The Plight Of Invisibility: A Community-Based Approach To Understanding The Educational Experiences Of Urban Latina/Os (Critical Studies Of Latinxs In The Americas)

Offers contributions that inform the use of a community-based research approach that examines educational issues identified by urban, Latina/o communities and provides an alternate perspective from which to understand the circumstances of Latina/o students in schools as they navigate in social systems that are in opposition to them. Includes examples of community programs and resources that support and address the needs of Latina/o students as they build resiliency and determination to persist. --From publisher description.

• • Author: Donna M. Harris, Judy Marquez Kiyama
• • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• • Publication Date: Jan 30, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 201 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1433125803
• • ISBN-13: 9781433125805