"I won't stay Indian, I'll keep studying" : race, place, and discrimination in a Costa Rican high school /

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Author / Creator:Stocker, Karen.
Imprint:Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2005.
Description:x, 248 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5816293
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ISBN:0870818163 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-241) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : "Mi delito es ser de aqui" : racism and placism in Costa Rican education
  • 1. The husband's anthropologist : positionality of an unwitting and unwilling double agent
  • 2. The founding father : an ethnographic portrait of Santa Rita
  • 3. Ni chicha ni limonada : identity politics in and about the reservation
  • 4. "Aqui son cuatro o cinco que valen la pena" : mechanisms of boundary maintenance
  • 5. "Nada mas de estar usando la logica" : curriculum and teaching methods in SRHS
  • 6. "A que me va a servir esto en la bananera?" : teaching identity and its consequences in the post-high school realm
  • 7. "Para no dar a torcer el brazo" : strategies of student resistance
  • 8. "Cuesta escribir algo de que nadie puede decir nada" : conclusions, applications, implications, and the ethical dilemmas of applied anthropology.