ABSTRACT
George Washington High School stands like a fortress, occupying a square block in a neighborhood that has hosted waves of immigrants to All American City since before the turn of the century. Now, most of the students are African-Americans; many of them children of immigrants from southern states to All American City. Students whose parents or grandparents emigrated from Puerto Rico are the second largest ethnic bloc at the school, followed by a small group of Southeast Asian immigrant children. There is a small segment of ‘white’ students. But, as one student puts it, perhaps hyperbolically, in her reflection on the school: Student: See, Washington is set up like this-Blacks and Puerto
Ricans hang and whites are eliminated. Philip: They are excluded you mean? Student: They are a different class, different language, their
background is different.
