Don Jose Marias

During the Mexican Revolution, Mexico as a nation torn in many directions, people gave up simple farming lives to take up arms against causes that many of them did not fully understand. Gender roles during the period in Mexico were exceptionally degrading towards women. Having little more rights than slaves and treated as trophies or property more than human beings, women role in society was nothing near that of a man’s. In The Underdogs, Mariano Anzuela highlights the issue of gender roles by continuously illustrating the punitive role of women and their mistreatment. Augmenting Anzuelas work with citations from Oscar Lewis and Stephanie Smith will paint a picture of the degrading gender roles for women during the Mexican Revolution. Highlighted points brought up by Azuela are how men speak with and treat women, women’s place in society, and general disregard for women’s feelings.

     The author of Mexican Lives, Judith Adler Hellman, grapples with the United States’ economic relationship with their neighbors to the south, Mexico. It also considers, through many interviews, the affairs of one nation. It is a work held to high esteem by many critics, who view this work as an essential part in truly understanding and capturing Mexico’s history. In Mexican Lives, Hellman presents us with a cast from all walks of life. This enables a reader to get more than one perspective, which tends to be bias. It also gives a more inclusive view of the nation of Mexico as a whole. Dealing with rebel activity, free trade, assassinations and their transition into the modern age, it justly

First, lets discuss Pubols main argument about California Mexicans having agency and playing a large role in society. Pubols did a great job of using the de la Guerra family as her main case. By examining the sources used by Pubols this family was well known and their records were well kept. In fact, when examining the notes there are two completed volumes translated of the de la Guerra’s family records. I found the research done by Pubols to be extensive and well presented. One of my critiques of Pubols main argument would be this was one family in one city in California. I would have liked to see Pubols expand her argument pass the one family to include several.

These Mexicans knew how to work with cattle and they proved invaluable to the King Ranch’s success. These working class immigrants called themselves “Kineños” or “King’s people”. The immigrants were very important to the success of King Ranch and King knew it. He provided his workers with education for their families and very stable, high paying employment as well as eating and spending winters with them. This is another instance of relatively wealthy immigrants taking advantage of Texas natural resources to support Texas’ economy.

Into the beautiful North, by Luis Alberto Urea, is telling a story of a nineteen year old girl called Nayeli who is encourage by the movie “The Magnificent Seven” to go to the United States with her three best friends. Their mission was to cross the border and recruit seven men to save their town, Tres Camarones, from the bandidos. But she also wanted to bring her dad back home. He and the rest of the men of Tres Camarones went to the United States looking for jobs to sustain their family. The author wants to show how undeveloped Mexican towns such as Tres camarones can cause poverty, lidding to one of the biggest topic now days which is immigration. Immigration is a cruel and hard path caused by

This passages main idea is about a man named Antonio de Montesinos, who stating how the Native Americans are being misused as the Spaniard’s slaves, and how they have mistreated and cheated them. For example the Europeans are trading

The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela is arguably the most important novel of the Mexican Revolution because of how it profoundly captures the atmosphere and intricacies of the occasion. Although the immediate subject of the novel is Demetrio Macias - a peasant supporter of the Mexican Revolution -, one of its extensive themes is the ambivalence surrounding the revolution in reality as seen from a broader perspective. Although often poetically revered as a ‘beautiful’ revolution, scenes throughout the novel paint the lack of overall benevolence even among the protagonist revolutionaries during the tumultuous days of the revolution. This paper will analyze certain brash characteristics of the venerated revolution as represented by Azuela’s

15. What did de las Casas become, and why did his attitude toward the natives change?

“The history of more than fifty million Latinos in the United States is your history too,” Suarez stated in his book. His argument was that no matter how you see it, the Latin culture is part of your life in the US no matter what ethnicity you are. He wrote this book to let his readers learn and know about the Latino history in the territories, where it is now considered as California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. Suarez wants his readers to know that the Spanish culture has been in those areas ever since the people of Mexico City traveled North in search for gold. He reveals this by stating that the first language heard in those territories was Spanish and the earliest land titles were granted to Spanish families (Suarez). Some Americans may not believe the fact about Spain owning part of the land; however, there is evidence that supports that fact. There are literally signs around California, Texas, and etc. that demonstrates the Spanish language. Suarez states that “more Americans unwittingly speak Spanish every day, heading into a Luby’s luncheonette in El Paso, ‘the pass,’ sitting in traffic in San Diego, ‘Saint James’...” (Suarez).

The book is often termed to be ‘oxymoron’ of the twentieth century. The political scenario of Texas is fledged with dominant conservatism. It highly reflects the cowboy’s images, party bosses and oil barons and how they care for preservation of a capitalist’s status (Cullen & Wilkinson, 2010). The farmers were poor and helpless as well as the laborers. They were segregated depending on their gender and ethnicity. The communities were subjected to many different types of hostility, discrimination and social sufferings.

Anzaldua identifies as a part of an emerging new mestiza consciousness and community, which strives to move beyond simple dualistic thinking and endeavors to “act and not react” This important contradiction lies at the heart of Anzaldua’s analysis. “From this racial, ideological, cultural, and biological cross-pollicization, an ‘alien’ consciousness is presently in the making — a new mestiza consciousness, una conciencia de mujer. It is a consciousness of the Borderlands.” (Anzaldua, 1987, 420). Anzaldua’s proposition of the new consciousness mediates social relations, revolutionary social change, and its wider relevance to feminist theory through discussions of the Borderlands and its implications for ‘identity.’

After many years Gualinto hesitantly returns to his hometown where he is believed to bring knowledge and glory as the “defender of the Mexicotexan’s rights”; his childhood friends and people of the community have a great surprise coming to them. (292) Furthermore, life outside of Jonesville had transformed Gualinto into a true American who now looked down upon all Mexicans. Throughout the years the expectation that Gualinto would become a great defender of all Mexicans never died in Jonesville, yet the likelihood of this occurring did perish within Gualinto who had now blocked his anger for justice for his people; perhaps, Gualinto found it too difficult to overcome the obstacles that kept coming at him due to his Mexican descent. Additionally,

In the socialism and the Arts section, Meade describes how Mexico’s artists sought to express themselves through revolutionary art, murals, describing the struggles of different classes caused by ruling class. In the second reading, Meade argues how Mexico was till behind in terms or women’s rights such as the right to vote; this section is also about president Cardenas was able to bring changes and reforms to help Mexico modernize. In the last reading, the author describes the murals and the impact they had on Mexico; murals started out as something the artists actually wanted to do, to a tool used for propaganda by the state to fulfill their own interests.

This novel starts out with Henríquez providing some background information about the main character’s situation through one of their point of views. Chapter one is told from the perspective of Alma, and as the story progresses the reader learns that she is Mrs. Riveras. Alma, her husband Arturo, and her daughter Maribel crossed the border from Pátzcuaro.

The Chiapas Rebellion and the EZLN Manifestos pulled back the veil revealing to the world Mexico’s rural poverty and especially the poverty oppression of the indigenous people. The EZLN had led the first leftist, armed rebellion since the fall of Communism and the break-up of the Soviet Union, a new left had arisen in the Lacandón Jungle of Chiapas. This revolution impacted society because nobody wanted to stand up and fight against the government. They fought for work, land, housing, food, health, education, independence, liberty, democracy, justice and