By looking at our diverse school system today, I can say we have come a long way. This chapter mostly interests me because it focuses on the segregation and discrimination of native, mexican, Asian, Puerto Rican and African Americans. It opens up my eyes to read about this history because when i hear segregation I think of African Americans. This chapter displayed the importance of the Mexican-American War. Discussing the issue of the hatred among the irish and anglo-saxons in class is revisited in chapter 7 as many U.S citizens thought in their minds that Mexico stood for catholicism and feudalism. Now on the issues of education, puerto rican, native americans and mexican americans were in the same bout as educational policy was based on a desire to win the loyalty of these conquered people and stabilize control over them.
Throughout the chapter we see the control the u.s had over immigrants, how is this social control still seen in the education system we have today?
We have come a long way in regards to multiculturalism in the school system, but is there a way to make immigrants feel that they can achieve more than the norm in the school system and include them more in the curriculum ?
