Chicano! PBS Documentary – Taking Back Our Schools

Chicano! PBS Documentary – Taking Back Our Schools

1. Apply the concepts for the chapter on Education to the concrete issues discussed in Chicano! Taking
Back Our Schools
2. Discuss how covert and overt messages about race and social status are transmitted in school and in
society
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1. The former teachers in the documentary had a different take on the events leading to and surrounding
the walkout of East Los Angeles high school students. From their perspective, what institutional forces
contributed to the educational environment? From the students’ perspective, how did these teachers
work along with these institutional forces? What was the source of the difference in perspective
between the teachers and students?
2. An important tool the high school protestors used in this struggle was non-violence. How do you think
the threat of violence furthered the success of their non-violent struggle, if at all? Where and from
whom did this threat of non-violence come from? Can you draw similarities from this seemly
contradictory logic to any other non-violent movements in history? Explain in detail what movement,
how it was non-violent, and what elements threatened violence from inside or outside the movement.
3. One of the issues the students voiced dealt with language. What do they particularly want in terms of
language? What power does language hold, particularly to English speaking adolescents and young
adults “otherized” in society?
4. What are some of the hidden messages we get in society about citizenship? Meaning, what cultural
images and cues are we given to identify ourselves as Americans? Are these images ever contradictory?
If so, how? Are these images racialized or gendered? If so, how? What is the effect of these hidden
messages on people who do not fit the model type of an American citizen?
5. How did the parents of the students in the documentary talk about the issues affecting their children?
What was the major contributing factor in them being politicized to act on behalf of their children? Why
do you think their children were politicized faster abut these issues than their parents?

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