| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Brown, Not White: School Integration and the Chicano Movement in Houston. By Guadalupe San Miguel Jr. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001. xiv, 283 pp. $34.95, ISBN 1-58544-115-5.)

Guadalupe San Miguel Jr. provides a provocative account of a little-known struggle for educational reform that occurred in Houston, Texas, in the early 1970s. The key issues were ignited by a decision by the Houston Independent District School Board to pair Mexican children with black children exclusively for purposes of achieving court-ordered desegregation. The Mexican community organized to challenge the order, demanding that Anglo children be included, and eventually overturned the desegregation plan. Community groups formed the struggle: men, women, high school and university students, parents, teachers, and others. Together they fashioned a boycott that opposed the school board and led to school reforms that benefited the Mexican American community. . . .

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