Amelia Luisa Martinez, a young girl from a migrant worker family, discovers a special tree that symbolizes her desire for a permanent home, away from the meandering roads that lead to work in the fields.

Driving Nuyorican poet’s collection explores the ethnic experience in the U.S.

In Tato Laviera’s third collection, poems celebrate the array of stripes and colors making up the American people. In the beginning section, "Ethnic Tributes," Laviera crafts poems with titles like, "arab", "black," "chinese," "greek," "jamaican," "spanish," " and "mundo-world." In "Boricua," he fashions a timely plea for an end to prejudice, saying that for Puerto Ricans "... color is generally color blind/with us, that’s our contribution, all/the colors are tied/to our one."

The latter two sections of the collection, "Values" and "Politics" build on the themes of ethnic exchange and the place of the boriqueño in that greater scheme. In "commonwealth," Laviera writes of these tensions. "I’m still in the commonwealth/stage of my life, not knowing/which ideology to select."

Explains and illustrates dialogic teacher research with immigrant and refugee families—which encompasses methods that are at once ethnographic, participatory, and narrative. Engages teacher-researchers and participants in dialogues that shed light on economic, political, social, and cultural relationships and provides examples of how dialogic teacher research can inspire changes in teaching, curriculum, and school-community relations. Intended for researchers, teachers, and students in the areas of educational foundations; second-language, multicultural, and comparative educational language and culture; qualitative research.

American Heritage® Picture Dictionary
900 age-appropriate entry words. Engaging illustrations. Colorful new art and an alphabet feature page. For preschoolers and young children. Hardbound. 144 pages.

Modern American Indian life is urban, rural, and everything in-between. Lobo and Peters have compiled an unprecedented collection of innovative scholarship, stunning art, poetry, and prose that documents American Indian experiences of urban life. A pervasive rural/urban dichotomy still shapes the popular and scholarly perceptions of Native Americans, but this is a false expression of a complex and constantly changing reality. When viewed from the Native perspectives, our concepts of urbanity and approaches to American Indian studies are necessarily transformed. Courses in Native American studies, ethnic studies, anthropology, and urban studies must be in step with contemporary Indian realities, and American Indians and the Urban Experience will be an absolutely essential text for instructors. This powerful combination of path-breaking scholarship and visual and literary arts-from poetry and photography to rap and graffiti-will be enjoyed by students, scholars, and a general audience.

Twenty-four-year-old Asma Hassan calls herself "a Muslim feminist cowgirl" (she was raised in Pueblo, Colorado). Convinced that Muslim Americans are "the victims of mistaken identity" ("our fellow citizens think all Muslims are terrorists and women-oppressors"), Hassan breaks through the stereotypes and generalizations to talk about the religion and the believers she knows from the inside. While the book packs a lot of basic information about Islam in America - the major tenets, the different sects ("like Baptist Christians and Catholic Christians"), the various ethnic groups, including African Americans - the major emphasis is on the sheer normalcy of American Muslims. Like other Americans, they are very keen on family values, religious freedom, and the opportunities the U.S. has always afforded new immigrants. Moreover, says Hassan, American Islam, as it grows and evolves, will offer a model to Islam in the rest of the world: a purer Islam, one more conscious of the difference between the essence of Islam and its accommodations to various cultures over time.

Turns downtime into learning time Develops critical-thinking skills and sharpens students' reasoning ability Improves understanding of relationships between words and ideas Helps prepare students for national and state standardized tests

In Angels Ride Bikes, Francisco Alarcn invites readers to experience autumn in Los Angeles, where dreams can come true. In the poet's imagination, mariachis play like angels, angels ride bikes, and the earth dances the cha-cha. In this bilingual edition, the images and the poems bring to life the people and places from Alarcn's childhood.

When two popular students begin to date, they're surprised by the unexpected reactions of friends to their interrracial relationship.

Cinduri has a lot of work to do. Every day she walks to the lake to fetch drinking water, milks the cow, cleans the house, prepares the meals, cleans the animal pens, and sells vegetables. Her stepmother and stepsister, however, don’t do any of the work. They just order Cinduri about and give her a bowl of rice and a few leftovers to eat.

The lake, however, is full of magic. When Godfather Snake hears of Cinduri’s troubles, he vows to make her life easier. And when the Prince comes to visit the village during the annual Navaratri Festival, Godfather Snake makes it possible for her to go, dressed in the most beautiful gold-threaded sari and sparkling diamond anklets. It is there that she wins the heart of the Prince.

Adapted from the East Indian story "Nagami" (Jewel of the Snake), this version of the tale is rich with the traditions and culture of India while also conveying the universal values of the Cinderella story. Beautiful watercolor depictions of Indian life and styles accompany this introduction to Indian folklore.