In our February 2021 edition of IberoAztlan, Dr. Blandina Cardenas alluded to her public education at San Felipe ISD. In 1971, San Felipe would be forced to merge with Del Rio ISD in one of the many cases litigated under the U.S. v. Texas desegregation cases. Dr. Cardenas also briefly referred to the 1930 Salvatierra …
Author: Prewitt, Steven W. Publish Date: 2001-02-00 Pub Type: Historical Materials (060) — Speeches/Meeting papers (150) Descriptors: Court Litigation; *Disadvantaged Schools; Educational Finance; Educational History; Elementary Secondary Education; Limited English Speaking; *Mexican American Education; Poverty; School District Autonomy; School District Wealth; *School Districts; School Effectiveness; School Segregation; State Aid Credit: The were “Happy to Rock …
Genuine calm and a child-like mischievous chuckle obscure an underlying intensity in one of the most elder of the scholar-activists of the Texas Chicana/o movement. Mario Compean remains as genuinely optimistic as when I first heard him speak to a group in November 1968. A group of dejected Mexican American parents had just learned that …
Mario Compean: A Durable Champion of the Texas Chicana/o Movement Read More »
The trajectory of advocacy for adoption of Chicana/o (Mexican American) studies has been a lengthy one, but hardly consistent. Commencing with the Plan de Santa Barbara (California, 1968), chicana/o studies was perceived by its advocates as a long-term strategy which called for a holistic response to the dismal engagement in higher education by Mexican Americans. …
An Elective Mexican American history course at Texas high schools – the beginning? Read More »
Upon graduating from the University of Texas at Austin in 1950, Jesse Trevino would spend three years in the U.S. Army prior to returning to his hometown of Alice, Texas, to teach school for one year. He would marry soon thereafter and he and his new bride, Mary Lou, would end up in McAllen, Texas. …
Angry Tias and Abuelas Emerges It was June of 2018, and the grapevine was going wild. Friends, neighbors, social media were all telling us there was a problem on the Reynosa-Hidalgo international bridge (just south of McAllen, Texas). Several local Rio Grande Valley women rushed to the bridge to see what was happening and how …
Immigration up close and personal in the Rio Grande Valley – Tias and Abuelas respond Read More »
There is inevitably an emotional risk that comes with empathy, when empathy means to truly understand and share the circumstances or feelings of another. Anyone can engage in a selfless contemplation of empathy. Sunday mass, for instance, may help with some versions of pious contemplation. There, placing oneself in the proverbial shoes of one facing …
November 11, 2020, marks one of the saddest days of my life. We lost a legend on that day: Dr. Juan Gómez-Quiñones. We lost both a friend and scholar. Dr. Gómez-Quiñones was truly one of the greatest intellectuals in the Americas, and throughout the world. For over fifty years, through his scholarship, community involvement, political …
In Memoriam: The Legendary Dr. Juan Gómez-Quiñones: Chicano Scholar, Activist and Poet Read More »
During February, 2021, the new Biden Administration announced that it would begin to address the broken immigration system. The immediate response from advocates was to wonder aloud whether this time the nation might see a comprehensive approach to immigration. The last time anything close to a comprehensive approach was adopted occurred during the Reagan Administration …
Undocumented Immigration: Nothing Changes But the Faces Read More »
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