CHICANO/LATINO COMMUNITIES

chicano/latino communities

chicano/latino communities

There have been many forms of prejudice and discrimination that people of Mexican origin of Santa Paula, California, the small agricultural community located 60 miles northeast of Los Angeles, suffered from the late nineteenth century.

Although Menchaca is not the first to argue that Mexicans in Southern California suffered considerably as a result of racist Anglo American, its use of ethnographic and historical sources, both strengthens and broadens our understanding of how racist and discriminatory practices occur, and over time have become institutionalized.

There were some forms of discrimination, which in Santa Paula took the second half of the nineteenth ...