In Separate is Never Equal, Duncan Tonathiuh describes the fight for school integration in the 1940s here in Southern California. He documents the actual court case of Medez v. Westminster School District which preceded the groundbreaking case of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. In a 2 page (500 word essay, double spaced, Times New Roman font), please make an argument about why this book is essential to our understanding about desegregation in schools.
Questions and themes to consider in order to help you come up with your own argument (you can use some of these to build your own argument about segregation in the schools, but if you use all of them, you might need to write a much longer paper):
1. Latino stereotypes. (What stereotypes were used to keep Latinos or brown children separated from white children)?
2. Why is segregation wrong?
3. Difference in learning/education in the White school versus the Brown school?