RESTORING OPPORTUNITY: THE CRISIS OF INEQUALITY AND THE CHALLENGE FOR AMERICAN EDUCATION

Author: Greg J. Duncan, Richard J. Murnane

Publisher:  Harvard Education Press

ISBN-13: 978-1612506340

In this landmark volume, Greg J. Duncan and Richard J. Murnane lay out a meticulously researched case showing how—in a time of spiraling inequality—strategically targeted interventions and supports can help schools significantly improve the life chances of low-income children.

They describe the interplay of social and economic factors that has made it increasingly hard for schools to counteract the effects of inequality and that has created a widening wedge between low- and high-income students.

ALL ARE WELCOME

Author: Alexandra Penfold

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

ISBN-13: 978-0525579649

Join the call for a better world with this New York Times best-selling picture book about a school where diversity and inclusion are celebrated. The perfect back-to-school read for every kid, family and classroom!

Discover a school where all young children have a place, have a space, and are loved and appreciated. 

Readers will follow a group of children through a day in their school, where everyone is welcomed with open arms. 

BACK TO SCHOOL: WHY EVERYONE DESERVES A SECOND CHANCE AT EDUCATION

Authors: Mike Rose

Publisher: The New Press, Reprint edition

ISBN-13: 978-0575084681

The statistics come as a total surprise to most: 45 percent of postsecondary school students do not enroll directly out of high school. Many are part-time students, people who are returning to school after life intervened, or otherwise “nontraditional” learners -and this segment is growing. Back to School is the first book to look at this population of “second chancers,” in a work that Make magazine calls “optimistic yet simultaneously realistic.”

EQUITY AND EXCELLENCE IN AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION 

Author: William G. Bowen, Martin J. Kurzweil, Eugene M. Tobin

Publisher: University of Virginia Press 

ISBN-13: 978-0813925578

Thomas Jefferson once stated that the foremost goal of American education must be to nurture the "natural aristocracy of talent and virtue." Although in many ways American higher education has fulfilled Jefferson’s vision by achieving a widespread level of excellence, it has not achieved the objective of equity implicit in Jefferson’s statement. In Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education, William G. Bowen, Martin A. Kurzweil, and Eugene M. Tobin explore the cause for this divide.

Higher Education

Featuring Books on Hispanic Heritage from University of New Mexico Press

¡QUE VIVAN LOS TAMALES!

Author: Jeffrey M. Pilcher

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Paperback ISBN: 9780826318732

Connections between what people eat and who they are--between cuisine and identity--reach deep into Mexican history, beginning with pre-Columbian inhabitants offering sacrifices of human flesh to maize gods in hope of securing plentiful crops. This cultural history of food in Mexico traces the influence of gender, race, and class on food preferences from Aztec times to the present and relates cuisine to the formation of national identity.  

Native foods and flavors persisted and became an essential part of indigenista ideology.

REGIMES OF LANGUAGE

Author: Edited by Paul. V. Kroskrity

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Paperback ISBN: 9780933452626

In Regimes of Language, ten leading linguistic anthropologists integrate two often segregated domains: politics (without language) and language (without politics). Their essays contribute to an understanding of the role of language ideologies and discursive practices in state formation, nationalism, and the maintenance of ethnic groups, on the one hand, and in the creation of national, ethnic, and professional identities, on the other.

Moving beyond a preoccupation with ideologies of cultural “others,” the volume includes reflexive analyses.

OY, MY BUENOS AIRES: JEWISH IMMIGRANTS AND THE CREATION OF ARGENTINE NATIONAL IDENTITY

Author:  Mollie Lewis Nouwen

Publisher:  University of New Mexico Press

Paperback ISBN: 9780826353504

Between 1905 and 1930, more than one hundred thousand Jews left Central and Eastern Europe to settle permanently in Argentina. This book explores how these Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi immigrants helped to create a new urban strain of the Argentine national identity. Like other immigrants, Jews embraced Buenos Aires and Argentina while keeping ethnic identities—they spoke and produced new literary works in their native Yiddish and continued Jewish cultural traditions brought from Europe, from foodways to holidays.

CH’ORTI’-MAYA SURVIVAL IN EASTERN GUATEMALA: INDIGENEITY IN TRANSITION

Author: Brent E. Metz

Publisher:  University of New Mexico Press

ISBN Hardcover: 9780826338808

Scholars and Guatemalans have characterized eastern Guatemala as “Ladino” or non-Indian. The Ch’orti’ do not exhibit the obvious indigenous markers found among the Mayas of western Guatemala, Chiapas, and the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. Few still speak Ch’orti’, most no longer wear distinctive dress, and most community organizations have long been abandoned. 

During the colonial period, the Ch’orti’ region was adjacent to relatively vibrant economic regions of Central America that included major trade routes, mines, and dye plantations.