{"product_id":"reading-writing-and-revolution-escuelitas-and-the-emergence-of-a-mexican-american-identity-in-texas-9781477320921","title":"Reading, Writing, and Revolution: Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2022 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Book Award \u003cbr\u003e Tejas Foco Non-fiction Book Award, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies \u003cbr\u003e 2021 Tejano Book Prize, Tejano Genealogy Society of Austin \u003cbr\u003e 2021 Jim Parish Award for Documentation and Publication of Local and Regional History, Webb County Heritage Foundation \u003cbr\u003e 2021 Runner-up, Ramirez Family Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first book on the history of escuelitas, \u003ci\u003eReading, Writing, and Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e examines the integral role these grassroots community schools played in shaping Mexican American identity.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eReading, Writing, and Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e traces how the proliferation and decline of these community schools helped shape Mexican American identity. \u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilis M. Barragán Goetz is an assistant professor of history at Texas A\u0026amp;M University-San Antonio.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50388622541074,"sku":"9781477320921","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0638c76d-a137-4fb5-9bb3-d24596a0e932.jpg?v=1728903659","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/reading-writing-and-revolution-escuelitas-and-the-emergence-of-a-mexican-american-identity-in-texas-9781477320921","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}