About the Book
Remaining and Becoming: Cultural Crosscurrents in an Hispano School deals with the politics of identity and the concept of boundaries during a time of rapid change. It investigates how the role of schooling for Hispanos in the Norteno School District (a pseudonym) in Northern New Mexico--a public school district, not fully consolidated until 1972--has changed significantly over the past three generations. Today, the Hispanos, a minority in the outside world but a majority in their own, are debating how the functions of the school should respond to the changes resulting from the coming of public education to their region. But the contemporary story of education in Norteno has much deeper roots in the political, religious, and cultural history of Northern New Mexico--a region where, over a period of several centuries, Spain, Mexico, and the United States each have claimed sovereignty, with differing goals for and attitudes about the welfare of the people. This study is an analysis of the ambiguity of education, the losses and gains that are its consequences, the lingering doubts about the past, and the questions about what future education can and should serve.
It is about asking: Is what the students are learning worth as much as what they are forgetting? How does schooling affect the evolving process of asserting, renegotiating, and defending an Hispano identity? By exploring historical factors and ideologies of a particular school within a particular community, Roberts seeks to understand community expectations for the school as a fitting place for its children. The goal is not to generalize from the particular to the universal, but to join others in suggesting that we move away from discussing students in a generic sense and focus instead on looking at them in relation to the community in which they live. The fascinating and largely unknown story this book tells will be of interest to educators, researchers, and students across a range of fields, including sociology of education, educational anthropology, multicultural education, ethnic studies, Chicano studies, and qualitative research in education.
Table of Contents:
Section I: Cities and InequalityIntroduction1. An Arab philosophy of history: Selections from the Prologema of Ibn Khaldun of Tunis (1332-1406)2. The Prince and the Discourses, Niccolo Machiavelli3. The city, the division of labor and the emergence of capitalism, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels4. Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism, V.I. LeninSection II: Past and PresentIntroduction5. Daily life in China on the eve of the Mongol invasion, 1250-1276, Jacques Gernet6. The condition of working-class in England, Friedrich Engels7. The home of man, Barbara Ward (Lady Jackson)8. Urban Latin America: the political condition from above and below, Alejandro Portes9. Patterns of urbanization and socio-economic development in the third world: an overview, Richard Hay Jr.Section III: New Theories on Third World DevelopmentIntroduction10. On the sociology of national development: theories and issues, Alejandro Portes11. Dependency: a critical synthesis of the literature, Ronald H. Chilcote12. Underdevelopment and dependence in Black Africa - origins and contemporary forms, Samir AminSection IV: Problem Manifestations in Urbanization: Regional ImbalancesIntroduction13. The geography of modernization: paths, patterns and processes of spatial change in developing countries, Edward W. Soja and Richard J. Tobin14. Colonialism and the spatial structure of underdevelopment: outlines of an alternative approach, with special reference to Tanzania, D. Slater15. Center and periphery in the development process: the case of Peru, Bryan R. RobertsMigration in Rural AreasIntroduction16. Rural-urban mobility in South and Southeast Asia: different formulations... different answers?, T.G. Mcgee17. The political sociology of cityward migration in Latin America: Toward empirical theory, Wayne A. Cornelius, Jr.18. The African crowd in Nairobi: popular movements and elite politics, Frank FurediJobs and Class StratificationIntroduction19. The life of a Jakarta street trader, Lea Jellinek20. The persistence of the proto-proletariat: occupational structures and planning of the future of third world cities, T.G. McGee21. International corporations, labor aristocracies and economical development in tropical Africa, Giovanni Arrighi22. Contrasts and continuity in a dependent city: Kano, Nigeria, Paul M. LubeckHousing, Squatting and the Self-Help PrincipleIntroduction23. Squatting and squatters, Charles Abrams24. Hooverville - a community of homeless men, Donald Francis Roy25. The case of 'The People Vs. Mr. Urbano Planner Y Adminstrador', May Racelis Hollnsteiner26. Development alternatives for the Peruvian Barriada, Diego Robles Rivas27. Housing-settlement types, arrangements for living, proletarianization and the social structure of the city, Anthony LeedsSection V: Goals and PoliciesIntroduction28. Declaration of Principles, HABITAT: united nations conference on human settlements29. Policies, planning and institutions, HABITAT: United Nations conference on human settlements
About the Author :
Janet Abu-Lughod, Richard Hay Jr.
