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

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Backroads Pragmatists POLITICS AND CULTURE IN MODERN AMERICA Series Editors Margot Canaday, Glenda Gilmore, Michael Kazin, and Thomas J. Sugrue Volumes in the series narrate and analyze political and social change in the broadest dimensions from 1865 to the present, including ideas about the ways people have sought and wielded power in the public sphere and the language and institutions of politics at all levels—local, national, and transnational. The series is motivated by a desire to reverse the fragmentation of modern U.S. history and to encourage synthetic perspectives on social movements and the state, on gender, race, and labor, and on intellectual history and popular culture. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PR ESS PHILADELPHIA Backroads Pragmatists Mexico’s Melting Pot and Civil Rights in the United States Ruben Flores Copyright 䉷 2014 University of Pennsylvania Press All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of review or scholarly citation, none of this book may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher. Published by University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112 www.upenn.edu/pennpress Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Flores, Ruben, 1967– Backroads pragmatists : Mexico’s melting pot and civil rights in the United States / Ruben Flores. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (Politics and culture in modern America) ‘‘Published in association with the William B. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University.’’ Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8122-4620-9 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Mexico—Politics and government—1910–1946. 2. Cultural pluralism— Mexico—History—20th century. 3. Nationalism—Mexico—History—20th century. 4. Education and state—Mexico—History—20th century. 5. Civil rights movements—United States—History—20th century. 6. Social movements—Southwest, New—History—20th century. 7. Social reformers—Mexico—History—20th century. 8. Social reformers—United States—History—20th century. I. William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies. II. Title. III. Series: Politics and culture in modern America. F1234.F685 2014 972.08⬘2—dc23 2014004865 Published in association with the William B. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University ...