Multicultural Project Bibliography

Back in the 1950s, Mexican Americans did not have the courage to stand up and fight for their rights because they were afraid of the outcome and the problems this could have caused. They had to live with the burden of discrimination every day, mainly in the Southwest. Mexican Americans were considered invisible and uneducated. However, when the case Hernandez v. Texas occurred, a very courageous lawyer, Gustavo ‘Gus’ Garcia, along with other lawyers, took this opportunity to stand up for their civil rights.

In Hunger of Memory, Richard Rodriguez situates his individual experiences with education in such a way as to expose what he sees as the fallacious logic behind bilingual education and affirmative action. He uses arguments to propagate the systematic problems with such programs. His autobiography explains in great detail the entangling problems all American children face by instituting bilingual programs and affirmative action endorsements.

Deaf Like Me is a story compiled together by Thomas and James Spradley. It is a compelling story about two hearing+ parents struggling to cope with their daughters overwhelming deafness. This powerful story expresses with simplicity the love, hope, and anxieties of all hearing parents of deaf children. In the epilogue, Lynn Spradley, herself, now a teenager thinks back about different times in her life growing up deaf. She reflects upon her education, her struggle to communicate, and the discovery that she was the inspiration and the main focus of her father's and uncle's book collaboration. Deaf Like Me is a

Guideline 1: Psychologists are encouraged to recognize that, as cultural beings, they may hold attitudes and beliefs that can detrimentally influence their perceptions of and interactions with individuals who are ethnically and racially different from themselves (American Psychological Association, 2003). I agree that psychologist can hold many different beliefs concerning others. The beliefs can sometimes hinder a person from growing emotionally, and cognitively. In my opinion it is important for the professional to be familiar with the diversity that may exist in their patients and remain professional in their

Gloria Anzaldua’s article “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” focuses on the discrimination against Latin American individuals, who are residents or citizens, of the United States. Gloria Anzaldua empathizes the bullying in schools and in her daily life. Despite all the bullying and discrimination she had to put up with, Gloria stands up for herself and fights for her culture and origins. She chooses to love herself for who she is, which allowed her to put those ugly comments and actions aside to grow into the person she is today. Amy Tan’s article “Mother Tongue,” also focuses on the discrimination against her efforts to speak and write English. Amy Tan emphasizes the topics of standardized testing and discrimination within schools that go

In recent years, the Arizona education department has been under fire after the Arizona legislature passed a law banning Mexican-American studies in schools (Planas, 2015, p. 1). Not only have the schools in Arizona suffered from this discriminatory law, but also the advancement of Mexican-American students. This essay will briefly go over the Tucson Unified School District, the district in the midst of the controversy, and will mainly focus on Pueblo Magnet High School, one of the schools in the Tucson Unified School District that was greatly affected by the ethnic studies law.

In the week's reading it offered a unique perspective education of segregated school by the percentage of black and hispanic students. The arguments that can be mafe about the myth of educations and empowerment in the reading "Still Separate, Still Unequal" by Jonathan Kozol, is still being affected by funds. The author speaks about statistics present the overpopulated schools are filled with minorities. "Whether the issue is inequity alone or deepening resegregation or the labyrinthine intertwining of the two, it is well past the time for us to start the work that it will take to change this." "We do not have the things you have," Alliyah told me when she wrote to ask if I would come and visit her school in the South Bronx. "Can you help us?"

194). This is how Latino American felt when they attended public schools in America. This is why I believe African American and Latinos when through similar problem with American Public schools. They both had to go through segregation and figure out how to live in a cruel world. There weren’t that much difference between these two groups but one of them would be that African American had to face the world outside of school more than Latinos did. There were riots due to African Americans in white schools so they had to go through a little more. One of the groups that helped African American achieve equal education were the people that took part of Little Rock. There were nine kids selected to go to a white public school and manage to survive and get a good education. They were called bad names and even got spit on according to (Clark, p.289) but this one girl called daisy Bates made a difference because she went to that school and showed courage and one day a white girl helped her to the bus and sat next to her and that’s when she knew that there was hope in this world. Another person that was a huge part to fight for equal education opportunity was Septima

The novel Deafening offers a perspective of a deaf person and the way they construct meaning of their environment. The initial chapter introduces a young girl, Grania. She lost her hearing due to scarlet fever. Since Grania, was born hearing, she maintains the memory of phonological awareness. More specifically, she understands what the reader understands; the reality of the auditory world. This allows the reader entrance into Grania’ current reality.

