AMST 101gmw Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Mestizo
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How groups responded to the pressures, pushes and pulls of advancing global capitalism. Chicano trans creation - movement between mexican and american culture of a place of opportunity and innovation, not confusion. Mexican origin worldview mestiza/o tolerance of ambiguity/contradiction- to be. Nepantla (id on the midterm) state of being in middle/in between 2 cultures. Mexcianos moved from self-sustaining, rural locales to urban, industrialized, interlocked areas. Proletarianization of mexican people became a working class led to their response to their environment as a class, despite differences between mexican nationals and us nationals. Migratory pattern of agriculture made rural life transient and unstable.