I read this article about Mexican Discrimination in American education.  The struggle goes way back to when the US annexed Texas from Mexico in 1848.  Many Mexicans immigrated to the US when a call for a large sum of cheap labor was heard.  In 1930, almost all schools were still segregated.  Short education and cheap instructing separated Mexican students from American students.  Not until the 1960's did Mexicans achieve equality in education to Americans.  This reminded me of the book Nectar in a Sieve.  It kind of works backwards in my example.  The English saw demand for cheap labor in India.  Therefore they went and built a Tannery there so they could pay their workers very little money.  Even though the Indians helped the English, the English still saw themselves as superior.  One of Rukmani's sons was trying to steal a calfskin and the English ended up killing him because of it.  They did not give him any rights at all before they punished him.  "Fighting Discrimination in Mexican American Education." History Matters.  02 December 2000.  08 February 2009.  <http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6584/>