Mexicans in America

I.          Introduction

II.         Spanish Origins

A.  Conquest and Racial Hierarchy
            B.  Missionization

III.       The Rancho Era

A.  Californio Society

IV.       American Annexation

A.  Texas and California
            B.  The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)

V.        Case Study:  California

A.  Racial Ideology
                        1.  Collective Identity:  White
                        2.  Economic Competition
            B.  California 's First Constitution
                        1.  "Free" State and Free Blacks
            C.  Mexicans
                        1.  Lower-class Mexicans
                                    a.  Suffrage and the "Greaser Act" of 1855
                        2.  Californio Elite
                                    a.  Dwindling Influence
                                    b.  Land Titles
            D.  Santa Fe , New Mexico

VII.      A Mexican Proletariat

A.  Low Wage Labor
            B.  Resistance and Mutualistas