From Many, One: Peasants, Borders, and Education in Callista, Mexico, 1924-1935

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

During his presidency and the period known as the Maximato, Plutarco Elias Calles put in place a series of national educational policie…