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Authors: Dulce Mar'a Gray
ISBN-13: 9780742500051, ISBN-10: 0742500055
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: February 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)
High Literacy and Ethnic Identity describes the experiences of fifteen men and women who arrived with the first and second wave of immigrants from the Dominican Republic to the United States and who, despite the odds, succeeded in completing the highest level of formal educationa doctorateand are now educators in U.S. colleges and universities.
Preface | ||
Ch. 1 | Talking Theories | 1 |
Ch. 2 | Internal Geography: Acquiring High Literacy | 33 |
Ch. 3 | Parents | 73 |
Ch. 4 | Professors | 105 |
Ch. 5 | Dominican Cultural Markers | 139 |
Ch. 6 | Ruminating... A Measure of Closure | 181 |
Works Cited | 219 | |
Index | 233 | |
About the Author | 235 |