Description:
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Covers the story of indigenous peoples of the southwestern United States: Aztl
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Course Narrative
Within this class, I studied Mexican heritage and Mexican Americans, especially the origins of Mexican culture, such as Nezahualcoyotl of Texcoco who is thought to have been an actual person in history but is renowned as a deity in historical religion (see sample presentation). I also studied the origins of Mexican culture and its relations to certain elements of modern culture, such as religion, political construct, and racial prejudice. I explored these concepts from a historical perspective, such as the era from 1900 to 1965, during which the United States had its greatest influx of immigrants, most of whom were migrant workers seeking to escape the Mexican Revolution (see sample paper). I also learned about Mexican Americans, and the important aspects of Mexican heritage and culture in the southwest.
Mexican culture and Mexican American culture has been shaped by the immigration from Europe as well as the unique relation between those of Mexican heritage and Anglo-Europeans. This has shaped a unique history for both Mexico and the South West, for its banditos, the racial separation between Euro-Americans and Mexican Americans and the division in Mexico between native born people and those born in Spain. With this has come a concept of social banditry, which is described in Hobsbawm's Primitive Rebels as "a universal and virtually unchanging phenomenon, [and] is little than endemic peasant protest against oppression and poverty" spurring illegal action for the desire of change (see sample paper).
Mexican culture and Mexican American culture has been shaped by the immigration from Europe as well as the unique relation between those of Mexican heritage and Anglo-Europeans. This has shaped a unique history for both Mexico and the South West, for its banditos, the racial separation between Euro-Americans and Mexican Americans and the division in Mexico between native born people and those born in Spain. With this has come a concept of social banditry, which is described in Hobsbawm's Primitive Rebels as "a universal and virtually unchanging phenomenon, [and] is little than endemic peasant protest against oppression and poverty" spurring illegal action for the desire of change (see sample paper).
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