LEADER 05269nam 2200877 450 001 9910787836403321 005 20210510213625.0 010 $a0-8122-2414-0 010 $a0-8122-0989-3 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812209891 035 $a(CKB)2670000000560417 035 $a(EBL)3442522 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001260405 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11710812 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001260405 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11311425 035 $a(PQKB)10589691 035 $a(OCoLC)881137418 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse32973 035 $a(DE-B1597)449861 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812209891 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442522 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11045932 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682640 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442522 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000560417 100 $a20150428h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnnu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBackroads pragmatists $eMexico's melting pot and civil rights in the United States /$fRuben Flores 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aPhiladelphia, [Pennsylvania] :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (360 p.) 225 1 $aPolitics and Culture in Modern America 300 $aIncludes index. 311 0 $a1-322-51358-9 311 0 $a0-8122-4620-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. A Symphony of Cultures --$tChapter 2. Shock Troops --$tChapter 3. The Language of Experience --$tChapter 4. The School and Society --$tChapter 5. The Yaqui Way of Life --$tChapter 6. ??The Sun Has Exploded??: Integration and the California School --$tChapter 7. Texas and the Parallel Worlds of Civil Rights --$tEpilogue. Pragmatism and the Decline of Dewey --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aLike the United States, Mexico is a country of profound cultural differences. In the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution (1910-20), these differences became the subject of intense government attention as the Republic of Mexico developed ambitious social and educational policies designed to integrate its multitude of ethnic cultures into a national community of democratic citizens. To the north, Americans were beginning to confront their own legacy of racial injustice, embarking on the path that, three decades later, led to the destruction of Jim Crow. Backroads Pragmatists is the first book to show the transnational cross-fertilization between these two movements. In molding Mexico's ambitious social experiment, post revolutionary reformers adopted pragmatism from John Dewey and cultural relativism from Franz Boas, which, in turn, profoundly shaped some of the critical intellectual figures in the Mexican American civil rights movement. The Americans Ruben Flores follows studied Mexico's integration theories and applied them to America's own problem, holding Mexico up as a model of cultural fusion. These American reformers made the American West their laboratory in endeavors that included educator George I. Sanchez's attempts to transform New Mexico's government agencies, the rural education campaigns that psychologist Loyd Tireman adapted from the Mexican ministry of education, and anthropologist Ralph L. Beals's use of applied Mexican anthropology in the U.S. federal courts to transform segregation policy in southern California. Through deep archival research and ambitious synthesis, Backroads Pragmatists illuminates how nation-building in post revolutionary Mexico unmistakably influenced the civil rights movement and democratic politics in the United States. Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University. 410 0$aPolitics and culture in modern America. 606 $aCultural pluralism$zMexico$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aNationalism$zMexico$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aEducation and state$zMexico$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCivil rights movements$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSocial movements$zSouthwest, New$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSocial reformers$zMexico$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSocial reformers$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aMexico$xPolitics and government$y1910-1946 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aCaribbean Studies. 610 $aLatin American Studies. 610 $aPolitical Science. 610 $aPublic Policy. 615 0$aCultural pluralism$xHistory 615 0$aNationalism$xHistory 615 0$aEducation and state$xHistory 615 0$aCivil rights movements$xHistory 615 0$aSocial movements$xHistory 615 0$aSocial reformers$xHistory 615 0$aSocial reformers$xHistory 676 $a972.08/2 700 $aFlores$b Ruben$f1967-$01515482 712 02$aWilliam P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787836403321 996 $aBackroads pragmatists$93751249 997 $aUNINA