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

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Author:   Philis Barragán Goetz
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781477320921

ISBN 10:   147732092
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   06 September 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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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Reading, Writing, and Revolution is not merely a book about educational history; it is a trailblazing study on how Mexican Americans have relied on any tools available to create a more inclusive educational system for themselves and their community. * New Books in Latino Studies * Barragan Goetz traces an important and complex trajectory of escuelita history in Reading, Writing, and Revolution, making this book an essential read for those interested in Mexican American educational history....Barragan Goetz corrects a century of history in this book, in showing that Mexican and Mexican American communities have always valued education and have taken on the necessary actions in sustaining the learning experiences of children. * Pacific Historical Review * Barragan Goetz's definitive book bridges a major gap in Chicano educational history...Based on excellent and thorough research, Barragan Goetz's book provides a sweeping, innovative, and pathbreaking history of the escuelitas in south Texas. * Journal of American History * A fascinating history...Barragan Goetz does an excellent job of documenting the existence of escuelitas in the context of public school development, Mexican nation-building pressures, and Mexican-origin community developments...this book is a major contribution to the historiography of Mexican American education in the United States and lays the groundwork for additional work on the origins and development of community-based schooling in Chicanx history. * Southwestern Historical Quarterly * [Reading, Writing, and Revolution] is groundbreaking...a must-read for those interested in education history, Mexican American history, borderlands history, and the history of civil rights activism...like Jovita Gonzalez, who as an educator worked endlessly to teach the correct history of ethnic Mexicans in the United States, Barragan Goetz, has provided an essential piece of work also determined to set the record straight, that is, that Mexicans and Mexican Americans were not apathetic toward education but rather were resolute to furnish one that was free from Anglo segregation and other forms of discrimination. * History of Education Quarterly * Reading, Writing, and Revolution provides ample evidence of how creating an inclusive history for Mexican-origin children in the state of Texas has always been a struggle...Barragan Goetz reminds us of the centrality of women's work in education and their long-lasting impact on the history of Texas. Educators preparing to teach Mexican American history throughout the state, as well as parents wanting their children to learn this more inclusive history can better appreciate these efforts by looking at the escuelita model. They and anyone interested in the complexities and far-reaching legacies of the history of education have much to learn from Reading, Writing, and Revolution. * Journal of Arizona History * Barragan Goetz has provided a significant intervention in the robust and well-respected field of Mexican American educational history in Texas...Written in an engaging manner and meticulously researched, this book will become a foundational text for those hoping to understand Mexican American schooling in Texas. * Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth * A well-organized and well-supported body of work about South Texas' escualitas...[Reading, Writing, and Revolution] is a much needed conversation about resistance, self-determination, gender, and power in a time when the denial and erasure of history resonates today. Barragan Goetz' attention to the collected narratives, and skillful presentation of ideas is tribute to the memory of a people - especially Mexican and Mexican American women - whose work benefitted future generations. * Journal of Latinos and Education *

Reading, Writing, and Revolution is not merely a book about educational history; it is a trailblazing study on how Mexican Americans have relied on any tools available to create a more inclusive educational system for themselves and their community. * New Books in Latino Studies * Barragan Goetz traces an important and complex trajectory of escuelita history in Reading, Writing, and Revolution, making this book an essential read for those interested in Mexican American educational history....Barragan Goetz corrects a century of history in this book, in showing that Mexican and Mexican American communities have always valued education and have taken on the necessary actions in sustaining the learning experiences of children. * Pacific Historical Review * A fascinating history...Barragan Goetz does an excellent job of documenting the existence of escuelitas in the context of public school development, Mexican nation-building pressures, and Mexican-origin community developments...this book is a major contribution to the historiography of Mexican American education in the United States and lays the groundwork for additional work on the origins and development of community-based schooling in Chicanx history. * Southwestern Historical Quarterly * [Reading, Writing, and Revolution] is groundbreaking...a must-read for those interested in education history, Mexican American history, borderlands history, and the history of civil rights activism...like Jovita Gonzalez, who as an educator worked endlessly to teach the correct history of ethnic Mexicans in the United States, Barragan Goetz, has provided an essential piece of work also determined to set the record straight, that is, that Mexicans and Mexican Americans were not apathetic toward education but rather were resolute to furnish one that was free from Anglo segregation and other forms of discrimination. * History of Education Quarterly * Reading, Writing, and Revolution provides ample evidence of how creating an inclusive history for Mexican-origin children in the state of Texas has always been a struggle...Barragan Goetz reminds us of the centrality of women's work in education and their long-lasting impact on the history of Texas. Educators preparing to teach Mexican American history throughout the state, as well as parents wanting their children to learn this more inclusive history can better appreciate these efforts by looking at the escuelita model. They and anyone interested in the complexities and far-reaching legacies of the history of education have much to learn from Reading, Writing, and Revolution. * Journal of Arizona History * Barragan Goetz has provided a significant intervention in the robust and well-respected field of Mexican American educational history in Texas...Written in an engaging manner and meticulously researched, this book will become a foundational text for those hoping to understand Mexican American schooling in Texas. * Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth * A well-organized and well-supported body of work about South Texas' escualitas...[Reading, Writing, and Revolution] is a much needed conversation about resistance, self-determination, gender, and power in a time when the denial and erasure of history resonates today. Barragan Goetz' attention to the collected narratives, and skillful presentation of ideas is tribute to the memory of a people - especially Mexican and Mexican American women - whose work benefitted future generations. * Journal of Latinos and Education *

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Philis M. Barragán Goetz is an assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University–San Antonio.

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