keywords
- History of American Education, Latino Education in the American Southwest
- Contact Info
Donato, Ruben
Positions
- Professor Emerita/Emeritus, School of Education
Research Areas
Research
Publications
selected publications
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book
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chapter
- Latino Education in 20th Century America: A Brief History. 27-62. 2010
- Segregation, Desegregation, and Integration of Chicano Students: Old and New Realities. 70-113. 2003
- No One Here to Put Us Down: Hispano Education in a Southern Colorado community, 1920-1964 2000
- Segregation, desegregation, and integration of Chicano students: Problems and Prospects. 27-63. 1991
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journal article
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Mexican American Educational History: A Moment of Recognition.
Teachers College Record.
144-153.
2023
- Learning from the past: the Rejection of Mexican Immigrant children from a Louisiana school, 1915-1916 2023
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Mexican-American resistance to school segregation.
Phi Delta Kappan.
39-42.
2019
- The Braceros: Mexican Workers in the Jim Crow South, 1949–1951. Social Education. 51-57. 2019
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“Porque tenían sangre de ‘NEGROS’”: The Exclusion of Mexican Children from a Louisiana School, 1915-1916.
125-125.
2017
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“In These Towns, Mexicans Are Classified as Negroes”.
The American Educational Research Journal (AERJ).
53S-74S.
2017
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Francisco Maestas et al. v. George H. Shone et al.: Mexican American Resistance to School Segregation in the Hispano Homeland, 1912-1914.
Journal of Latinos and Education.
3-17.
2017
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Legally White, Socially 'Mexican": The Politics of De Jure and De Facto School Segregation in the American Southwest.
Harvard Educational Review.
202-225.
2012
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Unmasking the school re-zoning process: Race and class in a Northern Colorado community.
Latino Studies.
222-249.
2009
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Sugar Beets, Segregation, and Schools: Mexican Americans in a Northern Colorado Community, 1920-1960.
Journal of Latinos and Education.
69-88.
2003
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New Directions in American Educational History: Problems and Prospects.
Educational Researcher.
4-15.
2000
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Hispano education and the implications of autonomy: Four school systems in southern Colorado, 1920-1963.
Harvard Educational Review.
117-149.
1999
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The irony of year-round schools: Mexican migrant resistance in a California community during the civil rights era.
Educational Administration Quarterly.
181-208.
1996
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Mexican Americans in middle schools: The illusion of educational reform.
Theory into Practice.
173-182.
1994
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Language Segregation in Desegregated Schools.
Equity and Excellence in Education.
94-99.
1991
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Mexican American Educational History: A Moment of Recognition.
Teachers College Record.
144-153.
2023
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., Stanford University 1987
- M.A., Stanford University 1985
- B.A., University of California-Santa Cruz 1979
awards and honors
International Activities
geographic focus
- Mexico Country