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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818427403321

Autore

García Mario T

Titolo

Blowout! : Sal Castro and the Chicano struggle for educational justice / / Mario T. García & Sal Castro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, c2011

ISBN

979-88-9313-415-5

1-4696-0330-6

0-8078-7791-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (382 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CastroSal

Disciplina

371.829/68073

B

Soggetti

Hispanic Americans - Education - United States

Hispanic Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century

Educational equalization - United States

Race discrimination - United States

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: The Sal Castro Story; 1 Born in East L.A; 2 Veterano; 3 Viva Kennedy; 4 Mr. Castro; 5 The Mexican Schools; 6 Blowout: Part I; 7 Blowout: Part II; 8 The East L.A. 13; 9 Reprisals and Struggles; 10 All My Children; 11 Education Today and Legacies; EPILOGUE: The Camp Hess Kramer Spirit; AFTERWORD: Pedagogy of Chicano Power: Sal Castro, Paulo Freire, and the Mexican American Youth Leadership Conferences, 1963-1968; APPENDIX: Chicano Movement Historiography; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools and middle schools to protest decades of inferior and discriminatory education in the so-called ""Mexican Schools."" During these historic walkouts, or ""blowouts,"" the students were led by Sal Castro, a courageous and charismatic Mexican American teacher who encouraged the students to make their grievances public after school administrators and school board members failed to listen to them. The resulting blowouts sparked the



beginning of the urban Chicano Movement of the late 1960's and early 1970's,