Reading, Writing, and RevolutionLanguage has long functioned as a signifier of power in the United States. In Texas, as elsewhere in the Southwest, ethnic Mexicans relationship to educationincluding their enrollment in the Spanish language community schools called escuelitasserved as a vehicle to negotiate that power. Situating the history of escuelitas within the contexts of modernization, progressivism, public education, the Mexican Revolution, and immigration, Reading, Writing,