Being Mexican: Strengths and Challenges of

Sarita 14 Mexico 7th 7 two N / A a All participants' names are pseudonyms. b English, Spanish or both. c Middle income: $ 37,774 - $ 60,000, low to medium income of $ 20,035 - $ 37,774, low income: less than $ 20,035. Indicates that participants did not report

Challenge discrimination "Just because you are a Mexican you do not have papers - you undertake your work - you are one of them.

Advantage Pride "I understand my tradition and understand my history, so I am proud to be Mexican."

"There is nothing to support you, no money, no courage to come to other countries without English."

"(My father is trying to provide us what we have right now, it just means to overcome the struggle."

The five US Mexican-American fathers in Los Angeles, California (Thomas Estrada, William Guzman, Gonzalo Mendes, Frank Palomino, Lorenzo Ramirez) The United States District Court questioned about the isolation of schools in Mexico. They claim that they were forced to participate in their separate "Mexican schools" in Westminster, Gardner Grosvenor, Santa Ana, and El Molena, with their children and 5,000 other "Mexican" children I will. Let's become a victim of illegal discrimination. county

Starting with San Antonio, MALDEF is the center of equitable equality of many Mexican-Americans in the province. This represents the poor Edgewood Independent School District in San Antonio. It was necessary to discriminate poor students in state public school funding systems. Many of them are Mexican American or Latino. When Maldov appealed the province in 1987, only 10% of the State's state funds flowed to the border areas and South Texas where many Mexican American residents had lived. There are only two doctoral courses in this area. Litigation brought state law to strengthen higher education in border areas

The author of this paper believes that the case of Francisco Maestas et al. And George H. Shone et al. (1914) is one of the first challenges to isolation of American schools in the United States. Lawsuits were held in southern Colorado where Mexican Americans have a deep history. This case is unique as the ethnic background and language needs of Mexican American children are questioned. First, plaintiffs (Mexican Americans) regard the children as ethnically different from the Mexican and are challenging Apartheid using the Colorado state constitution. . Defendant (committee member and director of the board of education) argued that Mexican American children are white and claimed that they are the same as other white children in the school district.

Francisco Maestas et al. v. George H. Shone et al. : Mexico - American Hispano Homeland school separation, 1912 - 1914