Alvarez, Julia.
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent.
New York: Plume, 1992. A warm and witty book that chronicles the Garcia family, political refugees from the Dominican Republic in New York. I would not recommend all the chapters (some have sexual themes not appropiate for middle or high school students).
Armstrong, Thomas.
Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom
. The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Virginia, 1994. Eye opening research on how students learn. A good resource on insstructional modes.
Bilingual Research Journal, NABE, Volume 18:3&4, Summer-Fall 1994. Carlos Ovando:
Insights on Diversity: Reflections of an Involuntary Voluntary Immigration.
Thoughtful assessment of author’s position as an immigrant.
California State Department of Education.
Beyond Language: Social and Cultural Factors in Schooling Language Minority Students. .
California State University, 1986. A primer on the education of students who do not speak English as their first language.
Center for Puertorrican Studies, Hunter College.
Stories to Live By: Continuity and Change in Three Generations of Puerto Rican Women.
1987. Personal stories of women from Puerto Rico now living in the U.S.A.
Center, Vol. IV,No.2, 1992. Rios, Palmira:
Dominican Migration to Puerto Rico.
Pp. 44Ð49. The plight of Dominicans who migrate to Puerto Rico and, eventually, to New York.
Center, Vol. IV, No. 2, 1992. Rodriguez, Luis J. :
Smoke & Ash: A Latino Writer Looks Back at the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising,
pp.8Ð11. Issues of Hispanics and Blacks in civil strife.
Center, Vol. V, No. 1, 1993. Hector Cordero-Guzman:
The Structure of Inequality and the Status of Puerto Rican Youth,
pp. 100Ð115. Daily issues in facing discrimination faced by young peopl of Puertorrican descent in New York.
Center, Vol. II, No.5, 1989. Juan Cartagena:
English Only JAMAS,
pp. 64Ð76. Discussion about the English Only movement, which purpose is to make English the official language of the U.S.A.
Center, Vol. II, No. 6. Andres Torres:
New York in the Year 2000: A Sober Assessment.
, pp.48Ð54. A look towards the future opportunities facing Hispanics in the year 2000.
Collier, Virginia and Carlos Ovando.
Bilingual and ESL Classrooms: Teaching in Multicultural Contexts.
New York: McGraw Hill, 1985. A primer on Bilingual and ESOL education, with educational strategies and program descriptions. Educators point of view.
Crawford, James.
Bilingual Education: History, Politics, Theory and Practice.
Los Angeles: Bilingual Educational Services, 1991. Historical background on bilingual education. A journalist’s point of view.
Fernandez, Ronald.
The Disenchanted Island: Puerto Rico and the United States in the Twentieth Century.
New York: Praeger, 1992. Political realities in the relationship between Puerto Rico and the U.S.A.
Fishman, Joshua and Gary Keller.
Bilingual Education for Hispanic Students in the United States.
New York: Teachers College Press, 1982. Issues facing the education of language minority children.
Galeano, Eduardo.
Open Veins of Latin America
New York: Monthly Review Press. 1973. An account of the influence the U.S.A. has had in its Latin American neighbors. Mostly anti-American in spirit, it provides insight into how U.S. intervention into other countries affairs is viewed from the “other side”.
Nieto, Sonia.
Affirming Diversity
. New York: Longman, 1992. Ms. Nieto makes a case forl speaking other languages and for ethnicity.
Perez-Firmat, Gustavo.
Next Year in Cuba
. New York: Anchor Books, 1995. Account of life in America, after Castro, from a now middle-class, successful college professor point-of-view. It offers insight into the Cuban migration experience and how it differs from other groups.
Pessar, Patrricia.
A Visa For a Dream: Dominicans in the United States.
Boston: Allyn & Bacon. 1996. Study of Dominicans in the island seeking to travel to mainland U.S.A. and their experiences in the New York area.
Rodriguez, Richard.
Hunger of Memory
. New York: Bantam Books, 1982. Account of Richard’s melting into the American pot, how he forgot his native language (Spanish) and his political views against Bilingual education, affirmative action and other liberal causes.
Takaki, Ronald.
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America.
Boston: Little, Brown. 1993.
Santiago, Esmeralda.
When I was Puerto Rican.
New York: Vintage Books, 1993.
Shorris, Earl.
Latinos
. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. 1992.