Reading, Writing, and Revolution : : Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas / / Philis Barragán Goetz.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 15 b&w photos, 1 map |
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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