{"product_id":"academic-profiling-9780816687404","title":"Academic Profiling","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Remarkably provocative and perceptive, \u003ci\u003eAcademic Profiling \u003c\/i\u003eis a meticulously researched and masterfully argued comparative study of how the system of schooling, contrary to the rhetoric of equal opportunities, re-enforces the achievement gap and reproduces disparities. With ethnographic insight and analytical precision, Gilda L. Ochoa details how immigration, racialization, class, and gender differentially impacts the educational trajectories for Asian and Latino students, and presents compelling lessons for transforming the context, culture, and process of learning.\" —Linda Vo, University of California, Irvine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"In the absence of an all-encompassing social movement, Ochoa demonstrates how only a courageous, power-conscious, counter-hegemonic curriculum can act as a counterweight to divisive policies and practices like student tracking. Ochoa has done the important work of addressing the complexities of Latino\/a and Asian American schooling in one community and given us a language, framework, and perspective with which to discuss and critique it.\" —Angela Valenzuela, University of Texas, Austin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"By centering students’ experiences, in \u003ci\u003eAcademic Profiling\u003c\/i\u003e Ochoa exposes the many faults in our educational system and the ways that students and our communities are hurt.\"—\u003ci\u003ePomona College News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A valuable and long overdue piece of research on the achievement gap.\"—\u003ci\u003eSociological Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An ambitious ethnographic study of a single racially diverse high school in southern California. This book stands out because it moves beyond the conventional black\/white comparison and instead systematically compares Latino and Asian American students, an important contribution because of the increasingly diverse racial makeup of the United States.\"—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Powerful and purposeful in both argument and research, Gilda L. Ochoa unapologetically calls attention to the ways in which lived disparities of Latinos and Asian Americans in school lead to more than just gaps in achievement.\"—\u003ci\u003eLatino Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Some of the strengths of \u003ci\u003eAcademic Profiling\u003c\/i\u003e lie in its rich data, its ability to turn the rhetoric of equal opportunity on its head, and Ochoa’s awareness of her influence as a Latina researcher. Her work clearly shows that while teachers emphasize freedom of choice, students are not all equally free.\"—\u003ci\u003eAnthropology \u0026amp; Education Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbbreviations\u003cb\u003ePreface\u003cb\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cb\u003eIntroduction: Academic Profiling at a Southern California High School\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003ePart I: Prevailing Ideologies and School Structures\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Framing the “Gap”: Dominant Discourses of Achievement\u003cb\u003e2. Welcome to High School: Tracking from Middle School to International Baccalaureate Programs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003ePart II: School Practices and Family Resources\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. “I’m Watching Your Group”: Regulating Students Unequally\u003cb\u003e4. “Parents Spend Half a Million on Tutoring”: Standardized Tests and Tutoring Gaps\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003ePart III: Everyday Relationships and Forms of Resistance\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. “They Just Judge Us by Our Cover”: Students’ Everyday Experiences with Race\u003cb\u003e6. “Breaking the Mindset”: Forms of Resistance and Change\u003cb\u003e7. Processes of Change: Cycles of Reflection, Dialogue, and Implementation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eConclusion: Possibilities and Pitfalls in Any School U.S.A.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eAppendix: Student Participants, Staffulty, and Parents\u003cb\u003eNotes\u003cb\u003eBibliography\u003cb\u003eIndex\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405972316503,"sku":"9780816687404","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816687404.jpg?v=1730494097","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/academic-profiling-9780816687404","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}