Reading, writing, and revolution : escuelitas and the emergence of a Mexican American identity in Texas /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Barragán Goetz, Philis M., author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Austin : University of Texas Press, 2020.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Mexicans -- Education -- Texas -- History. Mexican American children -- Education -- Texas -- History. Public schools -- Texas -- History. Educational equalization -- Texas -- History. Education and state -- Texas -- History. Education and state. Educational equalization. Mexican American children -- Education. Mexicans -- Education. Public schools. Texas. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12591571

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ISBN:	9781477320938 1477320938
Notes:	Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 11, 2020).
Summary:	"From 1880 to 1940, ethnic Mexicans enrolled their children in both public schools and escuelitas (little schools)-"two contradictory educational traditions with mutually exclusive messages," Philis Barragán Goetz writes. Texas public school administrators believed that you could not live in the United States and be a citizen if you did not speak English and demonstrate a familiarity with the laws of the country. Mexican consuls and many upper class Mexican nationals, on the other hand, believed that "the residents of this Mexican colony had a responsibility to keep the true Mexico alive in the United States." Each side demanded that ethnic Mexicans choose the country to which they would belong, scoffing at the notion of anything in between. In this history of escuelitas in Texas, Barragán Goetz marshals deep archival and oral history research to show how, for many decades, numerous ethnic Mexicans did choose something in between, and how the escuelita model slowly transformed to meet the needs of Mexican Americans"--
Other form:	Print version: Barrágan Goetz, Philis. Reading, Writing, and Revolution : Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas. Austin : University of Texas Press, ©2020

Table of Contents:

Intro
Introduction. Escuelitas, Literacy, and Imaginary Dual Citizenship
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

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