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Tex/Mex Border Roots and Beyond

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Leaders in Social Education

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Family, ethnicity, and place shaped my future and views on teaching and social education, my life’s passion. A baby boomer born in El Paso, Texas, in 1947 to a second generation Mexican American mother and Mexican father was my good fortune. A bilingual and bicultural home life with proud and loving parents gave my four siblings and me solid family roots and the knowledge and skills needed to navigate confidently in an Anglo-dominated power base. Border life meant drawing the best from two wonderful ways of life.

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Contreras, G. (2014). Tex/Mex Border Roots and Beyond. In: Woyshner, C. (eds) Leaders in Social Education. Leaders in Educational Studies. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-665-3_3

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