MA History
Mexican American sailors were attacked for 10 straight nights in June of 1943
What were the Zoot Suit Riots?
African American military pilots who fought during WWII
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
Author of House on Mango Street
Who is Sandra Cisneros?
Author of the Color Purple
Who is Alice Walker?
Author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Who was Paulo Freire?
Ended the Mexican-American War in favor of the United States in 1848
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Act that required slaves to be returned to their owners in 1850
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
Author of Bless Me Ultima
Who is Rudolfo Anaya?
This book details the life of a civil rights leader aka "Detroit Red"
Who is Malcolm X?
Teachers can draw on the knowledge and skills students acquire from home and students' communities
What are Funds of Knowledge?
Cultural belief that US settlers were destined to expand across North American
What is Manifest Destiny?
Leader of an enslaved rebellion in Virginia in 1831 that took over 50 lives?
Who was Nat Turner?
In Always Running, where did Luis Rodriguez say he grew up?
What is East Los Angeles?
This book is narrated by Starr Carter who attends an elite private school by day
What is The Hate You Give?
Tara Yosso asks teachers to include these stories that challenge widespread beliefs
What are counter-narratives?
Established in 1942 by executive order to permit short-term labor contracts with Mexican men.
What was the Bracero Program?
1920's and 1930's intellectural and cultural revival of AA music, dance, art, fashion, literature, etc.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Celia C. Perez is the author of what award-winning book?
What is First Rule of Punk?
Kwame Alexander is the author of this book told entirely through verse
What is The Crossover?
This approach is grounded in what students can do and focuses on their strengths
What is an asset-based approach to teaching?
Systematic deportation fo Mexican and Mexican Americans during the Great Depresssion
What was Mexican Repatriation?
Name either civil rights group that organized most of the Freedom Rides
Who are CORE and SNCC?
Author of I am not your perfect Mexican daughter and SICRE 2021 presenter
Who is Erika Sanchez?
Melba Pattillo Beals wrote about her experience as a member of the Little Rock Nine in this book
What is Warriors Don't Cry?
According to Freire, "reflection and action upon the world in order to transform it"
What is praxis?