The Struggle of Latino/Latina University Students : In Search of a Liberating Education

Based on a three-year ethnographic study of a class on the sociology of Latino/a society, this book tells the story of how the students navigated academic life in a predominantly white university to construct their own education. Padilla weaves together journal entries, his own experiences in education, cultural analysis, and theory to create a ric Willie Colon is a famous, world renowned Puerto Rican Salsa singer from New York City who has maintained a never compromising, radical, oppositional voice for thirty years.