Reading, Writing, and Revolution : : Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas / / Philis Barragán Goetz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Barragán Goetz, Philis,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 15 b&w photos, 1 map

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. Barragán 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, Barragán Goetz unravels a forgotten narrative at the crossroads of language and education as well as race and identity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION Escuelitas, Literacy, and Imaginary Dual Citizenshi -- CHAPTER 1 Escuelitas and the Expansion of the Texas Public School System, 1865–1910 -- CHAPTER 2 Imaginary Citizens and the Limits of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: Educational Exclusion and the Mexican Consulate Investigation of 1910 -- CHAPTER 3 Revolutionary and Refined: Feminism, Early Childhood Education, and the Mexican Consulate in Laredo, Texas, 1910–1920 -- CHAPTER 4 Education in Post–Mexican Revolution Texas, 1920–1950 -- CHAPTER 5 Escuelitas and the Mexican American Generation’s Campaign for Educational Integration -- CONCLUSION The Contested Legacy of Escuelitas in American Culture -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX