On Separate Paths
The Mexican American and African American Legal Campaigns against School Segregation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11366407 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeanne M Powers (0000-0001-5197-6546, Arizona State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 121 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 29-55 |
| Publication date | 2014-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0195-6744 • E-ISSN: 1549-6511 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/678124 |
| OpenAlex | W2029604053 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 43 |
Brown v. Board of Education (1954) was a landmark decision that was the result of decades of efforts by grassroots activists and civil rights organizations to end legalized segregation. A less well-known effort challenged the extralegal segregation of Mexican American students in the Southwest. I combine original research and research synthesis to explore the connections between these legal campaigns. Three key differences between African American and Mexican American segregation had important implications for the legal strategies in the latter: (a) de jure versus extralegal segregation; (b) the legal whiteness of Mexican Americans; and (c) the racialization of language. While both sets of lawsuits drew on social science research to challenge segregation, differences in timing and legal arguments seem to have prevented sustained connections between the two efforts
African american · Civil rights · Criminology · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Grassroots · Mexican americans · Political science · Politics · Racial bias · Racialization · Racism · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Education Discipline and Inequality · Law · School Choice and Performance
White by Law
The Naacp's Legal Strategy against Segregated Education, 1925-1950
The Miner’s Canary
Whiteness as Property
Bridges of reform
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
The Color of America Has Changed
Racial Fault Lines
The Struggle in Black and Brown
The Miner’s Canary
From Jim Crow To Civil Rights
Race and Manifest Destiny
Mendez v. Westminster School District
Between Mendez and Brown
Separate But Equal? A Case Study of Romo v. Laird and Mexican American Education
Brown over “Other White”
Another White Race
Chicano Students and the Courts
Simple Justice
From Intellectual Deficiency to Cultural Deficiency
Race and Manifest Destiny
George I. Sánchez, Ideology, and Whiteness in the Making of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, 1930-1960
Fighting for Caucasian Rights
Walls and Mirrors
Defining America’s Racial Boundaries
Miscegenation Law, Court Cases, and Ideologies of "Race" in Twentieth-Century America
The Cosmic Race in Texas
Looking for Race in All the Wrong Places
From Extralegal Segregation to Anti-immigrant Policy
Brown Is Beautiful
Listening for Stories in All the Right Places
The Present Status of the Negro Separate School as Defined by Court Decisions
An Evaluation of Recent Efforts to Achieve Racial Integration in Education Through Resort to the Courts
The Effects of Segregation and the Consequences of Desegregation
All Deliberate Speed
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |