Chicano Education in the Era of Segregation (Al Filo: Mexican American Studies Series)

Chicano Education in the Era of Segregation analyzes the socioeconomic origins of the theory and practice of segregated schooling for Mexican-Americans from 1910 to 1950. Gilbert G. Gonzalez links the various aspects of the segregated school experience, discussing Americanization, testing, tracking, industrial education, and migrant education as parts of a single system designed for the processing of the Mexican child as a source of cheap labor. The movement for integration began slowly, reaching a peak in the 1940s and 1950s. The 1947 Mendez v. Westminster case was the first federal court decision and the first application of the Fourteenth Amendment to overturn segregation based on the “separate but equal” doctrine. This paperback features an extensive new Preface by the author discussing new developments in the history of segregated schooling.

• Subtractive Schooling: U.S.-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring
• Mendez v. Westminster: School Desegregation and Mexican-American Rights (Landmark Law Cases & American Society)
• The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education
• The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935
• Pillars Of Republic (American Century)
• Let All of Them Take Heed: Mexican Americans and the Campaign for Educational Equality in Texas, 1910-1981 (Reville Book)
• Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders
• City Teachers: Teaching and School Reform in Historical Perspective
• Transforming Educational Pathways for Chicana/o Students: A Critical Race Feminista Praxis (Multicultural Education Series)
• Learning to Be Latino: How Colleges Shape Identity Politics (Critical Issues in American Education)