The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of the Civil Rights Movement

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 09.02.09

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Objectives
  2. Strategies
  3. Notes
  4. Teacher's Bibliography
  5. Videos
  6. Websites
  7. Appendix

Hispanic Identity: From Dreams to Civic Participation

Meredith Charlton Tilp

Published September 2009

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Teacher's Bibliography

Bradshaw, Gilbert Who's Black, Who's Brown and Who Cares? The Case of Hérnandez v. Texas, Las Vegas, Nevada, Latino/a Critical Legal Studies XI 2006. A discussion of the language of identity.

Doan, Grace Olivares and Stephan, Cookie White, The functions of ethnic identity: A New Mexico Hispanic example, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico. The New Mexico example of a discussion of the language of identity.

Foley, Neil The History of Hérnandez v. Texas: A 50th Anniversary Celebration. Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy, Volume II:II, 2005. The University of Texas' Law School annual report gives helpful information about the history of the Hérnandez case.

Lamar, Howard, editor, Vivian, James R, Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West, Yale University Press 1998. An encyclopedia of events and people of the American West.

Obama, Barack, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, Three Rivers Press, New York, 1995.

President Barack Obama's identity, early life, significant life events and community organizing experiences.

Olivas, Michael A., ed., "Colored men" and "hombres aquí" : Hernandez v. Texas and the emergence of Mexican-American Lawyering," Arte Público Press, Houston Texas, 2006.

Romero, Fernando Hyperborder: The Contemporary U.S.-Mexico Border and Its Future, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2008.

Supreme Court decision, Hérnandez v. Texas 1954

http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/clark/view_doc.php?id=a32-06-03

Wilson, William Julius, More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City, W.W. Norton, New York, 2009.

This book has an excellent discussion of cultural and structural forms of discrimination.

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