Author: Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo M.
Title: Central American Refugees and U.S. High Schools: A Psychosocial Study of Motivation and Achievement
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1989). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xvi, 182 pp.. Textual tables. Minor rubbing, VG. In a lightly soiled dustwrapper. Dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Introduction; Hispanics in the United States; Escape to Freedom: Political Violence & Economic Scarcity in Central America; Parental Sacrifice; Here & There: The Immigrant's Dual frame of Reference; " Becoming Somebody": The Anatomy of Achievement Among the New Immigrant Hispanics; Nurturance & the Pursuit of a Dream; Reality & the Dream in the Inner City: The Legal Ceiling & Other Barriers; Hermes in the Barrios: A Psychocultural Critique of Motivation Theory; Appendix: Responses to Selected TAT Cards.

Keywords: Sociology of Education, Hispanic Immigrants, Immigrant Hispanics, America Immigration, Minority Minorities, Central American, United States, High School Social, Motivation Theory