HILD 7C Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: California Proposition 187, Mexican Americans, Chicano Movement
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Immigration and the 1990s: proposition 187, pete wilson, and the browning of ca a. i. Proposition 187: found unconstitutional, foreshadowed harsher legislative fiats in years to come a. i. 1. Deny public services, such as public education and healthcare, to illegal immigrants a. ii. Wanted to deny services to illegal immigrants a. ii. 2. Mexicans seen as dangerous, violent, gangbangers, criminals, disease- ridden, drug addicts: the san clemente 6 b. i. Case of group of high school youth in san clemente, ca b. ii. Conflict between mexican youth and white youth b. iii. After high school football game b. v. white kids in suv driving fast towards mexican kids b. vi. Mexican kids throwing paint supplies at suv b. vii. Roller pierced skull of white kid and killed him b. viii. 5 of san clemente 6 were indicted and found guilty: retrenchment and resistance, the demographic revolution a. i. Since the end of the chicano movement, the population of ca and southwest and whole us changing dramatically a. ii.
