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

Reading, Writing, and Revolution: Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas

Runner-up, Ramirez Family Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book, 2021The first book on the history of escuelitas,...
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Reading, Writing, and Revolution: Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas by Barragán Goetz, Philis

Reading, Writing, and Revolution: Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas

BD$107.17

Reading, Writing, and Revolution: Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas

BD$107.17
Author: Philis Barragán Goetz
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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. 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.



Author: Philis Barragán Goetz
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 05/05/2020
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781477320914

About the Author
Philis M. Barragán Goetz San Antonio, Texas Barragán Goetz is an assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University-San Antonio.

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