Essays on Anglos

Ann Swidler coined the tool kit theory to note the influence that culture has on the shaping various habits, styles and skills that people use in the construction of strategies of actions and decision-making (Swidler 273). The theory is based on the notion of culture as something that can be used as a tool to make sense of the world. There are two models under the toolkit theory that show cultural influence i.e. the settled and unsettled cultural periods. It is imperative to note that in settled periods, culture individualistically affects action through the provision of resources that individuals ...

Montejano in his article, “Anglos and Mexicans in the first century,” describes the repercussions of America’s deteriorating space in the entrepreneurial global-system for the newly accomplished public accommodation between Chicano intermediate class representatives and the Anglo trade in the Southwest (Montejano 2). Montejano further explores the issue of ethnic relations in the United States and views it as the primary cause of economic stagnation in the nation (4).He argues that the contemporary racial condition is characterized by political integration which he describes as the giving way of operational nationality to the Mexican American (5). In addition, the ...

Introduction

The Texas Revolution started in October 1835 with Gonzales’s battle and ended on April 21, 1836, with San Jacinto’s battle. Rogers states, “During the early 1800s, Mexico invited Americans to settle in Texas” (4). Mexico had hope that the settlers would develop the northern part of Mexico. Life in America was so hard that many Americans moved with their slaves to Texas. Even though there were some of the Mexican- born settlers that moved to Texas, a majority of the settlers were from America. There were too many Americans in Texas that it worried the Mexican leaders. ...