 ... the Congressional debate revealed again the then current preoccupation with race. Congressman John Box of Texas, who sponsored a bill in 1926 to include the Western Hemisphere countries under the quota law, stated that Mexican immigrants were "illiterate,...  Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Powerlessness: Who are the migrants? - Pagina 2290de United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Migratory Labor - 1970 - 6316 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | United States U. S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Immigration - 1928 - 200 pagini
...Congressional Record : The Mexican peon is a mixture of Mediterranean-blooded Spanish peasant with low-grade Indians who did not fight to extinction but submitted and multiplied as serfs. Into that was fused much negro slave blood. This blend of low-grade Spaniard peonized Indian,... | |
 | David G. Gutiérrez - 1995 - 356 pagini
...characterized the "Mexican peon" as "a mixture of Mediterranean -blooded Spanish peasants with low-grade Indians who did not fight to extinction but submitted and multiplied as serfs. . . . This blend of low-grade Spaniard, peonized Indian, and negro slave mixe[d] with negroes,... | |
 | David Gregory Gutiérrez - 1996 - 306 pagini
...few went so far as to argue that only the most unfit of Mexico's native population, those "low-grade Indians who did not fight to extinction but submitted and multiplied as serfs," had survived the Spanish conquistadores."' And now their progeny was inundating the United... | |
 | David M. Reimers - 1998 - 228 pagini
...unclean, peon masses" who came from a "mixture of Mediterranean-blooded Spanish peasants with low-grade Indians who did not fight to extinction but submitted and multiplied as serfs." He wanted no part of Mexicans who created the "most insidious and general mixture of white,... | |
 | Ian F. Haney L pez - 2009 - 358 pagini
...us governing them, they, by their votes, will govern MS."U Congressman John Box opined that Mexicans were a "mixture of Mediterranean-blooded Spanish peasants...fight to extinction but submitted and multiplied as serfs."14 Similar opinions permeated the popular press. The Cincinnati Herald warned its readers of... | |
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