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Mi voz, mi vida/ My Voice, My Life: Latino College Students Tell their Life Stories


Amid the flurry of debates about immigration, poverty, and education in the United States, the stories in Mi Voz, Mi Vida allow us to reflect on how young people who might be most affected by the results of these debates actually navigate through American society. The fifteen Latino college students who tell their stories in this book come from a variety of socioeconomic, regional, and family backgrounds–they are young men and women of Mexican, Puerto… More >>

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Black Youth Matters: Transitions from School to Success

  • ISBN13: 9780415995122
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.


How do young black students respond, resist, and work to transform their school experience? How do young people adapt, survive, and then succeed in spite of their negative school experience? For an increasing number of marginalized black youth, the paths to social success can actually lie outside school walls. Black Youth Matters presents a compelling, empirical picture of black youth who creatively respond to permanent school exclusion. Structural approaches to s… More >>

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Strong Words of Wisdom From Leaders of Our Past For Our Youth

The young leaders of the nation today have still a lot to learn from the old leaders of the past, the spirit of togetherness and oneness for people of various races, religion, and country can live together in peace, unity, understanding between one another and harmony, and the political struggle for Independence, progress and growth of the nation.

The younger generation has much to learn of the older generation of leaders who have sacrificed their lives to see a nation of future growth and prosperity, one of racial tolerance where all the races can live together in a spirit of understanding and harmony, inculcate qualities and traits of good citizenship amongst the youth and, loyalty to God and to the King and the will to help others at all times indeed make the strongest possible basis for good citizenship and for the help in building a nation.

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