This ethnography focuses on a Chicano community in South Texas and its struggle to establish school reform during the cultural nationalist movement of the 70s. During this movement, members of the Chicano community formed La Raza Unida, an alternative political party that initiated a variety of reform programs, the most prominent of which was a comprehensive pre-kindergarten through 12th grade bilingual/bicultural education program. Through this program, Chicano leaders sought to reverse the effects of assimilative Anglo schooling and cultivate a new Chicano worldview. However, resistance...