Cultural Diversity and Inclusion Diversifying our culture in the world is extremely critical in order to propel to a brighter, better, and fairer future. This became quite essential since the rapid technological advancements led us into the new age of having a globalized society. To keep multicultural alive for future days to come, we must teach our younger generation, specifically the children, about its history and impact in our lives. What other better way to do this than to incorporate cultural diversity in children’s books. These books are the best way a child can gain an understanding about oneself and about the world around them. They are the key to their lively imagination that takes them to far away places that most could not even …show more content…
In a book titled “Separate Is Never Equal” by Duncan Tonatiuh, a young girl by the name of Sylvia Mendez, raised by a Mexican family in California back in 1944 was denied enrollment along with her sisters and brothers to a school. The story is followed by endlessly effort from her family and other families who have suffered the same injustice to combat against public school segregations. From this book, kids will learn about the racial inequalities happening back them not just for Mexicans but other races as well. Also, they will come to appreciate about having a fair and equal opportunity for all to live wherever and have access just like everybody else to critical things that will make them have a successful life like …show more content…
That’s why it’s of upmost importance for it to be added on in children’s books to teach kids about its historical roots, consequences that resulted from it, and ways to best eliminate it from our lives once and for all. This was at the center stage in a book called “Tar Beach” by Faith Ringgold. It’s a magical journey through the mind of an eight-year-old African-American girl, Cassie Louise Lightfoot whose lower class family lives in New York in late 1930s. She talks about how every time she visits “Tar Beach,” the rooftop of an apartment complex where her family lives; she soars through the skies visiting many of her favorite places in the city while having the power to take ownership of them. This gift allows her to triumph over the personal struggles her family is going through over racism before the Civil Rights Movement. This magnificent book showcases different ways of life and how with a little imagination nothing is in your way to find your
Unfortunately much of the Latino history has been ignored or not written in conventional textbooks, but the reality is that Latinos experienced similar experiences to the ones of African Americans. According to Richard Delgado, “Recent research by reputable historians shows that Latinos, particularly Mexican Americans in the southwest, were lynched in large numbers during roughly the same period when lynching of blacks ran rampart” (583). Moreover, Latinos have also been heavily discriminated within the educational system through segregation. Latinos along with African American were not allowed to attend school with white children and often had schools assigned to them. The purpose of segregating was to, “isolate Mexican American children and to retard their educational process” (Perea 601). Other methods of academically repressing Latinos included retaining them “in first grade for two or three years, which automatically placed them behind their Anglo peers” (Perea 602). Some of the rationale behind segregating children was that stereotypes were prevalent amid educators. Juan F. Perea sites in his article that show that, “teachers viewed their . . . students as lazy and favored Anglo students in . . . leadership roles . . . [that] were necessary to teach Anglos how to control and lead Mexicans” (Perea 602). The previous clearly demonstrates that the educational system sought hinder Latinos in the educational system for the purpose of maintaining a working
Professor. Guadalupe San Miguel Jr., the author of Brown, Not White: School Integration and the Chicano Movement in Houston, is a scholar of history. Born of Mexican parents, Prof. Miguel finds himself passionate about issues of segregation and minority’s rights violation. Prof. Miguel is widely schooled and specialized in Mexican education. He attained his
Haskins, Ron, and Marta Tienda. "Children of Illegal Immigrants Deserve Better Educational Options." The Children of Undocumented Immigrants. Ed. David Haugen and Susan Musser. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2013. At Issue. Rpt. from "The Future of Immigrant Children." The Future of Children (Spring 2011). Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 11 Apr. 2014
Why do some groups not succeed in academic settings? One theory brought up in “Understanding inequality” suggests that the gap in the socioeconomic status drives the inequalities in the school system. The low and working class have less time and income to intervene with schooling. This means they have less time to meet with teachers, hire tutors, and provide continuous transportation. Therefore the lower class can’t possibly compete with the middle and upper classes. Angela Valenzuela gives the accounts of some Hispanic students’ experiences in school. These students feel that it is the inferior nature of the schools in the US that contribute to the low success
By Luis Rodriguez writes how people from a different community is placed in under structure classes, which is not a class for A+ students but toward lower income community minorities. He states, “But the school also took in the people from the hills and surrounding communities who somehow made it past junior high. They were mostly Mexican, in the “C” track (what were called the stupid classes), and who made up the rosters of the wood, print and auto shop. Only a few of these students participated in school government, in sports, or in the various clubs.(83) Rodriguez elaborates that Mexican students were placed in a classroom that is considered stupid and undesirable environment to be in. Also According to a study by John Eligon, writes how children, lack of education can cause implication of having a job in society, especially not graduate high school which will increase the unemployment rate. He states, “For some, there was admittedly a lack of motivation to job-hunt. For another, Criminal records got in the way. Kaos said he had been turned away from Walmart, walgreens, Footlocker and other. One in four adults in this neighborhood has not graduated from high school, and the unemployment rate is 33 percent, two and a half times the citywide
In Jonathan Kozol “Still Separate Still Unequal” the author discusses how education for inner city school kids greatly differs from white school kids. “Schools that were already deeply segregated twenty-five or thirty years ago are no less segregated now” (Kozol 143). Although in 1954 the popular court case Brown vs Board of Education should have ended segregation in schools. The author shows how “the achievement gap between black and white children continues to widen or remain unchanged,” (Kozol 164) due to society’s grouping of privileges. Kozol relies heavily on logos to show how socio-economic privileges affects the education that inner city schools kids receive, those being blacks and Hispanics, compared to white schools kids.
