Diaspora Studies in Education

Rosalie Rolón-Dow is Associate Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Delaware.
Jason G. Irizarry is Director of the Center for Urban Education and Associate Professor in the College of Education at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

The Latino/a diaspora is undoubtedly transforming the demographics and cultural geographies of the United States. Diaspora Studies in Education advances an active use of the concept of «diaspora», focusing on processes that impact the diasporization of the Latino/a population, and more specifically, examining those diasporization processes in the arena of education. Focusing on the education of Puerto Ricans, the second largest Latino/a subgroup, the authors of this volume elucidate themes that are useful not only for those concerned with the education of Puerto Rican youth but also applicable to the study of other diasporic communities. The book is useful as a text in a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses, including foundations of education, multicultural education, anthropology of education, and introductory courses in Latino and ethnic studies departments.

Diaspora Studies in Education advances an active use of the concept of «diaspora», focusing on processes that impact the diasporization of the Latino/a population, and more specifically, examining those diasporization processes in the arena of education.

Contents: Rosalie Rolón-Dow/Jason G. Irizarry: Introduction: Towards a diaspora framework - Martín Espada: Heart of hunger - Nilda Flores-González/Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz: Latino/a diaspora, citizenship, and Puerto Rican youth in the immigrant rights movement - Jonathan Rosa: Learning ethnolinguistic borders: Language and diaspora in the socialization of U.S. Latinas/os - María E. Fránquiz: Hybrid Latina: Becoming a ChicaRican - Threads of diaspora through circular migration - Martín Espada: Coca-Cola and Coco Frío - Rosalie Rolón-Dow: Finding community cultural wealth in diaspora: A LatCrit analysis - Sandra Quiñones: Educated entremundos (between worlds): Exploring the role of diaspora in the lives of Puerto Rican teachers - Shabazz Napier/Jason G. Irizarry: Ballin' and becoming Boricua: From Roxbury to Rio Piedras and back again - Martín Espada: Tony went to the bodega but he didn't buy anything - Jason G. Irizarry/Enrique Figueroa: El Grito de Loisaida: DiaspoRicans, educational sovereignty, and the colonial project - Enid M. Rosario-Ramos: A DiaspoRican critical pedagogy: Redefining education for Puerto Rican youth - Eileen M. Gonzalez: From "La Borinqueña" to "The Star-Spangled Banner": An emic perspective on getting educated in the diaspora - Kristen Negron/Jason G. Irizarry: "The heartbeat": Education within and outside diaspora.