Mexicans 07 12 2012 19 35 00 Hispanic Mosaic o Region Hispanic American term meaning a particular group of people from a Central America South America and the Caribbean Makes no sense because Jamaicans Haitians Brazilians etc o Spanish Influence A country once colonized by Spain But does NOT include someone from Spain they are Spanish NOT Hispanic o Mixture of 3 cultures Spanish Indigenous native peoples African You don t have to be a mix of all 3 but a mix somehow o Religion o Language Catholicism is the basic religion But Spanish varies from region to region across Hispanic cultures This long ass definition proves Americans don t know what the fuck they re talking about Mexicans in this country Were here before it was under English rule and don t follow our wave thing none of our Hispanics do Mexicans were here before the second and third sons Spain colonized Mexico in 1521 Spanish colonization vs English Colonization o Spain colonized under the crown the king and queen pay for these expeditions o The bulk of what the conquistadors find belongs to the crown o English colonized as if the natives weren t there or killed them o The king and queen would send over single men and their jobs was to marry the local people s royalty Big because a they recognized there were people there and b they recognized their separate culture An idea of acculturation These marriages produced mixed birth children But those in charge would ALWAYS be 100 Spanish BUT if the Mestizos moved to where there were no Spanish They could be at the top o Hierarchy built from these marriages 1 white full blood Spanish 2 Mestizo half Spanish half native 3 Mulatto half African half Spanish 4 Mexicans 100 native 5 Africans blacks Similar to the American hierarchies based on whiteness 1st Mexican movement The borderlands Mestizos to the borderlands o Looking for somewhere the Spanish were not so they could be in charge o Texas Arizona New Mexico and California Why could the Mestizos go there and not the Spanish o Barren land so the Spanish didn t have much interest in there Plus the people of these lands are nomadic which makes them much harder to conquer o Mestizos don t care and brings The Mission with them to convert the heathen natives The Mission The church in the borderlands Roman Catholic institutional church not just a place for church but social functions and in the case of evangelicals in particular there is health care schooling and food for the natives Mestizos on the borderlands Ranches nice lives 1821 Mexico receives independence from Spain so some Mestizos come back because most of the whites are leaving This means when America starts to expand we re dealing with Mexicans not Spanish 1830s plantation owners start moving west with their slave because cotton grows better the further west you go plus land is extremely cheap but they re moving into Mexican territory The Plantation owners tell the government they want Texas and to kick out the Mexicans However the plantation owners and the government starts offering land grants where you sell discounted land to the point where it s free All you have to do is promise to settle there with their family This way they can build up the population to apply for statehood In 1845 these people ask to become part of the US Texas BUT part of this territory belongs to the Mexicans so they naturally fight back with little battles Extralegal organizations get involved scaring the Mexicans off the War breaks out actually ends up being a training ground for the Civil war 1845 1848 When Americans won Mexico had to give up most of the territory north of the Rio Grande in the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848 pay Mexico a mere 25 million for all that land land We suddenly have 80 000 mestizos that were still living in these territories were immediately granted citizenship as a favor because they were already living there However 2 000 of them looked around saw how Americans treated those that weren t white and decided to head to Mexico No cruzamos la linea La Linea nos cruzo a nosotros We did not cross the line the line crossed us in regards to all Mexicans being illegal Mestizos owned land in America but the WASPs want it so they start illegally taking their land away Mexican deeds are no longer recognized so they sell the land to Americans but as Mestizo money is tied up in the land they can t necessarily buy it back Also extra legal organizations scare off Mexicans or kill them so that their land gets auctioned off Now the Mexicans can only get low skill jobs o Miners carrying away rocks and building the railroads after the Chinese lighters left and Migrant farm workers Mexicans are kicked off their farms and not allowed to work on them because the new owners didn t trust them 1850 Mestizos 1 3 farm owners and 1 3 skilled 1900 2 3 unskilled Immigration to the US NOT our Mestizos they are crossing the borders semi voluntarily Why are they leaving The Mexican revolution A rebellion of the lower class against the upper class 1910 1930 Porfirio Diaz president of Mexico for 40 years stuffed ballots BIG divide between the rich and the poor The rich like him the poor scared voters etc don t o Rich like him because he is for industrialization roads schools mostly for the rich stopping agricultural jobs and moving to industrial jobs He also wants foreign development in Mexico for foreign companies to come down build the factories for him and he will provide low paid workers to labor for a penny a day o Poor hate him because he calls them his Peons He keeps them working many hours for very little money so that supposedly they won t have time or money to rebel If they attempt to rebel the Rurales a private army for Diaz walk around in sombreros and bullets across their chest o 90 Illiteracy rates in Mexico which means they can t fill out Visas to immigrate to America o 1 5 million poor Mexicans move to the southwest states because it s close and they can walk No need for chain migration and whatnot Why are they coming to the US Under the Chinese exclusion act so the lowest paid jobs are no longer being filled We ask them to come place factories on the American side of the border and pay them the same amount as in the states Called Globalized Capitalism Outsourcing We still have the exemptions from Quota acts but they still have to fill out paperwork so we can count them Dr Robbins Give and Take Theory of Economics and Immigration for Mexicans When the economy is good we want Mexicans
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