Andrae Marak

Andrae Marak is assistant professor of history and political science at California University of Pennsylvania and an associate of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburg...

From Many, One
Indians, Peasants, Borders and Education in Callista Mexico, 1924–1935

Andrae Marak

From Many, One looks at the educational policies and practices of the presidency of Plutarco Elías Calles in post-revolutionary Mexico. Marak examines the Calles government’s attempts to centralize control over education in the U.S.–Mexican borderlands region and to transform its rural and indigenous inhabitants into more "mainstream" Mexicans.

Calles's new educational policies sparked a good deal of backlash. Marak's study focuses on three incidents that caused the most contention: the establishment of frontier schools along the border; the takeover of state primary schools by government inspectors in Chihuahua; and the government's indigenous assimilation program.

University of Calgary Press