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We Are All Equal: Student Culture and Identity at a Mexican Secondary School, 1988–1998

We Are All Equal: Student Culture and Identity at a Mexican Secondary School, 1988–1998


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"We Are All Equal" is a full-length ethnography of a Mexican secondary school in English. Bradley A.U. Levinson observes student life at a provincial Mexican junior high, often drawing on poignant interviews, to study how the school's powerful emphasis on equality, solidarity, and group unity dissuades the formation of polarized peer groups and affects students' eventual life trajectories. Exploring how students develop a cultural "game of equality" that enables them to identify - across typical class and social boundaries - with their peers, the school, and the nation, Levinson considers such issues as the organizational and discursive resources that students draw on to maintain this culture. He also engages cultural studies, media studies, and globalization theory to examine the impact of television, music, and homelife on the students and thereby better comprehend - and problematize - the educational project of the state. Finding that an ethic of solidarity is sometimes used to condemn students defined as different or uncooperative and that little attention is paid to accommodating the varied backgrounds of the students - including their connection to indigenous, peasant, or working class identities - Levinson reveals that their "schooled identity" often collapses in the context of migration to the United States or economic crisis in Mexico. Finally, he extends his study to trace whether the cultural game is reinforced or eroded after graduation as well as its influence relative to the forces of family, traditional gender roles, church, and global youth culture. "We Are All Equal" should be of particular interest to educators, sociologists, Latin Americanists, and anthropologists.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Questions and Methods for a Study of Student Culture 1. Historical Contexts: The Adolescent, The Nation, and the Secundaria, 1923-1993 2. Ethnographic Beginnings: A City, A School, an Anthropologist 3. Institutional Contexts: The School Students Encountered 4. Somos Muy Unidos: The Production of Student Culture in the Grupo Escolar 5. Sites of Social Difference and the Production of Schooled Identity 6. Friendship Groups, Youth Culture, and the Limits of Solidarity 7. Political Economic Change, Life Trajectories, and Identity Formation: 1988-1998 8. Games are Serious: Final Reflections on Mexican Secondary Student Culture Appendix A: Structure, Culture, and Subjectivity: The Elements of Practice Appendix B: Focal Student Profiles Notes Works Cited Index

About the Author :
Bradley A. U. Levinson is Assistant Professor of Education and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University.

Review :
"Levinson shows us how to think in a different way about studying youth and identity construction in a particular socio-historical context. This first-rate and innovative ethnography will establish him as one of the best newcomers on the scene."- Douglas Foley, author of The Heartland Chronicles "An important conceptual, theoretical, and methodological work on a crucial topic. We Are All Equal will open important avenues not just for education scholars but for those of us interested in ethnographic approaches to a wide variety of topics and across a multiplicity of disciplines."- Mary Kay Vaughan, author of Cultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1934-1940


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780822326991
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Sub Title: Student Culture and Identity at a Mexican Secondary School, 1988–1998
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 082232699X
  • Publisher Date: 12 Jul 2001
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Weight: 862 gr


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