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Paperback. Blowout!: Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice Num Pages: 367 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; JFSL4; JNF; JNKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 576.
In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools and middle schools to protest decades of inferior and discriminatory education in the so-called "Mexican Schools." During these historic walkouts, or "blowouts," the students were led by Sal Castro, a courageous and charismatic Mexican American teacher who encouraged the students to make their grievances public after school administrators and school board members failed to listen to them. The resulting blowouts sparked the beginning of the urban Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the largest and most widespread civil rights protests by ... Read more
In March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools and middle schools to protest decades of inferior and discriminatory education in the so-called "Mexican Schools." During these historic walkouts, or "blowouts," the students were led by Sal Castro, a courageous and charismatic Mexican American teacher who encouraged the students to make their grievances public after school administrators and school board members failed to listen to them. The resulting blowouts sparked the beginning of the urban Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the largest and most widespread civil rights protests by ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469618982
SKU
V9781469618982
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About Sal Castro
Mario T. Garcia is professor of Chicana/o studies and adjunct professor in history and religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Sal Castro is an American educator and activist.
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