Title Del Otro Lado : Literacy and Migration across the U.S.-Mexico Border.

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Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2014.

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Description	1 online resource (210 pages)
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Contents	Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Crisis and Contract; 2. "Aren't You Scared?"; 3. "They Make a Lot of Sacrifices"; 4. "They Didn't Tell Me Anything"; 5. "So You Don't Get Tricked"; 6. "Like Going from Black and White to Color"; Conclusion; Appendix / Interview Questions; Notes; References; Index; Author Biography; Back Cover.
Summary	In Del Otro Lado: Literacy and Migration across the U.S.-Mexico Border, author Susan V. Meyers draws on her year-long ethnographic study in Mexico and the United States to analyze the literacy practices of Mexican-origin students on both sides of the border. Meyers begins by taking readers through the historical development of the rural Mexican town of Villachuato. Through a series of case studies spanning the decades between the Mexican Revolution and the modern-day village, Meyers explores the ever-widening gulf between the priorities of students and the ideals of.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject	Literacy -- Social aspects -- United States -- Case studies.
	Literacy -- Social aspects.
	United States.
Genre/Form	Case studies.
Subject	Education -- Mexico -- Villachuato -- Case studies.
	Education.
	Mexico.
	Mexican Americans -- Education -- United States -- Case studies.
	Mexican Americans -- Education.
	Villachuato (Mexico) -- Emigration and immigration -- Case studies.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
	Case studies.
Other Form:	Print version: Meyers, Susan V. Del Otro Lado : Literacy and Migration across the U.S.-Mexico Border. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2014 9780809333424
ISBN	9780809333431
	0809333430
	9780809333424 (paperback)
	0809333422 (paperback)

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