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

Name: Brown, Not White School Integration and the Chicano Movement in Houston
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ISBN: 9781585444939

ISBN-10: 1585444936

ISBN-13: 9781585444939

Edition: 2005

Authors: Guadalupe San Miguel

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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…

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List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Publication date: 10/26/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 298
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English