Blowout!

by Garcia, Mario T.; Castro, Sal

• ISBN13: 9780807834480
• ISBN10: 0807834483
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-21
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

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 Mexican Americans in U.S. history. This fascinatingtestimonio, or oral history, transcribed and presented in Castro's voice by historian Mario T. Garcia, is a compelling, highly readable narrative of a young boy growing up in Los Angeles who made history by his leadership in the blowouts and in his career as a dedicated and committed teacher.Blowout!fills a major void in the history of the civil rights and Chicano movements of the 1960s, particularly the struggle for educational justice.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: The Sal Castro Story	p. 1
Born in East L.A.	p. 27
Veterano	p. 56
Viva Kennedy	p. 74
Mr. Castro	p. 86
The Mexican Schools	p. 110
Blowout: Part I	p. 133
Blowout: Part II	p. 172
The East L.A. 13	p. 194
Reprisals and Struggles	p. 221
All My Children	p. 250
Education Today and Legacies	p. 280
Epilogue: The Camp Hess Kramer Spirit	p. 303
Afterword: Pedagogy of Chicano Power: Sal Castro, Paulo Freire, and the Mexican American Youth Leadership Conferences, 1963-1968	p. 307
Appendix: Chicano Movement Historiography	p. 325
Notes	p. 333
Index	p. 363
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