Raza Schools: The Fight for Latino Educational Autonomy in a West Texas Borderlands Town Volume 4

by Jesaus Jesse Esparza

In 1929, a Latino community in the borderlands city of Del Rio, Texas, established the first and perhaps only autonomous Mexican American school district in Texas history. How it did so--against a background of institutional racism, poverty, and segregation--is the story Jes s Jesse Esparza tells in Raza Schools, a history of the rise and fall of the San Felipe Independent School District from the end of World War I through the post-civil rights...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806192712
• ISBN13: 9780806192710
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"