{"product_id":"we-are-all-equal-bradley-u-levinson-9780822326991","title":"We Are All Equal: Student Culture and Identity at a Mexican Secondary School, 1988-1998","description":"\u003ci\u003eWe Are All Equal\u003c\/i\u003e is the first full-length ethnography of a Mexican secondary school available in English. Bradley A. U. Levinson observes student life at a provincial Mexican junior high, often drawing on poignant and illuminating interviews, to study how the the school's powerful emphasis on equality, solidarity, and group unity dissuades the formation of polarized peer groups and affects students' eventual life trajectories.\u003cbr\u003eExploring how students develop a cultural \"game of equality\" that enables them to identify-across typical class and social boundaries-with their peers, the school, and the nation, Levinson considers such issues as the organizational and discursive resources that students draw on to maintain this culture. He also engages cultural studies, media studies, and globalization theory to examine the impact of television, music, and homelife on the students and thereby better comprehend-and problematize-the educational project of the state. Finding that an ethic of solidarity is sometimes used to condemn students defined as different or uncooperative and that little attention is paid to accommodating the varied backgrounds of the students-including their connection to indigenous, peasant, or working class identities-Levinson reveals that their \"schooled identity\" often collapses in the context of migration to the United States or economic crisis in Mexico. Finally, he extends his study to trace whether the cultural game is reinforced or eroded after graduation as well as its influence relative to the forces of family, traditional gender roles, church, and global youth culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe Are All Equal\u003c\/i\u003e will be of particular interest to educators, sociologists, Latin Americanists, and anthropologists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bradley U. Levinson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 082232699X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822326991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/12\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 6.06w x 1.14d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2001 pg. 194","brand":"Bradley U. Levinson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086968533247,"sku":"9780822326991","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4f67410a-e746-4782-86aa-c7275bb0e6b8.jpg?v=1769097542","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/we-are-all-equal-bradley-u-levinson-9780822326991","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}