"Let All of Them Take Heed"

"Let All of Them Take Heed": Mexican Americans and the Campaign for Educational Equality in Texas, 1910-1981

Title page for "Let All of Them Take Heed": Mexican Americans and the Campaign for Educational Equality in Texas, 1910-1981 (1987)
Author	Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr.
Publisher	University of Texas Press
Publication date	1987

"Let All of Them Take Heed": Mexican Americans and the Campaign for Educational Equality in Texas, 1910-1981 is a non-fiction book by Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr., published by University of Texas Press in 1987. Let All of Them Take Heed argues that Mexican-Americans in the period saw education as central to success in the United States, with participation in League of United Latin American Citizens being key evidence. ^[1] The book argues against the idea that the ethnic group did not place value in education. ^[2] According to Richard A. Garcia of Santa Monica College, "Let All of Them Take Heed" "is the first major work to give credence to the reality of a strong Mexican American civil rights movement[...]" ^[3]

Contents

In the final chapter of the book, San Miguel discusses how efforts by civil rights organizations were thwarted. ^[4]

Reception

Garcia wrote that this work is "a study worth reading". ^[5]

Ruth Horowitz of the University of Delaware described it as a "highly textured study". ^[2] She described it as important, though she felt the central ideas should have been better explained. ^[6]

See also

• Brown, Not White - Another book by San Miguel
• Tejano Proud - Another book by San Miguel
• History of Mexican Americans in Texas

References

• Garcia, Richard A (1990). "San Miguel, Jr., "Let All of Them Take Heed" (Book Review)" . History of Education Quarterly . 30 (1): 114. doi:10.2307/368768. JSTOR   368768.
• Horowitz, Ruth (1988). ""Let All of Them Take Heed": Mexican Americans and the Campaign for Educational Equality in Texas, 1910-1981. Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr" . The American Journal of Sociology . 94 (3): 693–695. doi:10.1086/229053.

Notes

1. Garcia, p. 114-115.
2. Horowitz, p. 693.
3. Garcia, p. 116.
4. Horowitz, p. 694.
5. Garcia, p. 117.
6. Horowitz, p. 694-695.

Further reading

• Gonzalez, Gilbert G (1989). "Reviews of Books: "Let All of Them Take Heed"" . The American Historical Review . 94 (1): 227–228. doi:10.2307/1862249. JSTOR   1862249.
• Gutierrez, David G. (1989). "The Third Generation: Reflections on Recent Chicano Historiography: Mexicano Resistance in the Southwest . Robert Rosenbaum.; Let All of Them Take Heed: Mexican Americans and the Campaign for Educational Equality in Texas, 1910-1981 . Guadalupe San Miguel Jr..; Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986 . David Montejano.; The Texas-Mexican Conjunto: History of a Working Class Music . Manuel Pena" . Mexican Studies . 5 (2): 281–296. doi:10.2307/1052091. JSTOR   1052091.
• Hendrick, Irving G. (1988). "Review: "Let All of Them Take Heed": Mexican Americans and the Campaign for Educational Equality in Texas, 1910-1981, by Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr". Pacific Historical Review . 57 (4): 497–498. doi:10.2307/3640399. JSTOR   3640399.
• Procter, Ben (1988). "San Miguel, "Let All of Them Take Heed" (Book Review)" . The Journal of American History . 75 (2): 650. doi:10.2307/1887961. JSTOR   1887961.