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Author Barragán Goetz, Philis M., author.

Title Reading, writing, and revolution : escuelitas and the emergence of a Mexican American identity in Texas / Philis M. Barragán Goetz.

Publication Info. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2020.

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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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
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"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Mexicans -- Education -- Texas -- History.
Mexicans -- Education.
Texas.
History.
Mexicans.
Mexican American children -- Education -- Texas -- History.
Mexican American children -- Education.
Mexican American children.
Public schools -- Texas -- History.
Public schools.
Educational equalization -- Texas -- History.
Educational equalization.
Education and state -- Texas -- History.
Education and state.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
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
ISBN 9781477320938 (electronic book)
1477320938 (electronic book)