The white architects of Mexican American education -- Pernicious deeds : restrictive covenants and schools -- "Obsessed" with segregating Mexican students -- Ramona School and the undereducation of children in La Colonia -- A common cause emerges for Mexican American and Black organizers -- Challenging "a systematic scheme of racial segregation" : Soria v. Oxnard School Board of Trustees.
Summary:
"This book examines a century of segregation in the California town of Oxnard. It focuses on designs for education that reproduced inequity as a routine matter. For Oxnard's white elite there was never a question of whether to segregate Mexicans, and later Blacks, but how to do so effectively and permanently. David G. Garcia explores what the author calls mundane racism--the systematic subordination of minorities enacted as a commonplace way of conducting business within and beyond schools."--Provided by publisher.
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