The white architects of Mexican American education -- "Strictly in the capacity of servant" : interconnections between school and residential segregation -- "Obsessed" with segregation : designing a legacy of educational inequality -- The containment and undereducation of colonia children -- "Racial tension is nearing a boiling point" : school desegregation emerges as a common cause for Mexican and black communities -- Challenging "a systematic scheme of racial segregation" : Soria v. Oxnard School Board of Trustees
Summary
"Strategies of Segregation unearths the ideological and structural architecture of enduring racial inequality within and beyond schools in Oxnard, California. In this meticulously researched narrative spanning from 1903 to 1974, David G. García excavates an extensive array of archival sources to expose a separate and unequal school system and its purposeful links with racially restrictive housing covenants. He recovers powerful oral accounts of Mexican Americans and African Americans who endured disparate treatment and protested discrimination. His analysis is skillfully woven into a compelling narrative that culminates in an examination of one of the nation's first desegregation cases filed jointly by Mexican American and Black plaintiffs. This transdisciplinary history advances our understanding of racism and community resistance across time and place."--Provided by publisher
Analysis
1903 to 1947
african americans
archival sources
california
community resistance
disparate treatment
first desegregation cases
mexican american and black plaintiffs
mexican americans
oxnard
protested discrimination
racial inequality
racially restrictive housing covenants
racism
transdiciplinary history
unequal school system
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-256) and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 09, 2018)