Overview

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Future in Their Hands is a deep history of the politics of foreign education in Mexico, where many influential figures have European or US degrees. Reconstructing the history of student mobility from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century, Rachel Grace Newman unveils the social hierarchies, political languages, and institutional mechanisms that created Mexico's foreign-educated elite. Study abroad began as a private phenomenon for young elites to acquire specific forms of knowledge and to preserve their status. But, as Newman shows, after the 1910 revolution, elites gradually convinced the Mexican state, under the guise of modernizing the nation, to underwrite their ambitions with merit-based scholarships. Student mobility naturalized the expectation that Mexico's sovereignty and development required knowledge from somewhere else. For historians of Mexico and other countries with foreign-educated elites, this book reveals the subtle, insidious processes by which states reinforce privilege through education policy.

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Author:   Rachel Grace Newman
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
ISBN:  

9780520412736

ISBN 10:   0520412737
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   19 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Mexican Elites, Education, and Mobility in an Unequal World, 1876–1910 2. Sovereignty, Revolutionary Nationalism, and Study Abroad, 1920–1940 3. International Scholarships, Merit, and the Right to a Favor, 1920–1940 4. Mexican and US Institutions Building Mexican Expert Cadres, 1940–1960 5. Becario Politics and the Pursuit of Middle-Class Stability, 1940–1970 6. Managing Student Mobility with Science Policy, 1970–1982 Epilogue: Toward the Unreachable Future Appendix 1. Quantifying Mexican Student Mobility to the United States Appendix 2. Biographical Data on Instituto Nacional de Investigación Científica Committee Members, 1970 Appendix 3. Conacyt Becarios in 1974 Notes Bibliography Index

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Rachel Grace Newman is Assistant Professor of History at Colgate University.   

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