School Integration and the Chicano Movement in Houston.
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Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
College Station :
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Texas A & M University Press
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Oct. 2005 ;
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource
SERIES
Series Title
University of Houston Series in Mexican American Studies ;
Volume Designation
No. 3
CONTENTS NOTE
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Illustrations -- Tables -- Preface -- Diversification and Differentiation in the History of the Mexican-Origin Community in Houston -- Providing for the Schooling of Mexican Children -- Community Activism and Identity in Houston -- The Community Is Beginning to Rumble -- Pawns, Puppets, and Scapegoats -- Rain of Fury -- All Hell Broke Loose -- Simple Justice -- Continuing the Struggle -- The Most Racist Plan Yet -- A Racist Bunch of Anglos -- Reflections on Identity, School Reform, and the Chicano Movement -- Notes -- Index.
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Strikes, boycotts, rallies, negotiations, and litigation marked the efforts of Mexican-origin community members to achieve educational opportunities and oppose discrimination in Houston schools in the early 1970s. The Houston Independent School District sparked these responses because it circumvented a court order to desegregate by classifying Mexican American children as "white" and integrating them with African American children--leaving Anglos in segregated schools. In Brown, Not White Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr., traces the evolution of the community's political activism in education during the Chicano Movement era of the early 1970s. San Miguel also identifies the important implications of this struggle for Mexican Americans and for public education. The political mobilization in Houston signaled a shift in the activist community's identity from the assimilationist "Mexican American Generation" to the rising Chicano Movement with its "nationalist" ideology. It also introduced Mexican American interests into educational policy making in general and into the national desegregation struggles in particular. This important study will engage those interested in public school policy as well as scholars of Mexican American history and the history of desegregation in America.
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1585444936
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Discrimination In Education.
Mexican Americans.
School Integration.
Texas-- History.
HISTORY.
United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX).