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What is different from the mission of late-nineteenth-century Eastern elite institutions and Midwestern normal schools is that the distance between a student and the language of the Academy (or what was expected to be mastered) seems to be a separate issue from pedagogy. This distance, if it existed, was regarded more as a “personal problem” or as an unfortunate personal characteristic that was almost akin to being regarded as illiterate. Students’ various social upbringings were seldom pedagogically considered in private Eastern elite colleges such as Harvard.
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This publication can be found at http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=411931 (“Wanted: Americans to Study in Mexico”), http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=372660 (“The Negro Problem in Boston”), and http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=284404 (“A Statement of Southern Problems”).
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In 1972, the Executive Committee of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) passed a resolution on “students’ rights to their own patterns and varieties of language.” Based on that resolution, CCCC created a position statement entitled “Students’ Right to Their Own Language,” which was adopted at the CCCC Annual Convention in April 1974. See http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Groups/CCCC/NewSRTOL.pdf
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In 1851, the U.S. Senate passed Gwin’s Act to Ascertain the Land Claims in California. The Act mandated that three members appointed by the President rule on land claims. The proceedings were formal, and neither Mexicans nor Americans could appeal to the U.S. District Court and to the U.S. Supreme Court. However, only the wealthy could afford such proceedings, so dispossession of land became a common practice.
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“[This] term derived from both the Iberian and Aztec traditions and applied to city districts inhabited by individuals having common familiar ties. In New Spain and its frontier settlements, the term referred to particular urban neighborhoods. After 1848, people used it to denote a discernible section of a town site inhabited by Mexicans” (Griswold de Castillo and de León 24).
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See also Let All of Them Take Heed: Mexican Americans and the Campaign for Educational Equality in Texas, 1910–1981 by Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr.
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Ruiz, I.D. (2016). Mexican Americans and African Americans: In/Visibility in Composition. In: Reclaiming Composition for Chicano/as and Other Ethnic Minorities. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53673-0_5
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