Latino Education in the United States A Narrated History from 15132000 [Hardcover]

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-Mar?a 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.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

Latino Education in U.S. History is in a class by itself. No other publication in the field of Latino education to date covers such much ground, addresses some many key themes, and is so representative of regional and group issues. MacDonald should be commended for providing a broad sample of documents - letters, manifestos, reports, legal briefs, fiction, photographs, and newspaper clippings - and a solid chronological andlÓ"