I like the fact that this chapter exposed the struggles of the different ethnicities throughout history. I feel like a lot of emphasis is placed on the struggles of African and Native Americans in academic settings but the struggles of Mexican and Asian Americans are overseen. I also think it’s interesting that by sending immigrant children to school they’re trying to “Americanize” them yet even if they are “Americanized”, they still wouldn’t be accepted into the ‘white’ inner circle. Even if they deculturize them, they’d just be categorized as foreigners who are trying to mimic American culture. Did they do this because they were threatened by foreign culture and they felt that if they assimilated them, they’d be easier to control/manipulate?
I also respected the fact that African Americans revolted and started their own education system. But, did the other immigrants also have some sort of secret schools that the white population didn’t know about like the African American community did? I’m sure that some of them were teachers or held academic positions in their home countries, so did they continue teaching in their communities when they got to America?
