Background
Mabry, Donald Joseph was born on April 21, 1941 in Atlanta. Son of Jerry Leon and Eunice Leigh Mabry.
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The Mexican University and the State: Student Conflicts, 1910-1971
( For decades, the National Autonomous University of Mex...)
For decades, the National Autonomous University of Mexicon (UNAM) has made headlines when its students demonstrated or staged strikes and when the Mexican government responded with force. Few observers, though, have recognized these events as scenes in a larger drama of university-state conflict, described for the first time in this volume. Since the beginning of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, the Mexican state has successfully gained control of virtually every major national institution, giving rise to claims that Mexico is a corporatist state that penetrates all of public life. UNAM, the nation’s premier cultural and educational organ, has belied this claim by escaping the tutelage of the state. Since 1929 the university’s autonomy has been maintained and expanded, principally by UNAM students. Yet there are two great ironies in the conflict between UNAM and the national government. First, the students themselves have seldom recognized their role in determining the university’s ability to limit the government’s power. Contrary to popular mythology, the conflicts have arisen over many small parochial issues, usually limited to student-oriented concerns such as class attendance or examination systems. The second, perhaps grater, irony is that most of Mexico’s political elite have received their training from UNAMtraining in more than academic subjects. The student movements have given political experience and exposure to many who would later become important state or national politicians. Thus, student struggles against the state have often been struggles within the revolutionary family. Donald Mabry has drawn upon previously untapped archives and memoirs as well as extensive biographical data and other sources to piece together and interpret over sixty years of student politics and their role in the university-state conflict. The result is a myth-dispelling, comprehensive analysis important not only for those interested in Mexican history by also for those concerned with student politics, with relations between the state and its institutions, and with the role of the university in society.
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Neighbors--Mexico and the United States: Wetbacks and Oil
(Book by Schafer, Robert Jones, Mabry, Donald)
Book by Schafer, Robert Jones, Mabry, Donald
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Donald Joseph Mabry
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Education
Bachelor, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, 1963; Master of Education, Bowling Green State University, 1964; Doctor of Philosophy, Syracuse University, 1970.
Career
Instructor, St. Johns River Community College, Palatka, Florida, 1964-1967; research assistant finance aid, Syracuse (New York) U., 1967-1968; teaching fellow in history, Syracuse (New York) U., 1968-1969; Maxwell fellow, Syracuse (New York) U., 1969-1970; visiting lecturer department history, Syracuse (New York) U., 1969, 70; assistant to chancellor, U. Kansas, Lawrence, 1978-1979; from. assistant professor to professor department history, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, since 1970; assistant to president, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, 1979-1981; associate dean for budget and research, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, since 1991; now director, associate dean, Biological Physical Sciences Research Institute, Mississippi State, Mississippi. Senior fellow Center for International Security and Strategic Studies, Mississippi State University, since 1981.
Achievements
Works
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The Mexican University and the State: Student Conflicts, 1910-1971
( For decades, the National Autonomous University of Mex...)
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Neighbors--Mexico and the United States: Wetbacks and Oil
(Book by Schafer, Robert Jones, Mabry, Donald)
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The Mexican University and the State: Student Conflicts, 1910-1971
Membership
Member American Council on Education (Executive Committee Council of Fellows 1980-1983), South Eastern Council on Latin American Studies.
Interests
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Married Susan Strong Johnston, July 28, 1962 (divorced October 1986). Children: Scott, Mark. Married Paula Ann Crockett, December 18, 1992.
