Cultural Politics in Revolution Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1930-1940

Name: Cultural Politics in Revolution Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1930-1940
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ISBN: 9780816516766

ISBN-10: 0816516766

ISBN-13: 9780816516766

Edition: 2nd

Authors: Mary Kay Vaughan, Vaughan

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When Indian communities of Chiapas, Mexico,rose in armed rebellion in 1994, they spoke boldly of values, rights, identities, and expectations. Their language struck a chord for most Mexicans, for it was the cultural legacy of the Revolution of 1910. Of all the accomplishments of the Mexican Revolution, its cultural achievements were among its most important. The Revolution's cultural politics accounts in part for the relative political stability Mexico enjoyed from 1940 through 1993 and underlies much of the discourse accompanying the tumultuous transitions in that country today. To show the significance of this facet of the Revolution, Mary Kay Vaughan here analyzes the educational effort…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication date: 3/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 262
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.29" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction: The Cultural Politics of the Mexican Revolution



Revolutionary Cultural Policy: the Secretaria de Educacion Publica



Translating Cultural Policy: The Mobilization of Federal Teachers in Puebla and Sonora



"On the Blackboard, No Cow Ever Died": Campesino Duels With Schools in Revolutionary Tecamachalco



"Good Day, Pistol! Where Are You Taking That Teacher?" Socialist Education in Zacapoaxtla



"Educated by Bullets": The Yaquis of Sonora, the Mexican School, and the Mexican State



Weaving Fantasies of Modernity, Eating "Tortillas Filled With Faith": The Cultural Politics of Schooling in a Sonoran Immigrant Society



Conclusion: The School, Hegemony, and Civil Society


Notes


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Index