HILD 7C Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mexican Americans, John J. Pershing, Plan Of San Diego
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Race and revolution: race, labor, and more violence in the 19th century borderlands, relational racism: the experiences of one group can dramatically impact and help determine the experience, polices, and the way other groups are talked about a. i. We must recognize the longer history in which racial experiences & perspectives have been intertwined: after 1848: mexican american identity being developed b. i. Black slaves in texas: population continued to grow (cotton industry) e. ii. After emancipation: black slaves still at bottom of social ladder e. iii. Blacks, mexicans, poor whites competed with one another e. iii. 1. Used to keep price of labor down & limit unrest from lower classes e. iv. 1900: blacks largest minority population in texas e. v. Racial conflicts & tensions continuing to grow: rise of chinese and japanese labor f. i. After 1848, chinese immigration and populations in california & across the west increase dramatically f. ii. 1851: gold rush beginning to take off, 4000 chinese in california f. iii.
