The current canons of education are replete with suggestions for how to raise the achievement of Hispanic and Latino students. Absent from that discussion is what to teach them in a way that anchors them to their uniquely American culture and history. The author considers how Mexican-American history is often taught as if it were an offshoot of African-American history, focusing on the conflation of the "Mendez" school segregation verdict by a federal appeals court with the landmark "Brown v. Board of Education" ruling.