In recent years, the Arizona education department has been under fire after the Arizona legislature passed a law banning Mexican-American studies in schools (Planas, 2015, p. 1). Not only have the schools in Arizona suffered from this discriminatory law, but also the advancement of Mexican-American students. This essay will briefly go over the Tucson Unified School District, the district in the midst of the controversy, and will mainly focus on Pueblo Magnet High School, one of the schools in the Tucson Unified School District that was greatly affected by the ethnic studies law.
Millions of children, teenagers, young adults, and adults attend school every Monday through Friday in the United States with the intent to learn and further their knowledge of core subjects. They learn math, science, English, history, and countless other subjects throughout the week of school. In history they learn about how for a long time in American history women were not allowed to go to school and were forbidden get a higher education for even longer. They also learn that for much of American history schools were separated by race. In “The Next Kind of Integration” by Emily Bazelon, the author talks about how in 2008 the Supreme Court ruled in a close decision that the racial-integration efforts of two school districts was unconstitutional. In “When Bright Girls Decide That Math is ‘a Waste of Time’” by Susan Jacoby, Jacoby talks about how gender stereotypes limit girls and young women from being proficient in math and science throughout their life. Even though integrating different races, socioeconomic statuses, and even genders can be difficult, in the long run it leads to better educated students and a better experience in school.
Mexican Americans in the education system have been treated unfair. From the Mendez v. Westminster to the low number of students graduating from high school and moving to a higher institution shows that the system has done nothing to help these students. By the help of the community wealth theory many of the few numbers of scholars who have been able to reach these higher institutions have been able to put families, schools, peers, and other influences for their benefit and for helping them enter these systems which are not welcoming to them. Various aspects of these systems need to be change from the diversity of teachers and desegregation in and within schools around the US which would influence the communication and thoughts that Mexican
The Mendez v Westminster case of 1946 ultimately attempted to create an education system that strived to promote success for children of Mexican descent by desegregating the public schools in California. Racist individuals dominated society by supporting these segregated schools which lacked a full staff and satisfactory teaching materials, thus inhibiting Latino youth from attaining a noteworthy educational experience. A photograph of Hoover Elementary, a “Mexican” school, found in the Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections shows the horrible
Jacqueline Novogratz once said, “I believe the government should ensure all children are provided with a good education.” When Luis Valdez wrote No Saco Nada de la Escuela in 1969, many hispanics were migrating into the United States to look for better job opportunities. As different people were moving to the United States, they were being discriminated against and did not receive the same opportunities as the white families. No Saco Nada de la Escuela is the plot of many children of different races attending the same schools and the white students get much better treatment than the students of other races. The multicultural students find out that they face many inequalities and that they have to fight to receive their education. This essay will examine determination, inequalities and education with the teacher, Monty, and Francisco.
The film “Taking Back the Schools” was an extremely great video to give visualizations to issues and struggles that ELLs in America once faced. The video served as a very informational tool for myself, as well as a detterent. Following World War II, Mexican-Americans began to come to the actualization that the current education they were recieving and accepting was inadmissable. It was along this time that the Mexican-American began to analyze what they were being taught in the public school, and deciding that change was desired. Students began to walk out during instruction and speak out about the injustices that were transpiring every day in Americas schools, but in particular students in the Los Angeles County School System. The academic
Children of undocumented immigrants are entitled to public education, because the U.S. constitution guarantees that migrant children and children born in the U.S. have equal educational opportunities. European immigrants migrated to the United States without question of their legal status, and were able to easily blend in, however, in the current time, race plays a great part in how people perceive undocumented migrants. Children are the future of our country and their education shouldn’t be determined by their parent’s legal status. I plan to use this article to explain how immigrants are treated differently than they were in the past, and how race may play a role into it.
Today’s classroom is very diverse and the activities should represent the classroom culture. The development of children is centered on what is taught in the classroom. Therefore, the language, intellectual, personality, social and moral, and aesthetic and creative development of preschool age children should be enhanced through multicultural activities and lessons.
In Chapter 1 Multicultural Children's Literature Through the Eyes of Many Children, by Donna E. Norton, The first most important idea is that "The United States and Canada are multicultural nations, including Europeans, Native Americans, African Americans, Latinos, and Asians. the United States and Canada also include people from different religious groups such as Christian, Jewish, and Muslim" (Pg. 1) It is important it is not easier to process than that of other social and cultural comprehension have an objective perspective. Better understand correctly, the culture of a society is possible through comparison with the culture of other societies. When comparing such cultures and the culture