Villanueva, Victor, Jr

Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color

Urbana, Ill: National Council of Teachers of English, Ill: National Council of Teachers of English, 1993, 169
«Presenting a look at how racism works to inhibit academic achievement by limiting academic opportunities, this personal narrative weaves stories from an individual's life withan examination of research and popular thought on language use, literacy, and intelligence among people of color. The narrative considers the personal experiences of an academic of color (in this specific case, an American of Puerto Rican heritage) in thelight of the history of rhetoric, the English Only movement, current socio-and psycho-linguistic theory, and the writings of Antonio Gramsci and Paulo Freire, among others, as well as the phenomenon of assimilation... Chapter 7 is on Intellectuals and Hegemony. A "Post(modern)script" is attached....(RS)».
Lingua eng
Nomi [author] Villanueva, Victor, Jr
Soggetti
Educazione (Pedagogia)
Razzismo
Ispanico Americani
Freire, Paulo
Studi di caso
Porto Rico
Education
Racism
Hispanic Americans
Freire, Paulo
Puerto Rico