This is a firsthand portrait of life at Madison High, a prototype public high school. Laurie Olsen spent two-and-a-half years in the Madison High community attending classes and interviewing teachers, administrators, students and parents. Through their stories, the reader discovers the contemporary version of the Americanization of immigrants - a complex process that ultimately requires them to give up their national identities and mother tongues to be accepted in an academic and social world that then, ironically, denies them full participation. Olsen portrays immigrant students as they are "made in America" and begin to see that to become American is to take their place on the "racial map" of the nation.
- ISBN10 1565844009
- ISBN13 9781565844001
- Publish Date 30 January 1998
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 27 January 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint The New Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 276
- Language English