ES 323 Study Guide - Final Guide: Institutional Racism, Bilingual Education, Cognitive Dissonance
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What are the political and sociological issues he tackles, bilingual education i. Against it - spanish is meant for intimate private life & english should be for public education life: affirmative action i. Rodriguez opens this essay by explaining that he has been the beneficiary of affirmative action: policy arose in the late 1960s, as a result of agitation by nonwhite. Americans to gain more equal access to higher education: he declares that he was wrong to have accepted the label of. For me there is no way to say [ minority student"] with grace. I say it rather with irony sharpened by self-pity. I say it with anger. : he recalls the first time he saw the phrase minority student : in a college literature class, his professor returned a paper rodriguez had written with the comment, Maybe the reason you feel dickens"s sense of alienation so acutely is because you are a minority student i. ii.
