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Lone Star A significant theme in Lone Star is history. Too often history can become a burden; it can mean to us what we narrowly allow it to mean. Humans have often felt compelled to act as if they are influenced only from the past rather than from the present. Express your thoughts and feelings, regarding this statement. Be sure to offer examples.

Lone Star (1996) is a film about a colonized region in the borderlands of the Southwest, which were annexed to the United States under the provisions of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. When Abraham Lincoln was in Congress, he described the Mexican War as an act of aggression and conquest against a sovereign nation, and many people at that time and later agreed with him. As a result of the war, the northern half of Mexico was incorporated into the United States, including Colorado, New Mexico, California and South Texas. In this borderland that John Sayles named "Frontera" and "Rio County" a "corrupt and racist system tries to enforce its legal and social boundaries, as well as its empire" (Torres 105). This region of the country has always been notoriously corrupt, as exemplified by how Lyndon Johnson won his senatorial election in 1948 thanks to the fake ballots provided by the Anglo political boss of south Texas, and was known to his colleagues as 'Landslide Lyndon'. In the movie, the system is enforced by a succession of patriarchs and bosses like Charlie Wade and Buddy Deeds, who assumed power after murdering Wade and burying his remains on the old army base. His son Same Wade succeeds him as sheriff, but the old Anglos regard him as too uncertain and troubled, and describe him as "all hat and no...

Aside from the small Anglo ruling elite, typified by sheriffs like the brutally racist Charlie Wade and his "subtle but every bit as controlling successor Buddy Deeds, light-skinned, middle and upper class Mexicans have always looked down upon the darker and more indigenous-appearing lower classes (Torres 107). This is hardly unique to Texas, of course, but reflects the caste system in Mexico and the rest of Latin America going back to the original conquest. Mercedes describes herself as white of 'Spanish' and despises the 'Indians' and lower class migrants from Mexico, and can aspire to upper class status because of the restaurant that she owns. To be sure, she originally was an undocumented worker as well and only obtained the capital to open the business because of her secret affair with Buddy Wade. Sam's successor as sheriff will be another light-skinned, middle-class Mexican-American who shares the same values as the dominant Anglo culture and can be counted on to uphold the "existing power structure" (Torres 108). For the lower class Mexicans, discrimination and segregation are the norm, symbolized by the destruction of one of their communities called Perdido (lost) in order to make an artificial lake for the enjoyment of the town's elite.
Question 2. The Border that separates the United States from Mexico is less a physical reality than it is a political one. The border is also a psychological reality.…

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Lone Star. Director: John Sayles. Producers: Columbia Pictures; Castle Rock Entertainment. USA, 1996.

Lone Star Lecture Notes, 2011.

Torres, Eden F. Chicana without Apology: The New Chicana Cultural Studies. Routledge, 2003.
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