ANT-3451 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Demography Of The United States, Sanctuary Movement, Operation Bootstrap
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Neither: usually hispanics identify by their place of origin or ethnic terms popularized by the u. s, pan-ethnic terms: hispanic, latino. Hispanic associated with spanish hegemony and acknowledging only the. Races di er even with families, uid, physical appearance, social status: hispanic more common in the east and latino more common in the western us. After gold was found in california, anglos moved there and then soon dominated local legislature and passed discriminatory laws against mexicans. (1849: policies include discriminatory taxes, voting rights, and wages. : 1910 mexican revolution increased numbers of mexicans entering the u. s, great depression left mexicans jobless, wwii caused more demand for their labor. Bracero program: fought in wwii but received no better treatment. Sleepy lagoon (1942); mexican american barrios crashed a ranch party, a dude ended up dying and they were blamed without any evidence. Zoot-suit riots (1943); sailors attacked mexican american youth and police didn"t stop it.
