Cases
Acts
Propositions
Social Forces
Miscellaneous
100
This is the case that led to the end of segregation in California Schools.
What is Mendez vs. Westminster?
100
This is the act that authorized financial aid for Chicanos.
What is the Higher Education Act?
100
This is the first proposition that the book mentions.
What Proposition 187?
100
Because of the assimilationist perspective this is the way Mexicans viewed themselves.
What is a negative view?
100
This was seen as "un-American".
What is bilingualism?
200
This is the case that was modeled after Mendez V. Westminster two years later in Texas.
What is Delgado vs. Bastrop Independent School District?
200
This act provided help for those people who had limited speaking skills.
What is the Bilingual Education Act?
200
This is Proposition 209.
What is the proposition that eliminated affirmative action in California?
200
This perspective is being excepting of a variety of languages and it's seen as a necessity.
What is the pluralist perspective?
200
These programs were non-existent until the late 1960's.
What were bilingual programs?
300
This is the case where non-English speaking students of Chinese ancestry brought suit against the San Francisco Unified School District.
What is Lau V. Nichols?
300
This act was created in response to the failure of Proposition 227.
What is the Federal Bilingual Education Act?
300
This proposition mandates that limited English speaking students be put into separate classrooms regardless of age, language, background and academic ability.
What is Proposition 227?
300
This is the perspective that saw bilingualism as a disability.
What is the assimilationist perspective?
300
This was a way to degrade and control an entire cultural group without explicitly using force or violence.
What is suppressing Spanish?
400
This case was modeled after the Lau case. Its purpose was to seek an order requiring the district to provide bilingual and bicultural education.
What is Serna V. Portales Municipal Schools
400
This act gave an advantage to middle class white people who had already started school fluent in a foreign language.
What is the National Defense Education Act?
400
This proposition denied public education to illegal aliens or anyone suspected to be illegal.
What is Proposition 187?
400
This is something the Chicanos rejected as a result of the pluralist perspective.
What is colonization?
400
Brown declared this was unconstitutional because it conveyed the message that black children were an untouchable caste unfit to be educated with white children.
What is segregation?
500
Before this case schools claimed to desegregate classes by combining Chicano/as and African Americans into one class
What is Keyes V. School District
500
This act bans discrimination based on the ground of race, color, or national origin in any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
What is the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act?
500
All of these contributed to racist practices of segregation.
What is the importance of Propositions 187, 209, and 227?
500
The movement to obtain bilingual education began in the 1960's due to this.
What is social activism and policies?
500
During this administration the government cut funding for bilingual education by 34 million dollars within a 6-year period.
What is the Reagan administration?