When I was in college back in the early '60s, I read a
number of old news articles that were written by a
California judge in the late 1800s about Mexicans and
they were very cruel.  You could actually feel the
hatred he had for us even back at that time.  After
the military take over by the Americans of California,
life must have been very hard for our people.  

Freedom does have a price. 

Alberto Duarte Prieto.
Santa Maria, California

--- Arturo Ramos <arturo.ramos2@...> wrote:

> Ed/Angie:
> 
> Whatever the political status of the American
> Southwest was 
> throughout the 1700s and early 1800s, it was if not
> indigenous in 
> identity, certainly Mexican.  Most of the settlers
> in the area were 
> not Spaniards, as a lot of Anglo revisionist
> historians like to 
> purport by glorifying the missions, etc., but
> Mexicans... Tlaxacaltec 
> colonizers in New Mexico, immigrants from Sonora,
> Chihuahua, 
> Aguascalientes, etc... The original founding
> families of Culver City, 
> California, for example were the Talamantes and
> Avila from 
> Aguascalientes... probably related to some people in
> the group.
> 
> The following book is very well researched and
> provides a whole new 
> insight into the attempted "de-Mexicanization" of
> Los Angeles.  A 
> very good read.
> 
> Whitewashed Adobe : The Rise of Los Angeles and the
> Remaking of Its 
> Mexican Past
> by William Deverell
> 
> Review:
> 
> Chronicling the rise of Los Angeles through shifting
> ideas of race 
> and ethnicity, William Deverell offers a unique
> perspective on how 
> the city grew and changed. Whitewashed Adobe
> considers six different 
> developments in the history of the city--including
> the cementing of 
> the Los Angeles River, the outbreak of bubonic
> plague in 1924, and 
> the evolution of America's largest brickyard in the
> 1920s. In an 
> absorbing narrative supported by a number of
> previously unpublished 
> period photographs, Deverell shows how a city that
> was once part of 
> Mexico itself came of age through appropriating--and
> even 
> obliterating--the region's connections to Mexican
> places and people. 
> Deverell portrays Los Angeles during the 1850s as a
> city seething 
> with racial enmity due to the recent war with
> Mexico. He explains 
> how, within a generation, the city's business
> interests, looking for 
> a commercially viable way to establish urban
> identity, borrowed 
> Mexican cultural traditions and put on a carnival
> called La Fiesta de 
> Los Angeles. He analyzes the subtle ways in which
> ethnicity came to 
> bear on efforts to corral the unpredictable Los
> Angeles River and 
> shows how the resident Mexican population was put to
> work fashioning 
> the modern metropolis. He discusses how Los Angeles
> responded to the 
> nation's last major outbreak of bubonic plague and
> concludes by 
> considering the Mission Play, a famed drama tied to
> regional 
> assumptions about history, progress, and ethnicity.
> Taking all of 
> these elements into consideration, Whitewashed Adobe
> uncovers an 
> urban identity--and the power structure that
> fostered it--with far-
> reaching implications for contemporary Los Angeles.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "aajay1073"
> <aajay1073@y...> wrote:
> >
> > Ed,
> > 
> > Sorry...I have a tendecy to simplfy things and
> generalize...  I 
> fully 
> > understand what you mean.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Angie
> > 
> > --- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "Edward Serros"
> <ed@s...> wrote:
> > >
> > > Angie,
> > > 
> > > As a point of clarification, the independent
> country of Mexico 
> > owned much of the 
> > > Southwest for only a few decades (1810/1820 time
> frame to ~1848). 
> > Spain owned the 
> > > Southwest for centuries. The only reason I bring
> this up is that 
> I 
> > hear the statement that 
> > > Mexico owned California all the time and I am
> not sure people 
> > remember the dates well or 
> > > fully understand the entities involved.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Ed
> > >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 



		
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