Anglo-Mexicans or Hispanics?

Paper Summary:

The paper relates that Hispanics in America have, since colonization by the Europeans first began, been fighting for some vestige of their true cultural identity. The paper discusses how the long institutionalized prejudice towards Hispanic populations in America has been a collective hardship in terms of both integration and quality of life. The paper describes the Hispanic population's unity and conformity to Anglo society.

Outline:
Introduction
What is Mexican?
Effect on Unity
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"The question of Mexican (Hispanic) identity is as politically charged as it is culturally anchored. Yet, this dynamic is a reflection of the identity crisis of the Hispanic itself: is it politically based in a policy of perpetual search for redress or is it a cultural identity in perpetual search for itself? Hispanics in America have, since colonization by the Europeans first began, been fighting for some vestige of their true cultural identity always, it seems, against the various bureaucratic and social mechanisms meant to dissociate them from themselves put in place by white America: "The greatest misfortunes of Spanish America are to be traced to the fatal error of placing these colored races on an equality with the white race""

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