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The other struggle for equal schools : Mexican Americans during the Civil Rights era
- Title
- The other struggle for equal schools : Mexican Americans during the Civil Rights era / Rubén Donato.
- Author
- Donato, Rubén, 1955-
- Publication
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©1997.
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Details
- Description
- x, 210 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Contrary to popular belief that the struggle for educational opportunity during the civil rights era was waged exclusively by African Americans, this fascinating book shows that the Mexican American population challenged discriminatory educational practice more than was portrayed by the media. Examining the Mexican American struggle for equal education during the 1960s and 1970s in the Southwest in general and in a California community in particular, Donato challenges conventional wisdom that Mexican Americans were passive victims, accepting their educational fates. He looks at how Mexican American parents confronted the relative tranquility of school governance, how educators responded to increasing numbers of Mexican Americans in schools, how school officials viewed problems faced by Mexican American children, and why educators chose specific remedies. Finally, he examines how federal, state, and local educational policies corresponded with the desires of the Mexican American community.
- Series Statement
- SUNY series, the social context of education
- Uniform Title
- SUNY series, social context of education.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Mexican Americans > Education > History > 20th century
- Children of migrant laborers > Education > History > United States > 20th century
- School integration > United States > History > 20th century
- Children of migrant laborers > Education
- Mexican Americans > Education
- School integration
- Bürgerrechtsbewegung
- Chicanos
- Schule
- Schule
- United States
- Chicanos
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-201) and index.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Schooling in the pre-Brown era -- 2. Evolution of a community and the making of a school district -- 3. Emergence of grassroots activism -- 4. The irony of year-round education -- 5. Mandated bilingual education comes to town -- 6. Self-interest and compliance in the desegregation process -- 7. Summary and conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
- ISBN
- 0791435199
- 9780791435199
- 0791435202
- 9780791435205
- LCCN
- 97013021
- OCLC
- ocm36647950
- 36647950
- SCSB-8920984
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library