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Flores, Ruben.

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States of culture: Relativism and national consolidation in Mexico and the United States, 1910--1950.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	States of culture: Relativism and national consolidation in Mexico and the United States, 1910--1950./
Author:	Flores, Ruben.
Description:	392 p.
Notes:	Adviser: David A. Hollinger.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-02A.
Subject:	History, Latin American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3254266

States of culture: Relativism and national consolidation in Mexico and the United States, 1910--1950.
Flores, Ruben.

States of culture: Relativism and national consolidation in Mexico and the United States, 1910--1950. - 392 p.

Adviser: David A. Hollinger.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2006.

This project is a comparative analysis of the political and philosophical commitments to cultural pluralism and the growth of the central state of Mexican social scientists between 1910 and 1950 and of the American social scientists in the American West for whom they became intellectual role models between World Wars I and II. It analyzes the reasons why American social scientists turned to the reform projects of the post-Revolutionary Mexican state for ideas about pluralism in industrial society amid the largest aggrandizement of the state in the history of the US republic, the New Deal. First, it identifies the common roots in Deweyan philosophy and Boasian anthropology that allowed the Mexicans and Americans to converse discursively with one another across their distinctive national histories. Second, it describes the professional and personal relationships that the Mexicans and Americans formed with one another across the cultural boundaries of their two nations to show how their discursive engagements broadened the meaning of pluralism in American society.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017580
History, Latin American.

States of culture: Relativism and national consolidation in Mexico and the United States, 1910--1950.
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520 $a The analysis of the commitments of Mexican and American social scientists to cultural pluralism and the growth of the central state is intended to add to arguments in the historiographical literature of both the Mexico and the United States. First, it reveals the deeper appreciation of Mexico's postrevolutionary scientists for the contradictions and limits of state reform projects, in contrast to current interpretations portraying them as colonial ideologues intent on disciplining Mexico's indigenous communities at any cost. Second, it contributes to the scholarly resurgence in the discursive history of the ideas of John Dewey and Franz Boas in North America, first by deepening our understanding of how Mexicans transformed pragmatism and cultural relativism to construct an ethnically diverse nation in the wake of civil war, then by showing how Americans used Mexico's Deweyan and Boasian discourses as platforms to reconfigure the rural communities of the World War II American West. Third, it contributes to the comparative understanding of the history of the twentieth-century American central state, by analyzing why postrevolutionary Mexico became such a powerful example of central planning for American scientists. Most importantly, by analyzing how Mexico's post-Revolutionary social and intellectual history influenced the development of the interwar defense of ethnic pluralism in the US, it reveals how progressive movements in twentieth-century Mexico and the US usually constructed by historians as colonial projects became a liberationist influence on the development of the American civil rights movement.
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