Language has long functioned as a signifier of power in the United States.
Situating the history of Escuelitas within the contexts of modernization, progressivism, public education, the Mexican Revolution, and immigration, Reading, Writing, and Revolution traces how th.
In Texas, as elsewhere in the Southwest, ethnic Mexicans\' relationship to education--including their enrollment in the Spanish-language community schools called escuelitas--served as a vehicle to negotiate that power.
Language has long functioned as a signifier of power in the United States