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from many one indians peasants borders and education in callista mexico 1924 1935
from many one examines the calles governments 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 nation building programs met with varying degrees of success . not surprisingly his new educational policies sparked a good deal of backlash among those affected . andrae maraks analysis focuses on three main incidents which caused the most contention the establishment of frontier schools along the border in order to promote nationalism and protect against the onslaught of u.s. cultural and economic imperialism ; the takeover of state primary schools by government inspectors in chihuahua ; and the governments indigenous assimilation program which aimed to integrate numerous culturally distinct groups into a monocultural mexican nation .