What Do You Think, Mr. Ramirez?: The American Revolution in Education

by Geoffrey Galt Harpham

Book Overview

Geoffrey Galt Harpham's book takes its title from a telling anecdote. A few years ago Harpham met a Cuban immigrant on a college campus, who told of arriving, penniless and undocumented, in the 1960s and eventually earning a GED and making his way to a community college. In a literature course one day, the professor asked him, "Mr. Ramirez, what do you think?" The question, said Ramirez, changed his life because "it was the first time anyone...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022648081X
• ISBN13: 9780226480817
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"