Acceptance of Indians was finally given in the times of need during World War II. Indian-Americans began joining with America's armed forces, and supporting the financial crisis at home until the war ended. ... In the 1840's more European's began to migrate to California ignoring the fact that Mexicans lived there before. California was needed for the market revolution, so the Mexicans began working in ranching and agriculture. Though the Mexican's did the same work as Anglos, they received around 18 to 40 dollars less than them. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Those who rejected to move later went to war with American governments, and as a result, many were killed. As for the Mexican Americans, they also fell victims to the 19th century U.S. expansionism. ... The desire of white Americans to expand the U.S. territories resulted directly into the Mexican-American War, which ended with Mexico's surrender and led to the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848 and the Gadseden Purchase in 1853. ... According to some legal scholars, Anglos rarely distinguished between Mexicans and Mexican Americans and tended to paint an image of Mexican...

• Word Count: 1187
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

His father was not happy with the way African Americans were being treated so he moved to Mexico. ... When the Great War in Europe had begun, Langston's mother sent for him to come live with her. ... The letter said he wanted him to stay with him in the summer in Mexico. ... There was not much to do in Mexico and he began to hate it. ... He knew if he didn't go to Mexico he would probably never attend college. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Coraghessan Boyle is about two Mexican immigrants who come to America to be free. One of the Mexican immigrants, Candido, gets hit by the car of a white man. ... America is a seventeen-year-old Mexican girl who, through the eyes of Candido, appears to be nave but is actually a very strong individual. ... She is like Rosa Parks during the civil war movement. ... Boyle portrays America as an African American during the civil war movement. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Some examples of this are the relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II, the use of minorities for hard labor at low wages, and especially the lynching of black Americans in the south. ... Today and in Southern California, Mexicans suffer from discrimination, similar to what others have faced before. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

At the time the story takes place Lorain is a small industrial town populated with immigrant: Europeans, Mexicans and Southern blacks who lived next to each other. ... Autumn 1940 The European part of World War II had just begun full force Implicitly Morrison is using the Nazi Regime as a distant background to the novel's events Americans of 1940 treasure blonde hair and blue eyes in both dolls and little girls These features reflects the Aryan ideal The connection is reflected by the three prostitutes Seasons The novel is divided into four seasons, but it pointedly refu...

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• Grade Level: High School

His father, who had studied to become a lawyer, left for Mexico shortly after the baby was born. ... After graduation, he went to Mexico to visit his father, who agreed to pay for his college education. ... His historical paintings include the Migration Series, Harlem Series, The South Series, and War Series. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Thus at the end of his experiment in truth, the author is forced to leave America and move to Mexico with his family, for peace and security. But before leaving he hopes that white racism will not cause black racism, for then there will be a war that will destroy even the good and the innocent. ...

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After a conflict-filled visit with his father in Mexico, "Langston Hughes returned and began writing poetry of distinction" (Hughes 1). ... As stated by Rummel, " He joined the Writers War Board, penning articles for newspapers, composing lyrics with W.C. Handy and Clarence Muse for war blues, sung at rallies- (99). Through constantly writing about his country he almost felt morally obligated to help with the war effort even if in a small way as he did. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Often referred to as the Contemporary Period, the end of the Second World War until the present day represents the span of our last period of literature. ... There are works by Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, and so on. In the years after the defeat of Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire, a dizzying prosperity spread through the United States, while a tense, prolonged, and dangerous global Cold War against the Soviet empire and Maoist China took shape. ... Thus symbolizing what all of America desired after feeling betrayed by the war and the situatio...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

With the end of the Civil War our nation faced a new way of life. ... These conflicts and the beginning of World Trade, the United States and its rise in power resulted in a World War. Although the government claimed to want to stay neutral we eventually ended up right in the middle of World War I. ... Our participation in the war changed everything for the United States. ... Many were isolated in ghettos (African Americans) and barrios (Mexican Americans) and left with very little income or access to things like electricity and decent jobs. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"I promise you I wrote it. I can't tell you more, but read the book, and the piece in the last September's Reader's Digest and you"ll know who I really am" (Griffin, 37). In the book Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin, he tells about his experience as a white man that changes his pigmentation of...

• Word Count: 1860
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

As the Civil war began, the Mormon-dominated territory of Utah decided not to participate in either seceding from the Union or joining the Union army. ... Grant saw the Civil War as a blessing in disguise; they believed that the war would trigger a Mormon prophesied apocalyptic event that would cleanse society and eventually lead to ultimate Mormon control. The war over slavery during the second half of the nineteenth century forced the Mormon Church for the first time in its existence to publicly announce their feeling towards the African race. ...

• Word Count: 3075
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate