Cultural politics in revolution : teachers, peasants, and schools in Mexico, 1930-1940 / Mary Kay Vaughan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vaughan, Mary K., 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education and state--Mexico--Puebla (State)--History--20th century.

Education and state.

Education and state--Mexico--Sonora (State)--History--20th century.

Education, Rural--Political aspects--Mexico--Puebla (State)--History--20th century.

Education, Rural.

Education, Rural--Political aspects--Mexico--Sonora (State)--History--20th century.

Socialism and education--Mexico--Puebla (State)--History--20th century.

Socialism and education.

Socialism and education--Mexico--Sonora (State)--History--20th century.

Teachers--Political activity--Mexico--Puebla (State)--History--20th century.

Teachers.

Teachers--Political activity.

History.

Education, Rural--Political aspects.

Mexico--Puebla (State).

Teachers--Political activity--Mexico--Sonora (State)--History--20th century.

Mexico--Sonora (State).

Mexico--Politics and government--1910-1946.

Mexico.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xiii, 262 pages : maps ; 25 m

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [1997]

Contents:

Introduction : the cultural politics of the Mexican revolution

Revolutionary cultural policy : the Secretaría de Educación Pública

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:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-252) and index.

ISBN:

0816516758

0816516766

OCLC:

35317894