CH ST 1A Lecture 8: 10/24/17
Document Summary
Goes from el paso texas to arizona. Us wanted to build a transcontinental railroad. There would be no illegal aliens if us took all of mexico. First generation chicanos become americans with nothing to do with immigration. Chicanos represent people internally colonized (minority group colonized inside us) In 60"s and 70"s chicanos regain lost homeland aztlan (indigenous mexican territory from aztec era) Lay basis for american civil war (slave states and free states) Leaves mexico even further weakened (economically, militarily, politically), ripe for additional foreign intervention. Early 1860"s french intervene in mexico and try to impose european emperor (cinco de. Much of mexico"s contemporary foreign policy is based on no further intervention. 1962 cuba tried to intervene in us, mexico did not like this. Us-mexico war lays foundation for the rise of the american empire/imperialism. Geography follows history: el norte becomes the american southwest.