Based upon this, it is evident that other racial groups have a feeling of ethnocentrism towards Mexican Americans. Evidence of this is presented when the article states “Mexican Americans have been racialized throughout U.S. history and this limits their participation in society.” The discrimination and racial stereotyping of Mexican-Americans is further supported when the article discusses the educational inequality that has been experienced across multiple generations of Mexican American families living in the United States. This is evident when the article states, “school segregation has been extensive, both historically and in contemporary periods. Throughout history, Mexican children were sent to separate and inferior schools.” The article also continues on to mention that school segregation was repeatedly challenged in the

The Mendez v Westminster case of 1946 ultimately attempted to create an education system that strived to promote success for children of Mexican descent by desegregating the public schools in California. Racist individuals dominated society by supporting these segregated schools which lacked a full staff and satisfactory teaching materials, thus inhibiting Latino youth from attaining a noteworthy educational experience. A photograph of Hoover Elementary, a “Mexican” school, found in the Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections shows the horrible

Cece Bell’s El Deafo (2014) is a graphic novel written from the author’s personal experience in elementary school. The main character Cece has to maneuver her way through making friends while getting used to her hearing aid. The book describes her difficulties trying to adjust to her disability and trying to interact with her peers. This creative autobiography illustrates the problems she experienced trying to adapt and create friendships. The format of Bell’s book contains sequential art which combines text, panels, and images (Brenner, 2006).

The book list will help teacher with what they need to base their lesson around. For an example if it Black History Month, the teacher can easily pull out her multicultural book list and look up famous African Americans. She could even have different groups that will read different multicultural book, and all should will have to do is go the book list and pick out how many she needs. Multicultural book list is not just a list of books, it’s also combine with teacher resources. Such as maps, movies, games, and many more resources to help build a lesson for diverse learners. While having diverse learners you will have to know how to teach them. I feel diverse students learn better when their cultural is being involve, that’s when the multicultural

The story begins with Margaret, a young girl living with her Deaf parents and hearing brother. Her brother dies at a young age, leaving her parents with only their daughter to help them communicate verbally with the hearing world. As Margaret grows up, she notices their distrust and weariness of hearing people and that without her, they don’t have an easy way to communicate. She feels pressure and responsibility to take care of them and to be their ears in the world. Margaret doesn’t like feeling “different” because of the fact she knows sign and her parents are Deaf, so she doesn’t have many friends and only signs at home. When she meets and marries a hearing man named William, she is torn between helping her parents communicate with hearing people and being with him. Her parents struggle to adjust and accept Margaret’s new life with William, especially when she moves away and they don’t have a translator.

When introducing oneself to a new person, they will usually start out with a simple “hello.” This hello opens a door leading to new opportunities for connections that would benefit the person with their social life, business life, or just life in general. But often, many of these doors are often kept closed before they even have the chance to open simply because the “hello” is in different language. But through bilingualism, the ability to speak two languages, doors that were once closed are able to be opened again. Although bilingualism presents one such benefit, it also contains many controversial subjects involving government, education, and the lives of many bilinguals. Both Martin Espada, a political poet and previous tenant lawyer, and Richard Rodriguez, child of an immigrant and award-winning author, discuss these issues in their two essays “The New Bathroom Policy at English High School” and “Hunger of Memory”. While Espada approaches bilingualism from the viewpoint of a bilingual person in the community, Rodriguez approaches the subject from the viewpoint of a child forced to learn the language and become bilingual.