Prove Hollow; Chapter 6: Academic, Transnational and Undocumented: Conflicting Identities in Motion.
  • Chapter 7: Tactics of Resistance for Undocumented Mexican-Origin Students Chapter 8: Counternarratives to the Label of Illegal
  • Chapter 9: The Policies of Wasted Potential; Epilogue; Appendix A: Consent Forms; Appendix B: Interview Protocol; Appendix C: Estimate of Undocumented High School Population in North Carolina; Appendix D: Positionality; References; Index.