During World War II, many groups of Americans, including Mexican Americans, African Americans, and Japanese Americans were mistreated during the war. During the war, in the Zoot Suit Riots, some elements of the California press had been portraying Mexican Americans as unwelcome foreigners. ... In fact, these riots took place after World War I. ... Veterans returning from war found it hard to find jobs as factories cut back or shut down. ... Throughout history, America has time and again imposed oppression on different groups of people, be it Mexican, African American, Japanese, Irish, Chin...

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These were namely the Mexicans, and Native American Indians. ... The north and southwestern states, inclusive of Native American and Mexican territory, were not only seen as productive property ideal for superior Anglo-Saxon Caucasian settlement but was also seen as a necessary tool for ethnic domination. ... It is also unfortunate that this westward emigration resulted in wars and uprisings among settlers, Indians and Mexicans, most notably, the Mexican war of the mid 1800s. It also introduced to the west many foreign Anglo-Saxon diseases, which at times were more deadly than the wars they f...

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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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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...

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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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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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