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Lexi Keller Intro to Chicano Studies 15 September 2022 Critical Response # The introduction of Chicano studies into school systems was a trying one that has not been successful in reaching its true goal. While Chicanos studies is a requirement for transfer to a California State University, it is not a required as a common core in studies in high school. More students have been attending college, however there is still a large amount that do not go on to further education, that take an extended break between high school and college or drop out before completing a degree. The theme with the first week of this course merely sees the tip of the ice berge of the effort made in the mid 20th^ century for Mexican- Americans to be seen and treated as equals within the United States. The fight for equality does not belong to Mexican Americans alone, however it is their fight that seems the most unjust. Zaragosa Vargas takes us on the journey to the trials of the Mexican-American with in his book Crucible of Struggle. The first few chapters address how the Mexican came to be. The Spanish conquest of South America and the troubles and constraints that were placed on to the natives of the land. Through the “interbreeding” of Spanish settlers, indigenous people, and ‘negro’ slaves, a new caste system had to be developed (Vargas 7). Within this new caste system, ‘españoles’ elites, españoles workers, the type of mixed Spanish, ending with ‘negro’ slaves and captives (López). This is where the first discrimination against the Mexicans begin. While the Mexico eventually won independence from Spanish, the roots of the country had been discriminator to the native people of the land, and the children of mixed race, who came from the rape of captives and natives.
Once officially Mexican, as an establish country and race, they, themselves continued to discriminated against Indians of the land. As they established the territories of New Mexico, California, and Texas they continued to develop their culture as Mexicans. The distance between the Mexico City, the capital of Mexico made it difficult to for the capital to support them, in addition for them to form a sense of nationality, and there was continuous persecution from appointed leaders. c