Mexicans and Hispanos in Colorado schools and communities, 1920-1960 / Ruben Donato.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donato, Rubén, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--Education--Colorado--History--20th century.

Mexican Americans.

Children of migrant laborers--Education--Colorado--History--20th century.

Children of migrant laborers.

Mexican Americans--Employment--Colorado--History--20th century.

Mexican Americans--Colorado--Social conditions--20th century.

Sugar beet industry--Colorado--History--20th century.

Sugar beet industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the 2007 Critics' Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies AssociationUntil now, much of what has been written about Mexican American educational history has focused on California and Texas, while Colorado's story has remained largely untold. Rubén Donato recounts the social and educational history of Mexicans and Hispanos (descendents of Spanish troops who came to the region in the late 1500s) in Colorado from 1920 to 1960. He examines both groups' experiences in sugar beet towns, the experiences of Hispanos in Anglo American–controlled towns, and the Hispano experience in a historically Hispano-controlled town. Donato argues that whoever possessed power at the local level determined who ran the schools, who administered them, who taught in them, who succeeded in them, and what sorts of social and academic environments were created.

Contents:

Thomas F. Mahony's "Mexican Welfare Committee"

Needed but unwanted

The Klan, the Depression, and intergroup relations

Sugar beets, segregation, and schools

Strangers within

"No one here to put us down".

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-170) and index.

ISBN:

9780791480694

0791480690

9781429471275

1429471271

OCLC:

137534072