Latino Education in the United States

Winner of a 2005 Critics Choice Award fromThe American Educational Studies Association, this is a groundbreaking collection of oral histories, letters, interviews, and governmental reports related to the history of Latino education in the US. Victoria-María MacDonald examines the intersection of history, Latino culture, and education while simultaneously encouraging undergraduates and graduate students to reexamine their relationship to the world of education and their own histories.

Auteur

VICTORIA-MARÍA MACDONALD is Assistant Professor of History and Philosophy of Education, Department of Educational Foundations and Policy Studies, at Florida State University. She is the author of The Transformation of Schooling in the Urban South, and she is also the coordinator of The History of Hispanic American Education Project.

Contenu

Introduction: Re-Visioning American Educational History PART I: NEW ENCOUNTERS WITH LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND RELIGION Spanish, Indian, and Mexican Learning in North America, 1598-1921 Colonial Era, 1598-1820: Mission Schools, Aristocratic Family Schooling, A Young Woman in Convent School Mexican, Territorial, and Statehood Eras, 1821- 1921 PART II: FORCED ASSIMILATION AND ACCULTURATION, 1880s - 1950s U.S. Educational Imperialism in Puerto Rico and Cuba, Chicano Agency and Struggle in the Early 20th Century Cuba and Puerto Rico: Reflections of a Puerto Rican Youth, 1906 Agency and Voice under Segregation in the Southwest: Rules for Mexican Children in Texas Schools PART III: THE POST-1965 AWAKENING: FROM CIVIL RIGHTS TO THE NEW LATINOS OF THE 21st CENTURY Civil Rights Among Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans The making of a Chicana Feminist Report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights The Cuban and Latin American Diaspora The 1970s and 1980s: Affirmative Action and Bilingual Education New Latinos in the Schools Census 2000: The State of Latinos and Education