The "Other White": Mexican Americans and the Impotency of Whiteness in the Segregation and Desegregation of Texan Public Schools

Autor/in	Godfrey, Phoebe C.
Titel	The "Other White": Mexican Americans and the Impotency of Whiteness in the Segregation and Desegregation of Texan Public Schools
Quelle	In: Equity & Excellence in Education, 41 (2008) 2, S.247-261 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1066-5684
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Public Schools; Mexican Americans; School Segregation; Classification; Hispanic Americans; Whites; Educational History; Correlation; Social Influences; Social Status; Political Issues; Minority Groups; Racial Factors; Educational Quality; Equal Education; Court Litigation; Mexicans; Texas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Hispanoamerikaner; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Hispanic; White; Weißer; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Korrelation; Sozialer Einfluss; Sozialer Status; Politischer Faktor; Ethnische Minderheit; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Rechtsstreit; Mexikaner
Abstract	This article analyzes the legal classification of Mexican Americans as "other white" as argued in a number of critical court cases that beginning in the 1930s up to the 1970s attempted to desegregate public schools in Texas. Since the Texas constitution declared school segregation as being only for "colored children," Mexican Americans in their fight against "de facto" segregation sought to claim their legal classification as white. My objective is to further analyze these cases as presented in the literature in order to examine what the relationship between Mexican American whiteness as a "legal" category versus their "otherness" as a "social" category says about the vital role of public schools in reproducing, as well as creating, social, political, and economic marginalization. (Contains 7 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10