HIST 151 1st Edition Lecture 12 Outline of Last Lecture I Beyond Black and White II Northeast III Chinese or Mexican Arizona IV Black White Brown Texas Outline of Current Lecture I Texas Current Lecture I Texas a Increasingly Hispanic i Some have been there for couple 100 years ii After 1890 Mexican immigration picks up b Political and economic turmoil in Mexico leads to slow c Explodes w Mexican Revolution i Dislocates ii million Mexican migrates d What Race i Jim Crowed Hybrid status like Asians White ii Watch Americans construct whiteness 1 Actively created iii Hierarchy of rural land owning use 1 Landowners a Land primary means of profit b If you had land you were fairly well of 2 Tenants a Borrowed land b Owned own tools implements animals c Rented land from LO i Grew crop sell it was theirs to sell ii Give portion of proceeds 1 4 to 1 3 to LO d Usually temporary stage i Step on path to social mobility ii Save up money buy own land These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute iv v vi vii 3 Sharecroppers a Don t own land tools animals seeds or harvested crop b Work the land i LO rents tools animals sells seeds ii LO decides when to sell etc iii SC get or proceeds 1 But have to subtract all credit to LO 2 But often ended up in the hole iv Debt patronage c Usually black 4 Farm Workers a Own nothing b Paid a wage hired for particular job c Once job is done have to migrate d Mostly Mexican 5 Divide End of 19th Century 1 Up land values down output a LO have land tenants have crop b Stretches gap between LO and T c Social mobility disappearing d Large of white farmers not making it i Fall to lower racial status ii Fall in economic status lose come whiteness racial status 1896 1 Plessy VS Fergusson 2 Texas Supreme Court 3 With increase of Mexicans 4 Citizenship to voting 5 Couple of polit a Help b Ricardo Rodriguez 6 African Americans not able to vote Mexicans should be counted as Indians a Naturalized citizens voting b What race are Americans 1896 1 Court rules on diplomacy 2 Says Rodriguez can be a US citizen 1848 1 Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo 2 Agreed Mexicans in conquered territory have right to vote 3 Without law would be discriminated 4 Court didn t provide legal definition 5 Mexicans prominent and important a Functioned as white b Some higher others lower 6 More to do with class than race viii White mix race and social hierarchy 1 Education and cleanliness 2 Mexicans and whites go to same schools 3 M 4 Potential for social mobility 5 Social class e Gender i Tom Hickey socialist 1 Interested in working w tenant farmers a Cooperatives unions advocate of interests b Against interracial c Didn t think of Mexicans before Mexican Revolution i Admired leftist rebels Villa Zapata d Noticed ties e Had hard time controlling tenant farmers cooperatives f Mexicans ore eager already trying to work together f Mexican Stereotype i Inherently docile 1 Thinks Mexicans have stronger than whites on North side g WS Noble i Lose claim to whiteness manliness ii Mexican immigrant become manly white men iii Lumping of concepts race class gender