REQUIRED BOOKS:
1) Jose Moreno, ed. The Elusive Quest for Equality: 150 Years of
Chicano/Chicana Education (Cambridge: Harvard Educational Review, 1999)
2) Tara Yosso, Critical Race Counterstories along the Chicana/Chicano Educational Pipeline (New York: Routledge, 2006)
3) Marcos PizarroChicanas and Chicanos in School: Racial Profiling, Identity Battles and Empowerment (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005)
4) Paul Caudros, A Home on the Field (New York: Rayo, 2006)
READING SCHEDULE:
Tuesday 8/21
Introduction to Course
Thursday 8/23 “Falling Through the Cracks”
CSRC Research Report: “Falling Trough the Cracks: Critical Transitions in the Latina/o Educational Pipeline” (PDF copy)
PART ONE: History of Chican@ Education
Book: Jose Moreno, ed. The Elusive Quest for Equality: 150 Years of
Chicano/Chicana Education
Tuesday 8/28
-Martha Menchaca, “The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Racialization of the Mexican Population”
Thursday 8/30
-Guadalupe San Miguel Jr. “The Schooling of Mexicanos in the Southwest, 1848-1891”
Tuesday 9/4
-Gilbert Gonzalez, “Segregation and the Education of Mexican Children, 1900-1940”
-VIDEO: “Lemon Grove Incident”
Thursday 9/6
-Dolores Delgado Bernal, “Chicana/o Education from the Civil Rights Era to the Present”
-VIDEO: “Taking Back the Schools”
PART TWO: Chican@ Education in the Contemporary Era
Tuesday 9/11
-Eugene Garcia, “Chicano/as in the United States: Language, Bilingual Education, and Achievement”
Thursday 9/13
Richard Valencia, “Educational Testing and Mexican American Students: Problems and Prospects”
Tuesday 9/18
-Patricia Gandara, “”Staying in the Race: The Challenge for Chicano/as in Higher Education”
Thursday 9/20
-Gary Orfield, Politics Matters: Educational Policy and Chicano Students”
VIDEO: Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary School
PART THREE: The Chican@ Educational Pipeline
Book: Tara Yosso, Critical Race Counterstories along the Chicana/Chicano Educational Pipeline
Tuesday 9/25
Chapter 1: Why Use Critical Race Theory and Counterstorytelling to Analyze the Chicana/o Educational Pipeline
Thursday 9/27
Chapter 2: Elementary School: Madres for the Educacíon
Tuesday 10/2
Chapter 3: High School: Students on the Move
Thursday 10/4
Chapter 4: College: Chicana/o Undergraduate “Stages of Passage”
Tuesday, 10/9
Chapter 5: Graduate School: “It’s Exhausting Being Mexican American!”
VIDEO: Shattering the Silence
Distribute Midterm Exam
Thursday, 10/11 --No Class
PART FOUR: Chican@ Students in High School
Book: Marcos Pizarro’s Chicanas and Chicanos in School: Racial Profiling, Identity Battles and Empowerment
Tuesday 10/16 Midterm Exam Due
Introduction (pp. 1-38)
Thursday, 10/18
Marcos Pizarro’s Chicanas and Chicanos in School: Part One: East Los Angeles High School Project (pp. 41-57)
Tuesday 10/23
Marcos Pizarro’s Chicanas and Chicanos in School: Part One: East Los Angeles High School Project (pp. 58-111)
Thursday, 10/25
Marcos Pizarro’s Chicanas and Chicanos in School:Part Two: Yakima High School Project (pp. 115-157)
Tuesday 10/30
Marcos Pizarro’s Chicanas and Chicanos in School:Part Two: Yakima High School Project (pp.158-200)
Thursday 11/1 NO CLASS
C.A.S.H.E. Conference
November 2-4, 2007
(conference website)
Tuesday 11/6
Marcos Pizarro’s Chicanas and Chicanos in School:Part Three: Lessons from the Two Case Studies (pp. 201-269)
PART FIVE:
Thursday 11/8
Marcos Pizarro’s Chicanas and Chicanos in School:
"Contextualized Mentoring" and Solutions
Tuesday 11/13 Immigrant Students
C.A.S.H.E. Project DUE
-Jonathan Inda and Luis Miron, "Constructing Cultural Citizenship: Latino Immigrant Students and Learning English" (PDF Copy)
Thursday 11/15 No Class
Thanksgiving Holiday 11/19-11/23
Tuesday 11/27
Contextualized Mentoring Meetings
(see list posted in Wilson 120 office door)
Thursday 11/29
Contexutalized Mentoring Meetings
Tuesday 12/4
Counterstory Presentations
Thursday 12/6
Counterstory Presentations
Counterstory Paper Due
By 5pm Friday December 14, 2007