Screen LibraryBackroads pragmatists : mexico's melting pot and civil rights in the united states /
Backroads Pragmatists is the first examination of the influence of Mexican social reform on the United States. Flores illustrates how postrevolutionary Mexico's experiments in government and education shaped American race relations from the New Deal through the destruction of Jim Crow.
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2014] ©2014 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Politics and culture in modern america
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http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812209891 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9780812209891.jpg |
| Summary: |
Backroads Pragmatists is the first examination of the influence of Mexican social reform on the United States. Flores illustrates how postrevolutionary Mexico's experiments in government and education shaped American race relations from the New Deal through the destruction of Jim Crow. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | 26 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812209891 |
| Index Number: | F1234 |
| CLC: | K731.5 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. A Symphony of Cultures -- Chapter 2. Shock Troops -- Chapter 3. The Language of Experience -- Chapter 4. The School and Society -- Chapter 5. The Yaqui Way of Life -- Chapter 6. The Sun Has Exploded : Integration and the California School -- Chapter 7. Texas and the Parallel Worlds of Civil Rights -- Epilogue. Pragmatism and the Decline of Dewey -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |