I never knew this before because in my history classes in high school we always taught how African American's endured segregation and racial discrimination. After reading Menchaca's chapter it was a shock and a new thing I learned. Many Mexicans were segregated from public intuitions. School segregation cases serve as further illustrations of racial discrimination against dark-complexed Mexican people. I was shocked to read how schools segregated Mexican students because of social deficit justification (language), intelligence quotients, and the "infectious diseases of Mexicans". I was appalled to read how stupid and how racist these legislations were at attacking Mexican students. The bottom line was that most legislators attempted to segregate Mexican students on the ground the most of them were non-white. This section of the chapter offered an interesting view of how Mexicans students were segregated in public schools. This racial segregation of schools would not be dealt with until Brown v. Board of Education would go to the Supreme
I never knew this before because in my history classes in high school we always taught how African American's endured segregation and racial discrimination. After reading Menchaca's chapter it was a shock and a new thing I learned. Many Mexicans were segregated from public intuitions. School segregation cases serve as further illustrations of racial discrimination against dark-complexed Mexican people. I was shocked to read how schools segregated Mexican students because of social deficit justification (language), intelligence quotients, and the "infectious diseases of Mexicans". I was appalled to read how stupid and how racist these legislations were at attacking Mexican students. The bottom line was that most legislators attempted to segregate Mexican students on the ground the most of them were non-white. This section of the chapter offered an interesting view of how Mexicans students were segregated in public schools. This racial segregation of schools would not be dealt with until Brown v. Board of Education would go to the Supreme