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The Unimpressible Race. A Century of Educational Struggle by the Chinese in San Francisco.
Low, Victor – 1982
This book traces the history of the Chinese experience in America, particularly in the San Francisco area, from the California Gold Rush era of the 1850s to the construction of a new all-Chinese school in San Francisco's Chinatown district in the 1950s. The first five chapters of the book detail the withholding of school privileges from both…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingual Education, Chinese Americans, Civil Rights
Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality: A Brief History of the Education of Dominated Cultures in the United States.
Spring, Joel – 1994
This book provides background for understanding contemporary issues and problems in multicultural education by examining the history of education of four dominated groups in the United States: Native Americans, African Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Mexican Americans. The book focuses on three concepts: deculturalization--attempts to strip away the…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, American Indians, Black Education
Indians at Hampton Institute, 1877-1923. Blacks in the New World [Series].
Lindsey, Donal F. – 1995
The Hampton Institute near Williamsburg, Virginia, was founded during Reconstruction as a normal school for the industrial education of Blacks. In 1877, the school began a program to educate American Indians. Although only 1,388 Indian students attended the Institute during its history, it significantly influenced Indian policy and Indian…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, American Indians, Black Education
The Cultural Transformation of a Native American Family and Its Tribe, 1763-1995: A Basket of Apples. Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education.
Spring, Joel – 1996
This book describes the impact of U.S. government social, cultural and educational policies on a Native American family and its tribe--the Choctaw--from 1763 to 1995. The book intertwines a personal quest for family roots in Choctaw tribal history with traditional historical methodology to examine the direct relationship between educational…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, American Indian History, Blacks
The Elusive Quest for Equality: 150 Years of Chicano/Chicana Education. Harvard Educational Review Reprint Series No. 32.
Moreno, Jose F., Ed. – 1999
The year 1998 marked the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War, formalized the appropriation of half of Mexico's territory, and guaranteed Mexican-origin people in the appropriated territory the rights of U.S. citizens. The United States reneged on this promise almost immediately. Public…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Activism, Bilingual Education
Mexican Americans in School: A Decade of Change.
Carter, Thomas P.; Segura, Roberto D. – 1979
Various explanations and possible solutions for the low social status and poor school achievement of the Mexican American are the subject of this book, which examines ethnic characteristics of the Mexican American, socioeconomic conditions in the five southwestern states, and practices and policies of the schools in the Southwest. This book grew…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Bilingual Education, Change Strategies
The Other Struggle for Equal Schools: Mexican Americans during the Civil Rights Era. SUNY Series, the Social Context of Education.
Donato, Ruben – 1997
Challenging conventional wisdom that Mexican Americans were passive victims of their educational fates, this book examines the Mexican American struggle for equal education during the 1960s and 1970s in a California community "Brownfield." It looks at responses of a predominantly White school system and community to the growing number of…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Activism, Bilingual Education, Case Studies