Strategies of Segregation

Race, Residence, and the Struggle for Educational Equality

• Author(s): David G. García,
• Publisher: Univ of California Press
• Pages: 276
• ISBN_10: 0520296869
  ISBN_13: 9780520296862
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Education / Administration / General , Education / History , History / General , History / United States / 20th Century , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Sociology / Urban , Social Science / Discrimination ,

Description:... Strategies of Segregation unearths the ideological and structural architecture of enduring racial inequality within and beyond schools in Oxnard, California. In this meticulously researched account, which focuses on the period from 1903 to 1974, David G. García excavates new archival sources to expose a separate and unequal education system and its purposeful links with racially restrictive housing covenants. He recovers powerful oral histories of Mexican Americans and African Americans who endured disparate treatment and protested discrimination. His analysis is skillfully woven into a compelling narrative that culminates in an examination of one of the nation’s first desegregation cases filed jointly by Mexican American and Black plaintiffs. This transdisciplinary history advances our understanding of racism and community resistance across time and place.