HILD 7C Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Luisa Moreno, Bracero Program, Mexican Americans
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Mexican americans and world war ii: 1930s political struggles, mexican american identity and the illegal alien , repatriation and deportation, political struggles across the southwest c. i. Mutual leaning & dependency on each other c. ii. Argued that immigrants had a right to work in the u. s. c. iii. 3. Set the precedent for many other unions c. iv. Cycles of immigration resulted in whiteness becoming a critical element in how mexicans in the u. s. viewed themselves and how they were viewed c. iv. 3. 1930 census: mexicans classified as color, but soon after that began to be viewed as white c. iv. 4. Telegram sent to d. c. to protest classification as nonwhite: ethnic politics on the eve of world war ii, struggles for 1st class citizenship, lulac b. i. Founded in 1929 in corpus christi, texas b. iii. One of the biggest latino civil rights organizations in the u. s. b. v. mostly mexican americans b. vi. Intended as a group to battle the racism & discrimination & segregation against.
