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New Mexico: Mexican-Americans And Native Essay

Resentment toward Hispanics grew constantly from their arrival in New Mexico. Amerindians in the present day are also reluctant to accept Hispanic customs and their traditions have not changed much in the last centuries (Silverberg, 1970, p. 70).

Politics is a domain rarely dealt with by Native Americans in New Mexico, mostly because of the discrimination they risk facing as a result of joining politics in an Anglo-dominant government and because they are aware they have limited chances to occupy a high position in the state administration. The Civil Rights Division has approached this condition and emphasized that the state Administration should not act inequitable toward Native Americans who want to engage in performing politics (CASES RAISING CLAIMS UNDER SECTION 2 OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT). Mexican-Americans have a larger contribution to the New Mexico political scene, even with the fact that their authority is often oppressed by the government (Gomez, 2000).

In spite of the fact that they receive little support from society in dealing with their organizational difficulties, Native American communities in New Mexico succeed in keeping their integrity through the values they promote (Norcini, 2005). Mexican-Americans are also successful in keeping their convictions by employing strong determination and reluctance when it comes to an uncooperative government. (Blanton, 2006)

The New Mexico landscape is a hallmark for Native Americans and Mexican-Americans alike, given the fact that the geographical elements in the area are characteristic for the two cultures. (Blake, 1999, p. 487)

Works cited:

1. Blake, K. "Sacred and Secular Landscape Symbolism at Mount Taylor, New Mexico," Journal of the Southwest 41.4 (1999): 487.

2. Blanton, C.K. "George I. Sanchez, Ideology and Whiteness in the Making of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement,...

Gomez, L.E. "Race, Colonialism, and Criminal Law: Mexicans and the American Criminal Justice System in Territorial New Mexico," Law & Society Review 34.4 (2000).
4. Griesbach, D."Resilience as Resistance: Representing Hispanic New Mexico to the Federal Writers' Project in Lou Sage Batchen's Placitas Stories," MELUS 32.1 (2007)

5. Guillory, R.M. & Wolverton, M. "It's about Family: Native American Student Persistence in Higher Education," Journal of Higher Education 79.1 (2008).

6. Heather Trigg, "Food Choice and Social Identity in Early Colonial New Mexico," Journal of the Southwest 46.2 (2004).

7. Norcini, M. "The Political Process of Factionalism and Self-governance at Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 149.4 (2005).

8. Pinel, S.L. "Culture and Cash: How Two New Mexico Pueblos Combined Culture and Development," Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 32.1 (2007).

9. Silverberg, R.The Pueblo Revolt (New York: Weybright and Talley, 1970).

10. "A History of Mexican-Americans in California." Retrieved August 05, 2010, from the U.S. National Park Service Web site: http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/5views/5views5.htm

11. "Article 23." Retrieved August 05, 2010, from the New Mexico Public Education Department web site: http://www.ped.state.nm.us/BilingualMulticultural/dl08/Article23-BilingualEducationLaw.pdf

12. "CASES RAISING CLAIMS UNDER SECTION 2 OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT." Retrieved August 05, 2010, from the United States Department of Justice Web site: http://www.justice.gov/crt/voting/litigation/recent_sec2.php

13. "New Mexico - Ethnic groups." Retrieved August 05, 2010, from the City Data Web site: http://www.city-data.com/states/New-Mexico-Ethnic-groups.html

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Works cited:

1. Blake, K. "Sacred and Secular Landscape Symbolism at Mount Taylor, New Mexico," Journal of the Southwest 41.4 (1999): 487.

2. Blanton, C.K. "George I. Sanchez, Ideology and Whiteness in the Making of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement, 1930-1960," Journal of Southern History 72.3 (2006).

3. Gomez, L.E. "Race, Colonialism, and Criminal Law: Mexicans and the American Criminal Justice System in Territorial New Mexico," Law & Society Review 34.4 (2000).

4. Griesbach, D."Resilience as Resistance: Representing Hispanic New Mexico to the Federal Writers' Project in Lou Sage Batchen's Placitas Stories," MELUS 32.1 (2007)
10. "A History of Mexican-Americans in California." Retrieved August 05, 2010, from the U.S. National Park Service Web site: http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/5views/5views5.htm
11. "Article 23." Retrieved August 05, 2010, from the New Mexico Public Education Department web site: http://www.ped.state.nm.us/BilingualMulticultural/dl08/Article23-BilingualEducationLaw.pdf
12. "CASES RAISING CLAIMS UNDER SECTION 2 OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT." Retrieved August 05, 2010, from the United States Department of Justice Web site: http://www.justice.gov/crt/voting/litigation/recent_sec2.php
13. "New Mexico - Ethnic groups." Retrieved August 05, 2010, from the City Data Web site: http://www.city-data.com/states/New-Mexico-Ethnic-groups.html
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