Brown, Not White - School Integration and the Chicano Movement in Houston (Paperback, New edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Texas A & M University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	University of Houston Series in Mexican American Studies
Release date:	April 2001
First published:	April 2001
Authors:	Guadalupe San Miguel
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	298
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-58544-493-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	1-58544-493-6
Barcode:	9781585444939

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