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San Miguel, Guadalupe, Jr. – 2001
In the early 1970s, thousands of Mexican-origin students, parents, and community members participated in legal and political actions against the Houston public schools. Their actions were sparked by the school district's effort in 1970 to circumvent a desegregation court order by classifying Mexican American children as "white,"…
Descriptors: Activism, Community Organizations, Court Litigation, Educational History
Peer reviewedRosales, F. Arturo – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 1985
Analyzes the evolution of Mexican American identity in Houston's Chicano community. Describes immigrants' emphasis on community pride in "mexicanismo" and Mestizo-Indian heritage, abandonment of indigenous identity and demands for White status in 1930s and 1940s, and identification with racial minorities during the civil rights movement.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Study, Ethnic Studies, Ethnicity
