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Mendez V. Westminster by Philippa Strum
Call Number: KF4155 .S77 2010 Reserve Desk
ISBN: 9780700617197
In 1945 Gonzalo and Felcitas Mendez, California farmers, sent their children off to the local school, only to be told that the students would have to attend a separate facility reserved for Mexican Americans. The Mendezes and other similarly aggrieved parents went to federal court to challenge the segregation. Uniquely, they did not claim racial discrimination, since Mexicans were legally considered white, but rather discrimination based on ancestry and supposed language deficiency that denied their children their Fourteenth Amendment rights to equal protection under the law.

Chicanos in Higher Education by Adalberto Aguirre; Ruben O. Martinez; Jonathan D. Fife (Editor, Foreword by); AEHE Staff
Call Number: LC2683.6 .A24 1993
ISBN: 9781878380241
Discusses the context for Chicano education, and the issues affecting Chicano access. Considers the current and future undergraduate experience, enrollment patterns, and career paths of Chicano students. Also looks at dilemmas in academe for Chicano faculty, including institutional stratification.
The Other Struggle for Equal Schools by Ruben Donato
Call Number: LC2683 .D66 1997 Reserve Desk
ISBN: 9780791435205
Countering stereotypes of Mexican Americans as passive recipients of whatever mainstream education deigns to offer, Donato (U. of Colorado, Boulder) presents the less well-known struggles of this second largest US minority group for equality in the schools during the turbulent civil rights era of the 1960s and 1970s. The author illuminates the many ironies of how the "Brownfield," CA community and school officials responded to the large influx of Mexican American students in the context of pre-Brown vs. Board of Educationsegregated schooling, legal reform mandates, debates over bilingual and year- round education, and the aspirations and grassroots activism of a "sleeping giant" minority. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Presumed Alliance by Nicolas C. Vaca
Call Number: E185.615 . V33 2004
ISBN: 9780060522049
Testimonio by F. Arturo Rosales
Call Number: E184 .M5 R638 2000
ISBN: 1558852999
Beginning with the early 1800s and extending up to the modern era, Rosales collects illuminating documents that shed light on the Mexican-American quest for life, liberty, and justice. Documents include petitions, correspondence, government reports, political proclamations, newspaper items, congressional testimony, memoirs, and even international treaties.
Latinos by Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco (Editor); Mariela Páez (Editor); David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Staff (Contribution by)
Call Number: E184.S75 L37 2002
ISBN: 9780520234871
Latinos are the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States and will comprise a quarter of the country's population by mid-century. The process of Latinization, the result of globalization and the biggest migration flow in the history of the Americas, is indeed reshaping the character of the U.S. This landmark book brings together some of the leading scholars now studying the social, cultural, racial, economic, and political changes wrought by the experiences, travails, and fortunes of the Latino population.
After Brown - The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation by Charles T. Clotfelter
Call Number: LC214.2 .C56 2004
ISBN: 9780691119113
Dismantling Desegregation by Gary Orfield; Susan E. Eaton; Harvard Project on School Desegregation
Call Number: LC212.62 .O72 1996
ISBN: 9781565843059
The Shame of the Nation by Jonathan Kozol
Call Number: LC212.62 .K69 2005
ISBN: 9781400052448
Five Miles Away, a World Apart by James E. Ryan
Call Number: KF4155 .R93 2010
ISBN: 9780195327380