Growing numbers of working-class Puerto Ricans are migrating from larger mainland metropolitan areas into smaller, safer communities in search of a better quality of life for themselves and their families. What they may also encounter in moving to such communities is a discourse of exclusion that associates their differences and their lower socioeconomic class with a lack of effort and an unwillingness to assimilate into mainstream culture. In this ethnographic study of a community in conflict, educator and anthropologist Ellen Bigler examines such discourses as she explores one city's heated...
Growing numbers of working-class Puerto Ricans are migrating from larger mainland metropolitan areas into smaller, safer communities in search of a be...
Bigler examines one city's heated dispute that arose over bringing multiculturalism and bilingual education into their lives and their schools' curricula, illuminating the nature of racial politics in the United States and how both sides in the debate over multicultural education struggle to find common language. In the PUERTO RICAN STUDIES series.
Bigler examines one city's heated dispute that arose over bringing multiculturalism and bilingual education into their lives and their schools' curric...
