Educating the Enemy: Teaching Nazis and Mexicans in the Cold War Borderlands

Educating the Enemy: Teaching Nazis and Mexicans in the Cold War Borderlands
ISBN-10
0226815978
ISBN-13
9780226815978
Category
Education
Pages
209
Language
English
Published
2022-02-25
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
Jonna Perrillo

Description

In Educating the Enemy, Jonna Perrillo not only tells this fascinating story of Cold War educational policy, she draws an important comparison to another population of children in the El Paso public schools who received dramatically different treatment: Mexican Americans. Like everywhere else in the Southwest, Mexican children in El Paso were segregated into "Mexican" schools, as opposed to the"American" schools the German students attended. In these "Mexican" schools, children were penalized for speaking Spanish, which,because of residential segregation, was the only language all but a few spoke. They also prepared students for menial jobs that would keep them ensconced in Mexican American enclaves. .

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