Mexican-American Studies Textbook Analysis

Ever since the 1960s, the Texas textbook controversy has had an issue in America. The Texas school board is meeting to make revisions to their textbooks and curriculum. But are they also revising history? Educators across the country are watching to see the effect this issue will have on students. The choices the board members are making will affect politics, religion, monies spent thru-out the Texas school system. Christian conservatives on the state education board want curriculum changes. Parents and student would like the curriculum to remain the same, or not

This book was considered as the most debated U.S. Latino texts. In the book, Rodriguez used his personal experience in discussing social and political issues. Though it is autobiographical in nature, it is a collection of personal experiences that shaped Rodriguez’s understanding of culture, education, and the formal education system in America. Rodriguez tackled the educational system wherein he discussed the change of language in the beginning of a child’s education- Spanish to English. In his book, he provides a thoughtful critique of contemporary education and its shortfalls. He opposed bilingual education and affirmative action. He shared his views on the inequality of educational system and the specific educational needs of minorities in the United States. He used his upbringing and self exploration as a Mexican American, and his extensive schooling to examine contemporary education.

To understand who you are, you have to first understand your origin of where you are from. In the story, “A Fabricated Mexican,” by Rick P. Rivera, it is about a young boy named Ricky Coronado. His mom is a very strong- willed and encouraging mother, and he lost his father when he was still young. So without a father figure there to help him through life he is questioning himself about his life. Which probably lead to why he is so pessimistic and negative.

The United States has always been considered a country of immigrants; immigrants from all the parts of the world have come to America in search of the “American Dream.” In recent years, there has been an increase in immigration coming from Mexico. Mexican immigrants come in search of better opportunities for them and their families. Mexican immigrants come to United States because there are not opportunities of having a good job, or study. There are two types of immigration: legal and illegal. Legal immigration is mostly through the process of obtaining visas as a student or family member of a United States’ citizen or resident. Illegal

Textbooks are still being written for profit, politics, and nationalism. Education boards have been around for centuries and they are the ones who decide what they want their state or nation to recognize as valid history. Modern day education boards are revising textbooks to outline many narrow minded ideas such as in Texas where, “they wanted the texts to establish that the U.S. is a ‘Christian land governed by Christian principles” (The Week), and “ Slavery under the new standards, would no longer be described as America’s original sin, and would become “the Atlantic triangular trade” (The Week), such revisions will strongly affect the views of

While Tovares and Escobar both focus on the discrimination zoot suiters felt, Thomas Guglielmo shifts his focus to Mexican American racism was not only in Los Angeles but also in Texas in his historical article, Fighting for Caucasian Rights. Guglielmo argues that Mexican Americans who were born in the United States showed that they only cared about the United States but needed to be looked at again. They seemed active, focusing on being American, distant from Mexico but really these Mexican American’s due to the Good Neighbor policy still identified themselves with Mexico. Compared to Tovares, Guglielmo looks at American battles in Texas and legislative matter compared to the Los Angeles zoot suit riots. Guglielmo goes against Tovares perspective and

Historically, Latinos have struggled against ethnic labeling, immigration as well challenges surrounding education. This can traced back to mid-19th century when according to Harvest of Empire America’s annexation of Mexico which gave the United States Texas, California, and the southwest. “Mexico’s territory was cut by half and its mineral resources by three-quarters. These appalling numbers help explain so much. In fact, you can arguably lay Mexico’s poverty and loss through emigration right at our doorstep. We got the land. We got the oilfields. So, when you hear talk of a wall at the border know that we also walled off prosperity a century-plus back” (Whittemore, para.1).

The film “Taking Back the Schools” was an extremely great video to give visualizations to issues and struggles that ELLs in America once faced. The video served as a very informational tool for myself, as well as a detterent. Following World War II, Mexican-Americans began to come to the actualization that the current education they were recieving and accepting was inadmissable. It was along this time that the Mexican-American began to analyze what they were being taught in the public school, and deciding that change was desired. Students began to walk out during instruction and speak out about the injustices that were transpiring every day in Americas schools, but in particular students in the Los Angeles County School System. The academic

The issues of immigration and the efforts schools are supposed to provide for the country are looked upon differently in respect to who you are to ask. At the federal level, the government states that every child is allowed to obtain an education. On the other hand, the local state government feels that they are able to vote on issues of denying education for all immigrant children. Throughout this essay, I will look at several schools and districts in the San Diego county area that are dealing with the issues of education for a diverse population, the demographics of the school and neighboring cities they are located and the summarization of whether the school are doing their part to make the transition for newcomer children easier to

Currently, more than half of the public schools are Hispanic so teachers and activists are now demanding schools to teach Mexican American studies. The controversial issue over the newly proposed Mexican American textbook being used in Texas public schools brings up multiple issues in the educational system. Critics call it inaccurate, racist, and ignorant and it should be not released. "There's no way this textbook can be corrected. The errors are so extensive," says Trinidad Gonzales, a history professor at South Texas College (Isensee). The authors of the book can’t even depict the difference between a Mexican and a Chilean. If the State Board of Education has Mexican American studies as a course of study in all Texas public schools, publishers

"Latino Education in Twentieth-Century America: A Brief History." (With Rubén Donato) In Enrique G. Murillo, Jr., Sofia A. Villenas, Ruth Trinidad Galván, Juan Sánchez Munoz, Corinne Martínez, and Margarita Machado-Casas, Eds., Handbook of Latinos and Education: Theory, Research, and

It’s because that every so often people go across without asking. This is called illegal immigration it usually occurs when people in poor countries try to immigrate but don’t have enough money. But the bad thing is people think that all Mexican immigrants are illegal.

The state of Texas is known for its iron fist in law making and education reform has not been dealt a decent hand in recent years. In the 1990s, prominent Texas business man Ross Perot was behind what can be called one of the most controversial education reforms. Perot asserted that running schools like private businesses would permit officials to hold teachers and principals accountable for student’s test scores. Perot also believed that this would allow tax payers to see firsthand effects of their tax dollars at work. But the question educators, parents, and some experts are troubled by: are children exposed to excessive testing in Texas schools? Many of the reasons

For this research paper, I chose to study the country of Mexico because I felt as if there would be a wide variety of readily available research to search through, and because there is currently a lot of controversy in our country about Mexican immigrants. After looking through the previous research, I discovered that a majority of the immigrants from Mexico migrated here for work related reasons, as well as to increase their chance for a better education than they would have received in Mexico. I also chose to research the migration of Mexican people because of the amount of backlash that I see them receive in our culture and media.

Concept number one that defines the objective of the article is populism because it attempts to unite poor whites and poor blacks to gain control over elite. For example, as it said that history is written by the victors especially in Latino history in Texas, “Texas high school students is filled with inaccuracies and stereotypes about Mexican Americans”. In setting the history correct, a coalition of educators opposing the publication of the textbook Texas Board of Education member Ruben Cortez Jr supports the fact of the matter of populism element of the coalition of Latino for the backlash for the book with Ruben Cortez Jr, “I not believe that have confidence in this book should see the inside of any classroom in any shape, form, or fashion”. Further the coalition of to unite poor whites and poor blacks’ parents, activists and educators take to social media to spread