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Mexican Americans make up the largest minority in Idaho, yet they seemingly live in a different world from the dominant Anglo population, and because of pervasive stereotypes and exclusive policies, their participation in the communitys social, economic, and political life is continually impeded. This unique ethnographic study of a small Idaho community with a large Hispanic population examines many dimensions of the impact race relations have on everyday life for rural Mexican Americans.
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Photo by Richard Baker Ninety-three-year-old Jesuscita Salazar enjoying a Cinco de Mayo celebration.
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Los Dos Mundos
Rural Mexican Americans, Another America
Richard Baker
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS Logan, Utah 1995
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To Estella Zamora, a quintessential grass roots leader who works tirelessly on behalf of the Mexican American community. Her commitment and dedication redefined the concept of citizenship for me.
Copyright 1995 Utah State University Press All rights reserved
Utah State University Press Logan, Utah 84322-7800
109876543297989900
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Baker, Richard, 1941 Nov. 27 Los dos mundos: rural Mexican Americans, another America / by Richard Baker. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87421-184-0 1. Mexican AmericansIdahoSocial conditions. 2. IdahoSocial conditions. I. Title. F755.M5B34 1994 305.868720796dc20 94-28073 CIP
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CONTENTS
Preface
vii
1.
Overview of Field Research and Theoretical Models
1
2.
The Anglo Community of Middlewest
23
3.
Mexican American Culture and Daily Life
57
4.
Mexican American Leaders Defend Their Culture and People
93
5.
The Anglo Working Class and Anglo Farmers
119
6.
Permanent Working Class Mexican Americans
143
7.
Mexican American Migrant Workers
161
8.
Institutionalized Racism as Part of the Exploitive Model
193
9.
The Education Institution
235
10.
Conclusions and Recommendations
263
Bibliography
273
Index
283
Photo courtesy Boise State University News Service A folk dance as performed by Maria Elena Pantoja.
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PREFACE
In Small Town in Mass Society (1968), Vidich and Bensman advanced the thesis that industrialism had progressed to the point where beliefs and ways of life in the United States are becoming homogeneous regardless of region or size of community. Therefore, since racial attitudes may be quite similar in Middlewest, Boise, and elsewhere in America, it is my view that this community study may be able to inform the reader about the state of race relations in America. The small-town setting of this study allows the reader to listen, as it were, to how Anglos talk about a racial minority. Most Americans publicly censor and monitor their thoughts on racial minorities, but Anglos in Middlewest expressed openly what many Anglo Americans think. Anglo administrators did not conceal their thoughts or hide behind the cloak of "client confidentiality," but instead they candidly shared their views and allowed me to examine and observe how the local social institutions functioned. This study, then, allows for a comprehensive examination of how institutionalized racism operates in American society.
The essence of my discipline was revealed as I observed Anglos invariably explain that they were not prejudiced; to them it was just a plain and simple fact that Mexican Americans were consistently abusing the welfare system and represented the criminal element in their community. Through their social interaction with one another and through the functioning of their social institutions, the Anglos had created and were sustaining a social system that implied that Mexican Americans are inferior to Anglos. This belief system had become a self-fulfilling prophecy that relegated and maintained Mexican Americans in a subordinate position in the community.
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