High Literacy and Ethnic Identity
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 education-a doctorate-and are now educators in US colleges and universities. Examining these cultural narratives reveals much about the complex symbiosis between becoming highly literate and (re)constructing an ethnic identity;...
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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 education—a doctorate—and are now educators in U.S. colleges and universities.
PrefaceCh. 1Talking Theories1Ch. 2Internal Geography: Acquiring High Literacy33Ch. 3Parents73Ch. 4Professors105Ch. 5Dominican Cultural Markers139Ch. 6Ruminating... A Measure of Closure181Works Cited219Index233About the Author235
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