Chicano Empowerment and Bilingual Education

First published in 1999. This study looks at the relationship between the quest for Chicano community empowerment in the Winter Garden region, the development and implementation of the bilingual/cultural education program in Crystal City, Texas, and bilingual education policy change. Chapter 1 Overview; Chapter 2 The Chicano Ethnoterritorial Movement and Bilingual Education Policy; Chapter 3 Ethnoregional Politics, Schooling Reforms, and Bilingual Education; Chapter 4 Bilingual Education, Teaching Ideology, and Educators’ Perspectives; Chapter 5 Community Perspectives on the Movimiento: Ideology, Bilingual Education, and Ethnoregion; Chapter 6 Reflections on Empowerment, Schooling, and Cristal as Movimiento Icon;