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Chicano Education Case Study

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Chicano Educational History: A Legacy of Inequality In 1994, California Governor Pete Wilson and Proposition 187 catalyzed the current anti-immigrant sentiment. They fueled federal legislation aimed at cutting the numbers of both legal and undocumented immigrants and at reducing immigrants' access to social services and society. Often times employers have favored immigrants as a source of cheap labor for an expanding capitalist economy, while significant parts of the population have objected to immigration in general or to the entry of certain groups because of their supposed racial, ethnic and cultural characteristics. The history of the racialized educational theory and its practices from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s, legitimized …show more content…

The historical inquiry into the education of Chicanos becomes more important once it is realized that before the 1960s it was basically nonexist. The segregation of Mexican children in the schools, unlike the case of blacks, was based not on constitutional or state statutes but on school board regulations, customs, and practice. Although language barriers rationale was used to establish the "Mexican" schools, racial antipathy was the underlying motive. Also, the history of the Lemon Grove case is known as the first successful desegregation court case in the United States. There still is little information on the reasons leading to the filing of these cases, on the legal strategies used by Chicano lawyers and on the contextual factors influencing their choices. This article provided really thoughtful background information clearly identifying what is known and what has been studied. Also, giving a very clear indication about where the gaps are, what information is still missing and what is not being talked …show more content…

Thus, bilingual-bicultural programs are seen by Chicano educators as a major breakthrough in the ethnic rigidity of the controlling white supremacy nation whose preference has long been towards a presumed monocultural middle-class American student. In order to understand bilingual-bicultural education properly one has to look at it in the framework of the cultural experiences of the Chicanos. Important to note that chicano experiences may be polarized and reflect different philosophies of education. The evaluation of bilingual-bicultural programs should take into account the expectations of Chicano educators and see program developments from their standpoint. This article is relevant to my paper because it provides a more progressive perspective since it focuses on the social recognition, respect, and self-determination that Chicanos are receiving. The Chicano bilingual bicultural education is still not perfect and is met with resistance, but it is a symbol of intellectual freedom and a promise of a better

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In the textbook “From Indians To Chicanos”, the author’s, James Diego Vigil, purpose for writing this book is to educate about the history of Chicanos, their experiences, and what changed their lifestyle. James Diego Vigil’s objective for this book is to write about the Chicano culture and how it has changed for ethnic minority groups due to time and different geographical and socioeconomic settings. He also addresses how the Chicano experience motivated Chicanos to dedicate themselves to shape their own identity and refuse to accept outside ideas and theories about them, about their identities. Vigil wants to cover on how this culture change resulted by using two concepts, one being the six C’s and the second being how and why many identities

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After reading Miguel and Valencia’s “From the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to Hopwood,” I was shocked to find how Mexican Americans were treated in American students. I was expect poor treatment from our discussions in class as well as other readings, but after reading what the authors reported, including schools failing to address learning issues and pushing kids instead into economic mobility, I am deeply troubled I was not made aware of this sooner. Along with segregation on race basis, I would argue the struggles of Mexican American students was the greatest struggle for education equality in the 20th century, though the struggles gone through by other minorities surely should be discounted or overlooked. I found the role of religious institutions

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Segregation of Mexican Americans from the dominant Anglo race has been around for many years. Since the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Mexican Americans have been treated like a second-class race facing racism and segregation. As a result, segregation in the education system affected Mexican American children. An increasing number of Mexican Americans across California led to an increase of Mexican children enrolling in schools. Author David James Gonzales (2017), explores the degrading school facilities Mexican students were assigned to.

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Even if the Mexican students assimilated through the Americanization classes, like the student Roberto, they were academically profiled as deficient and non-white and casted away to the “New School” based on their race and not on their academic fall backs. Borrowing the words from Ofelia Garcia, “The Spanish language (and bilingualism) in the United States have become markers of being nonwhite, of being out of place, thus minoritizing the position of U.S. Latinos and excluding them” (Garcia, 2009). Anglos in this community were creating a visible divide by using Spanish language as a marker of “otherness” and framing racial stereotypes to this linguistic

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Gloria Anzaldúa, in the essay “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” (1987), claims her experiences as a Chicano taught her that her culture was not looked at highly in comparison to the English language. Anzaldúa argues her view about her Chicano language by giving examples of both cultures Chicano Mexican and American cultures. Anzaldúa’s purpose is to inform her audience on how it is to grow up in a Chicano speaking family. Anzaldúa writes in a frustrating tone throughout the story of her life experiences. Thesis: Anzaldúa use of her personal experiences, and Music, Film and Literature are relevant sufficient and

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In this article, Author Gloria Anzaldua writes about growing up in America as a Mexican-American and the struggles that she faced due to the language barrier. Gloria claims that she grew up around a variety of different forms of both Spanish and English, “Standard English, working class/slang English, standard Spanish, Standard Mexican Spanish, and North Mexican Spanish dialect”, are just a few. The language spoken, or combinations of the languages correlate with where the Hispanic person was originally from and where in the U.S. they are now, for example, “Chicano Spanish” is spoken in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. Another focus of this article is how Gloria would be punished in school for speaking in her native tongue and then at home by her for not speaking English properly. Gloria also felt the university she attended made the Hispanics take two speech classes, “in order to get rid of our accents”, she claims.

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Although this case was pursued by Mexican families, the desegregation of schools actually helped all minorities. The language used to describe the categorization of minority students and the approaches of school segregation are disturbing. The article stated, “The evidence clearly shows,” the opinion states, “that Spanish-Speaking children are retarded in learning English by lack of exposure to its use because of segregation… It is also established by the record that the methods of segregation prevalent in the defendant school districts foster antagonisms in the children and suggest inferiority among them where none exists” (Ruling Gives Mexican Children Equal Rights). Mexicans and other minorities were treated with inferiority by their looks and lack of knowledge as if it was their fault that they were not assimilating into American culture.

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In “Transforming Educational Pathways for Chicana/o Students: A Critical Race Feminist Praxis”, Delgado-Bernal and Aleman confronts institutional racism through an elementary school and college partnership named Aldente. The program’s goals are to prepare students and their families to college by integrating higher education early on and establishing college going culture. The authors discuss the struggles they had to go through to implement this program in a local elementary school such common stereotypes about chicana/o’s in education. In the introduction of this book, the authors mention how one of their partners refused to acknowledge issues such as immigration because she didn’t want to make school political. I understand why some would say that school shouldn’t be political because it would be

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