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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Damning Historical Visual Archives: Deficit Photographing of Mexicans and the Schooling Process
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Gonzalez, Juan Carlos – American Educational History Journal, 2008
In this analysis of deficit theory, the plan is to understand how deficit ideology was visually perpetuated in the early twentieth century. The belief that Mexicans were racially, culturally, and linguistically inferior perpetuated itself in the classrooms of Southwest public schools, resulting in the proliferation of a structure of…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Photography, Visual Aids, Educational History
The Ordinary-ness of Institutional Racism: The Effect of History and Law in the Segregation and Integration of Latinas/os in Schools
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Gonzalez, Juan Carlos – American Educational History Journal, 2007
This article examines the effect of history and law in the segregation and integration of Latinas/os in schools. Initially, a Critical Race Theory (CRT) analysis of the question of the effects of Latina/o school desegregation history and law on their present-day educational conditions highlighted the reasons for the omni-present struggle for…
Descriptors: Equal Education, School Desegregation, School Segregation, Hispanic Americans