Forgotten People: A Study of New Mexicans (Repr of 1940 Ed) (Historians of the Frontier and American West)

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Published initially in 1940, Forgotten Other folks is a classic of Depression-era social protest scholarship. Instantly challenging Turnerian frontier history, Sanchez argues that conquest, marginalization, and impoverishment have dominated the history of Spanish-speaking New Mexicans because the Mexican-American War. Ninety years of social and economic marginalization defined Mexican-Americans as a distinct indigenous group. Anglo educational systems culturally discriminated against Spanish-speaking children, even as federal and state land policy economically strangled New Mexican families. Focusing his study on Taos County, New Mexico, all through 1938 and 1939, Sanchez holds that the government will have to recognize the original history and place of Spanish-speaking citizens within the Southwest and create educational and economic programs to empower and acculturate them.

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