The miseducation of Mexican Americans: The crossroads of affirmative action and bilingual education
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Table of Contents
- The meaning of the phrase 'bilingual education'.
- What bilingual education can achieve?
- Misconceptions regarding affirmative action.
- Bilingual education and maltreatment of LEP students by public and private sectors.
- Correction of the disenfranchisement of LEP students.
- Examples of how bilingual education is not a form of affirmative action.
- The story of Mexican Americans in the American Southwest.
- Conclusion.
Abstract
From its inception, the US has been a nation of foreign cultures and languages, a nation with a strong ideology committed to ideals of harmony and justice. Since its inception too, the nation has time and time again fallen far short of these ideals. While waves of immigrant ethnic groups have eagerly entered the country, the country has many times violently expanded its borders and annexed new groups. Today the US is a complicated milieu of values, languages, and peoples, and continues to struggle with the idea of a singular American cultural identity. bilingual education and affirmative action are two major policies that have lately emerged as the focal points of this discourse, though both issues are mostly treated as separate. In theory, bilingual education is a major benefactor of ethnolinguistic minorities, while affirmative action sponsors women and racial minorities with histories of being discriminated against.
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