The Future in Their Hands : Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newman, Rachel Grace.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Elite (Social sciences)--Mexico.

Elite (Social sciences).

Student mobility.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2026.

Summary:

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Future in Their Hands is a deep history of the politics of foreign education in Mexico, where many influential figures have degrees from European or US institutions. Reconstructing the history of student mobility from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century, Rachel Grace Newman unveils the social hierarchies, political languages, and institutional mechanisms that created Mexico's foreign-educated elite. Study abroad began as a private phenomenon for young elites to acquire specific forms of knowledge and to preserve their status. But after the 1910 revolution, elites gradually convinced the Mexican state, under the guise of modernizing the nation, to underwrite their ambitions with merit-based scholarships. Student mobility naturalized the expectation that Mexico's sovereignty and development required knowledge from elsehwere. For historians of Mexico and other countries with foreign-educated elites, this book reveals the subtle, insidious processes by which states reinforce privilege through education policy.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Mexican Elites, Education, and Mobility in an Unequal World, 1876-1910

2. Sovereignty, Revolutionary Nationalism, and Study Abroad, 1920-1940

3. International Scholarships, Merit, and the Right to a Favor, 1920-1940

4. Mexican and US Institutions Building Mexican Expert Cadres, 1940-1960

5. Becario Politics and the Pursuit of Middle-Class Stability, 1940-1970

6. Managing Student Mobility with Science Policy, 1970-1982

Epilogue: Toward the Unreachable Future

Appendix 1. Quantifying Mexican Student Mobility to the United States

Appendix 2. Biographical Data on Instituto Nacional de Investigación Científica Committee Members, 1970

Appendix 3. Conacyt Becarios in 1974

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Newman, Rachel Grace The Future in Their Hands

ISBN:

9780520412743

OCLC:

1587897876