Sale!

Brown, Not White: School Integration and the Chicano Movement in Houston

Amazon.com Price:  $21.07 (as of 12/04/2019 08:43 PST- Details)

Description

Strikes, boycotts, rallies, negotiations, and litigation marked the efforts of Mexican-origin community members to succeed in educational opportunity and oppose discrimination in Houston schools in the early 1970s. These responses were sparked by the effort of the Houston Independent School District to circumvent a court order for desegregation by classifying Mexican American children as “white” and integrating them with African American children—leaving Anglos in segregated schools. Gaining legal recognition for Mexican Americans as a minority group became the one means for fighting this type of discrimination.

The struggle for legal recognition not only reflected an upsurge in organizing within the community but also generated a shift in consciousness and identity. In Brown, Not White Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr., astutely traces the evolution of the community’s political activism in education right through the Chicano Movement era of the early 1970s.

San Miguel also identifies the vital implications of this struggle for Mexican Americans and for public education. First, he demonstrates, the political mobilization in Houston underscored the emergence of a new form of grassroots ethnic leadership committed to community empowerment and to inclusiveness of diverse ideological interests within the minority community. Second, it signaled a shift in the activist community’s identity from the assimilationist “Mexican American Generation” to the rising Chicano Movement with its “nationalist” ideology. In spite of everything, it introduced Mexican American interests into educational policy making normally and into the national desegregation struggles in particular.

This vital study will engage those interested in public school policy, in addition to scholars of Mexican American history and the history of desegregation in The us.

Home » Shop » Books » Subjects » Arts and Photography » History and Criticism » History » Americas » United States » State and Local » Brown, Not White: School Integration and the Chicano Movement in Houston

Recent Products