Backroads Pragmatists

Ruben Flores

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2014

Backroads Pragmatists

Mexico's Melting Pot and Civil Rights in the United States

Ruben Flores

In the series Politics and Culture in Modern America

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812209891

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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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Ruben Flores teaches American studies at the University of Kansas.

Reviews

"Elegantly crafted. . . . Backroads Pragmatists is an outstanding work that has broad application and relevance well beyond its Mexican-U.S. context to scholars of studies of social reform, struggles over national membership, and political formation the world round as well as of borderlands and transnational history. . . . A welcome contribution."—Hispanic American Historical Review

"A powerful reminder that the one-way intellectual relationship North Americans often assumed for U.S.-Latin American intellectual relations was simply not the case. The influence of Mexican social reform in the United States promises to be of great interest to scholars in any number of fields, including U.S. and Mexican history as well as borderlands and transnational history."—Alexander Dawson, Simon Fraser University

"A tremendously ambitious book, Backroads Pragmatists is uncommonly original and broad in conceptualization and research. The emphasis on ideas and their transnational circulation makes this the most important work on Mexican American civil rights struggles in the last decade."—Benjamin Johnson, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. The Beloved Communities
Chapter 1. A Symphony of Cultures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Chapter 2. Shock Troops Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
PART II. The Scientific State
Chapter 3. The Language of Experience Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Chapter 4. The School and Society Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Chapter 5. The Yaqui Way of Life Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
PART III. Mexico and the Attack on Plessy
Chapter 6. ‘‘The Sun Has Exploded’’: Integration and the California School Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Chapter 7. Texas and the Parallel Worlds of Civil Rights Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	240
Epilogue. Pragmatism and the Decline of Dewey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	286
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 360
Illustrations
- Other: 26 illus.
Keywords: American History; Latin American Studies; Caribbean Studies; Political Science; American Studies; Political Science; Public Policy

eBook

Published: May 23, 2014
ISBN: 9780812209891