- Reviews the legal arguments and litigation strategies used by Mexican American lawyers in school desegregation lawsuits.
- Mexicans were legally classified as whites and litigation involved defending their whiteness in cases of discrimination.
- Mexican children were segregated based on language.
- Lawyers argued that it was a violation of due process instead of a violation of equal protection.
- Mexican-American lawyers did not utilize the Brown decision.
- Wilson argues that this was a dead end strategy. In the Cisneros v. Corpus Christi case the defense finally appealed to Brown and Mexicans were found to be an identifiable ethnic minority that had been denied equal protection.