ESPM 50AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Wage Labour, Acculturation, Management System
14 Nov 2015
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Lecture 20 hispanos and the commercial revolution in northern new mexico. 20th century hispano experience by late 20th century, north new mexico villages with a loss of land and cultural heritage which leads to loss of access to natural recourses so management systems faded out. *land loss: 85% historically need by hispanos, often common tenure that americans didn"t recognize. Went to speculators or private business people for cattle, mining, or timber extraction. Used up and given to national forest migration, cultural loss, social problems, resistance. Dispossession, incorporation into cash economy, poverty, wage labor, out- ^dependence on fed entitlement programs (assistance) no subsistence resources available (access) after world war 2: exposure to culture. 1846-48: to northwest mexico which lost 1/3 of territory wealthy landowners were welcoming and expecting opportunity. Loss of land, culture, social institutions. of incorporation: assimilation / acculturation. Enclavement assimilation through wage labor, acculturation after 1930"s. Dependency because a lack of capacity for social reproduction.
