Commentary: The History of Education for the Next America

Autor/in	Anderson, James
Titel	Commentary: The History of Education for the Next America
Quelle	In: American Educational Research Journal, 54 (2017) 1, S.75 (3 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0002-8312
DOI	10.3102/0002831216679885
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Equal Education; School Segregation; Mexican Americans; Mexicans; Racial Bias; Hispanic American Students; United States History; Minority Group Students; Kansas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hispanoamerikaner; Mexikaner; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Student; Students; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin
Abstract	The Centennial article by Ruben Donato and Jarrod Hanson demonstrates the critical importance of writing the history of America's variegated ethnicity not only for a comprehensive understanding of the past but also to inform future struggles to overturn segregation and inequality in America's schools (see e.g., Ball, 2006). Donato and Hanson portray a quasi-legal, largely de facto tri-racial stratification system in Kansas designed mainly to accommodate White civic interest in segregating Mexican students. The authors do an excellent job of uncovering the nuanced, contradictory, and customary ways in which various cities within Kansas arranged to segregate Mexican students in segregated schools. They also demonstrate the international context in which Mexican segregation unfolded; Mexican nationals with children in Kansas's schools frequently contacted their consul to protest the assignment of their children to separate and unequal schools and classrooms. In vital respects, the segregation of Mexicans in Kansas represents segregation through institutionalized racism in contradiction to the legally mandated system that characterized the segregation of African American children. Hence, this history informs current and future struggles for education equality as school segregation and inequality in today's America is based squarely on institutional racism. Donato and Hansen's historical analysis enables us to comprehend segregation and resistance from an angle of vision that is uniquely Mexican. [This article offers a commentary on ""In These Towns, Mexicans Are Classified as Negroes": The Politics of Unofficial Segregation in the Kansas Public Schools, 1915-1935" (EJ1155344).] (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01