{"product_id":"raza-schools-the-fight-for-latino-educational-autonomy-in-a-west-texas-borderlands-town-volume-4-paperback","title":"Raza Schools: The Fight for Latino Educational Autonomy in a West Texas Borderlands Town Volume 4 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJes俍 Jesse Esparza\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1929, a Latino community in the borderlands city of Del Rio, Texas, established the first and perhaps only autonomous Mexican American school district in Texas history. How it did so--against a background of institutional racism, poverty, and segregation--is the story Jes俍 Jesse Esparza tells in \u003ci\u003eRaza Schools\u003c\/i\u003e, a history of the rise and fall of the San Felipe Independent School District from the end of World War I through the post-civil rights era. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The residents of San Felipe, whose roots Esparza traces back to the nineteenth century, faced a Jim Crow society in which deep-seated discrimination extended to education, making biased curriculum, inferior facilities, and prejudiced teachers the norm. \u003ci\u003eRaza Schools\u003c\/i\u003e highlights how the people of San Felipe harnessed the mechanisms and structures of this discriminatory system to create their own educational institutions, using the courts whenever necessary to protect their autonomy. For forty-two years, the Latino community funded, maintained, and managed its own school system--until 1971, when in an attempt to address school segregation, the federal government forced the San Felipe Independent School District to consolidate with a larger neighboring, mostly white school district. Esparza describes the ensuing clashes--over curriculum, school governance, teachers' positions, and funding--that challenged Latino autonomy. While focusing on the relationships between Latinos and whites who shared a segregated city, his work also explores the experience of African Americans who lived in Del Rio and attended schools in both districts as a segregated population. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Telling the complex story of how territorial pride, race and racism, politics, economic pressures, local control, and the federal government collided in Del Rio, \u003ci\u003eRaza Schools\u003c\/i\u003e recovers a lost chapter in the history of educational civil rights--and in doing so, offers a more nuanced understanding of race relations, educational politics, and school activism in the US-Mexico borderlands. \u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 19, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44296896348262,"sku":"9780806192727","price":63.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/6CeM8XDBXQ9780806192727.webp?v=1767142526","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/raza-schools-the-fight-for-latino-educational-autonomy-in-a-west-texas-borderlands-town-volume-4-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}