HISTORY 142A Chapter Notes - Chapter article: Murder, Californio, Cultural Assimilation
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Background: spanish in north america usually integrated themselves into native populations by intermarrying >mestizos, lots of social and cultural assimilation, but for most part, indian and mestizo communities fought against spanish colonial leaders and policies, discontent >mexican revolution. California escaped actual fighting of it but they had same social tensions that started the revolution. Most accepted new mexican government though: text about how mexican and indian women related interpersonally and within legal system. It was a capital crime punishable by imprisonment under mexican law: crimes like this weren"t that different from what was going on. Mexican women tended to cause crimes against members of community (including gente de raz n. Shows contentious social and family relations among women of different socioeconomic, cultural, racial groups. Women from landowning families/husbands prominent political leaders had links to power structure while poor didn"t: social hierarchies dated founding of la in 1781.
