Reading, Writing, and Revolution - Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas (Paperback)

Runner-up, Ramirez Family Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book, 2021 The first book on the history of escuelitas, Reading, Writing, and Revolution examines the integral role these grassroots community schools played in shaping Mexican American identity. Language has long functioned as a signifier of power in the United States. In Texas, as elsewhere in the Southwest, ethnic Mexicans' relationship to education-including their enrollment in the Spanish-language community schools called escuelitas-served as a vehicle to negotiate that power. Situating the history of escuelitas within the contexts of modernization, progressivism, public education, the Mexican Revolution, and immigration, Reading, Writing, and Revolution traces how the proliferation and decline of these community schools helped shape Mexican American identity. Philis M. Barragan Goetz argues that the history of escuelitas is not only a story of resistance in the face of Anglo hegemony but also a complex and nuanced chronicle of ethnic Mexican cultural negotiation. She shows how escuelitas emerged and thrived to meet a diverse set of unfulfilled needs, then dwindled as later generations of Mexican Americans campaigned for educational integration. Drawing on extensive archival, genealogical, and oral history research, Barragan Goetz unravels a forgotten narrative at the crossroads of language and education as well as race and identity.

General

Imprint:	University Of Texas Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2022
First published:	2020
Authors:	Philis Barragan Goetz
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-1-4773-2092-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Students / student organizations Promotions
LSN:	1-4773-2092-X
Barcode:	9781477320921

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