Mexican People Living In Texas In The 1930's

Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, is an analysis of the Anglo-Mexican

When Spaniards colonized California, they invaded the native Indians with foreign worldviews, weapons, and diseases. The distinct regional culture that resulted from this union in turn found itself invaded by Anglo-Americans with their peculiar social, legal, and economic ideals. Claiming that differences among these cultures could not be reconciled, Douglas Monroy traces the historical interaction among them in Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California. Beginning with the missions and ending in the late 1800s, he employs relations of production and labor demands as a framework to explain the

Those words are volatile when it comes to the Texas audience, and these articles that point at Mexicans instead of slaveholders for slave resistance are useful in the defense of extralegal violence. Because of these articles, Texas slaveholders feel like they can conceal how unhappy their slaves are and claim that Anglo Texans are victims. Later in the aforementioned passage from Carrigan, he explains that Anglo Texans suggested that outside forces convinced slaves to have an uprising, which gave slaveholders the justification they needed to use extralegal violence to limit slave resistance.

The resettlement to texas happen in two stages from 1821 to 1828 between the Tejanos and Angelo migrants .Marriages and commerical ties social friendships between the two became common which helped with cultural brokers between the immigrants and the mexican government. The governement need inside knowledge to do contracts with the Angelo- americans and the Mexican officals During this time in the essay “ Political and Cultural Mediator” the Angelo-Americans that colonist to Mexican Texas brought along cultural baggage . Most were slaves that came from slaveholding states notions that applied to darked-skinned

This still did not stop the harassment that the Mexican-Americans endured in their communities. These people still suffered from random acts of violence, deprivation, and forced marches from the Anglo-Americans. At this time, it was not uncommon for Tejano families to be forced to abandon their homes and lands in the old settlements of Nacogdaches, which is now presently east Texas. Mexican-Americans were often forced off their land, their only wealth, so prominent Americans could purchase the land.

The outbreak of World War II, led to many Mexican Americans to answer the call and join the U.S. armed forces. Many Mexican Americans in the Southwestern states joined to social and economic reasons, while others took advantage of wartime legislation that promised them citizenship in exchange for service (Meier and Ribera, 160). Mexican Americans, primarily fought in combat divisions, which many earned Medal of Honor, and there were less racial tensions between Mexicans and Anglos, due to the army ranking system. Mexicans and Anglos, tossed aside their racial views among each other and rather coordinated with each other in the war to accomplish their primary goals. Mexican Americans came home, developing self-esteem and confidence to acquire

A similar resistance to the Texas one is America trying to get independence from Britain. They had to escape the essential prison that Britain had put them in. But, one thing that is different was the two revolutions, is the Texas were on their own. They had no allies that could, or would, help them in the war they were fighting. To the Mexicans, Texans were just annoyances that wanted to rebel and resist.But, the Mexicans underestimated the Texans many times, which ultimately resulted in them losing the war.

The history of civil rights for the black race has gotten much better, but there’s still quite a few issues they have to deal with. Life for African Americans in Texas is better than it was pre civil war. Although things have become tremendously better for them, there are still some changes that need to be made

Hispanics have been immigrating to America since the beginning of the Spanish Colonial era. Up until the 1920’s Mexican Americans have boomed in rural places in america. The 1920’s was meeting the beginning of a renaissance, a better promised life for both native americans as well as immigrants. Businesses were booming, wages were higher, and the industry was creating a bright future for America. However, Mexican Americans continued to face hardships as well as few successes leading up to the 1920’s. Whether these were Native born Americans with a Hispanic background or newly immigrated Mexicans, Mexican Americans faced the hardship of poverty, discrimination, segregation, and struggles during the 1920’s.

Scores of Latino men went off to war by the hundreds of thousands fighting in every major battle in both the European and Pacific theatres. More Mexican Americans serving in combat divisions than any other ethnic group and a high percentage volunteered for the more hazardous duties such as the paratroopers and Marines (Meier & Ribera). Mexican Americans that served gained a recognition that was not possible in civilian life, and through the military, promotion was based off of individual merit. This developed a newfound self-esteem and confidence that would not be wrestled away. They would come home with pride and a feeling of being more 'American ' than ever before. These sentiments leveled out the playing field in the minds of many

In chapter one Conquerors and Victims: The Image of America Forms (1500-1800) Gonzalez talks about the impact upon the arrival of the Europeans to America. This arrival was categorized as “the greatest and most important event in the history of human kind”. Spain and England were two countries that had a big impact on our modern world and transplanted their cultures around the territories they took over. Both countries created their empires in which they established on their identities and viewpoint of their language and social customs. Upon their arrival the native population was outnumbered, many of which live around Mexico’s Valley and others populate the Central Andes region and Rio Grande.

Still another speculated cause for the revolution in Texas was economics. There were many land speculators that were also U.S. migrants to Texas that were intent on making money from selling land. They had speculators in Texas, and Coahuila and financial centers in New York and Philadelphia. The speculators would speculate how much a piece of land was worth then sell it and turn the profits over to a financial center and make a tremendous profit from it.

Between 1940 and 2010 the population of Texas nearly quadrupled in number, increasing at almost twice the rate of the entire United States during the same time. The booming oil and high-tech industries created during these years resulted in mass immigration to the state. Not only has Texas’ population greatly increased, it has become more diverse with the rising number of minorities (Halebic, 2012) Throughout its history, Texas has remained a majority White state, however future demographic shifts may soon change that.

The article “The Cosmic Race in Texas: Racial Fusion, White Supremacy, and Civil Rights Politics” discusses the Mexican American civil rights movement and focuses on the influences and efforts of the League of United Latin American Citizens. LULAC was key in shifting the view on racial fusion and advancing the notion of a world of mixed races. During the Jim Crow era, from the 1920s to 1940s, LULAC combated discrimination and challenged the racial hierarchy of the United States. The author, environmental and Latino historian Benjamin H. Johnson, wrote this piece to “examine the connections between Mexican American civil rights circles and [the ideas of] postrevolutionary Mexican figures (404).” In his explorations of LULAC’s beginnings, Johnson

Tejano, Texans of Spanish and Mexican descent, formed several organizations in the early 20th century to protect themselves from official and private discrimination, but made only partial progress in addressing the worst forms of official ethnic discrimination. The movement to overturn the many forms of state-sponsored discrimination directed at Hispanic Americans was strongest in Texas during the first fifty years of the 20th century. It was just right after World War II that returning veterans joined the League of United Latin American citizens (LULAC) to end segregation. Their main goal was to have equal rights for Mexicans. “According to the U.S Census, tejanos comprised 32.4 percent of the workers in the state and owned 33 percent of its wealth”. (102)