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2005 - The Mexican American Struggle for Equal Educational Opportunity in Mendez v. Westminster: Helping Pave the Way for Brown v. Board of Education

Attribution: Valencia, Richard A.
Researchers: Richard A. Valencia
University Affiliation: UT Austin
Email: richard.valencia@mail.utexas.edu
Research Question:
To remember the importance of the Mendez case in the broader struggle for equal educational opportunity in the U.S..
Published: 1
Journal Name or Institutional Affiliation: Teacher College Record
Journal Entry: Vol. 107, No. 3, pp. 389-423
Year: 2005
Findings:
  • Argues that Mendez as a case that pre-dated CRT literature , embodied the central themes of CRT, making it not on legally significant, but also theoretically and conceptually important to the history of civil rights struggle.
  • Mendez influenced school desegregation jurisprudence in California and the Southwest by framing the discussion within two contexts: a) the sifting nature of civil and human rights in the 1940s; b) integrationist educational theory
Keywords: Brown vs Board of EducationLatinosRegions: NationalMethodologies: QualitativeResearch Designs: Secondary Survey DataAnalysis Methods: Policy Analysis Sampling Frame:National
Sampling Types: NonrandomAnalysis Units: DocumentData Types: Qualitative-Longitudinal
Data Description:
  • Critical race theory (CRT) challenges te experiences of Whites as the normative standard and grounds its conceptual framework in the distinctive experiences of people of color (Taylor, 1988; p.122).
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Archives: K-12 Integration, Desegregation, and Segregation Abstracts
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