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David G. García
"Reading, Writing, and Revolution makes a major contribution to our understanding of the origins and political development of escuelitas in Texas—their founders, teachers, and curriculum. This engaging historical narrative reveals, with incredible detail and nuance, evidence of the Mexican community’s long-standing efforts for self-determination and their struggles to provide their children with the best education possible, on their own terms."
David G. García
Reading, Writing, and Revolution makes a major contribution to our understanding of the origins and political development of escuelitas in Texas—their founders, teachers, and curriculum. This engaging historical narrative reveals, with incredible detail and nuance, evidence of the Mexican community’s long-standing efforts for self-determination and their struggles to provide their children with the best education possible, on their own terms.
Cynthia E. Orozco
Reading, Writing, and Revolution situates escuelitas (little schools) as alternative spaces that disrupted the Anglicizing hegemonic institutions of US schools. Mexican Americans revered education and offered racial uplift in these schools, which were based on ethnic self-determination during an era of racial exclusion and segregation. Barragán Goetz recasts Mexican American women as, simultaneously, teachers and revolutionary leaders confronting patriarchy. Merging US and Mexican history, this detailed, well-researched work is the first major study of escuelitas as tools of Mexican American empowerment in the Southwest.
Carlos Kevin Blanton
Reading, Writing, and Revolution is the freshest, most innovative scholarship in Chicana/o history to appear in some time. Until now, the history of escuelitas has remained elusive and not extensively documented. Through the creative use of untapped, stellar primary documents and oral histories combined with a tremendous ingenuity of interpretation, Philis Barragán Goetz reconstructs both the local history and the international roots of the escuelitas of Texas. In doing so, she sheds new light upon the whole of the field.
David G. García
"Reading, Writing, and Revolution makes a major contribution to our understanding of the origins and political development of escuelitas in Texas—their founders, teachers, and curriculum. This engaging historical narrative reveals, with incredible detail and nuance, evidence of the Mexican community's long-standing efforts for self-determination and their struggles to provide their children with the best education possible, on their own terms."
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