Racial Uncertainties Mexican Americans, School Desegregation, and the Making of Race in Post-Civil Rights America.

Racial Uncertainties Mexican Americans, School Desegregation, and the Making of Race in Post-Civil Rights America.

Mexican American racial uncertainty has long been a defining feature of US racial understanding. Were Mexican Americans white or nonwhite? In the post-civil rights period, this racial uncertainty took on new meaning as the courts, the federal bureaucracy, local school officials, parents, and communi...

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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Olden, Danielle R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2022.
Series:American Crossroads Ser.
Subjects:
Mexican Americans > Civil rights > Colorado > Denver.
Mexican Americans > Education > Colorado > Denver.
Racism in education > Colorado > Denver.
Racism > Colorado > Denver.
Segregation in education > Colorado > Denver.
Mexican Americans > Civil rights.
Mexican Americans > Education.
Racism.
Racism in education.
Segregation in education.
Colorado > Denver.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. (Un)making Mexican American Racial Identity, 1848-1964
  • 2. Racial Migrations: The Mile High City in Transition, 1945-1969
  • 3. Public Schools in Denver's Racialized Urban Geography
  • 4. Becoming Minority under the Law
  • 5. "Not White, Yet Not, in the Old-Style Parlance, 'Colored' "
  • 6. "American," Not "Minority": Mexican Americans and Colorblindness
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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