And Your Mother Too
“Everybody said, ‘that must be the Latino community in California,’ ” says Valladolid. But it was the white community of 1950, many of whom had moved from the Midwest. “How did they change it to where 35 percent of white students get a B.A.?” asks Vallodolid. “His response was: through schools, churches, government … educational programs. It’s the same challenge today, but rather than a migratory population, we have an immigrant population.”
