Book
Chicano empowerment and bilingual education: movimiento politics in Crystal City, Texas
Garland Pub. • New York • Published In 1998 • Pages: xvi, 228
By: Trujillo, Armando L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is the story of how Mexican-Americans in a small city in South Texas empowered themselves in their fight for bilingual education. In 1969, the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) targetted the Crystal City school system and lead a three-week walkout by Mexican-American students protesting discrimination by administration and teachers. Demands included a call for bilingual and bicultural education. MAYO won some initial concessions, but little more. The next step was to organize an alternative party, La Raza Unida (RUP), to run a slate of candidates for city council and the school board. In 1970 the party won majorities in both arenas and began to reshape the school curriculum and address long ignored issues, concerning housing, health care, and unemployment. Trujillo discusses the Aztlán movement and the importance of ideology in raising ethnic consciousness and formenting ethnic unity. He also describes how the movement petered out once initial gains were made and consolidated.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural revitalization and ethnogenesis
- Ethnic stratification
- Political parties
- Political movements
- Education system
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chicanos
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1989-1992
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1969-1989
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Crystal City, Zavala County, Texas
- NotesAdditional notes
- Armando L. Trujillo
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-219) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 98028626
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mexican Americans