Anti Miscegenation History

The Anti-miscegenation History of the American Southwest focuses on how the dominant group makes laws based on their racial ideologies. According to the author segregation, anti-miscegenation, legislation, and denial of citizenship to many were part of the social policies that illustrate how racial ideology was legalized.
Miscegenation Laws that were laws that prohibited racial groups to marry outside their race. Enforcing miscegenation laws was very complex with Mexican Americans in comparison to other racial groups due to the historical racial formation of being a mixed race. Mexican Americans skin tone varied from white light skinned to Black. Mexican Americans who are black are considered Afromestizo, which is a Mexican with black heritage,
The author conceptualized De facto Segregation as a condition that occurs naturally by fact and is not required by law, and De Jure Segregation as a condition that is imposed by law. The author argues that segregation of the Mexican Americans is de facto segregation because it was the product of custom and local administration and the state government in the southwest never sanctioned it. Experiences of Mexican Americans are very complex. They are categorized as white legally but they don’t necessarily benefit by being categorized as white. Mexican-Americans experience school segregation and inferior schooling despite them identifying as white they continue to be treated as colored and their whiteness is used against them to prove that there are not being
The racial categorization for Mexican Americans has changed several times through racial politics from Mexicans to whites in 1848; to citizen but not white in 1897; to Mexican race in 1930; to white in 1940; to separate class from whites in 1954; to an identifiable minority group in 1970. The racialization of Mexican-Americans has been very complex. After the Mexican American War not all Mexicans became citizens, and they were not all treated as whites due to their mestizaje and the wide-ranging variation in skin tone, despite being considered white in a legal sense because they lived in the land that the U.S. had gained from winning the Mexican American War but the whiteness of the Mexican Americans is meaningless because it is not recognized by Anglo Americans in the American Southwest.
The author of Negotiating ethnic boundaries examines the ethnic identity of the offspring of intermarriages because intermarriage with the dominant group is a good indicator of assimilation and how the boundaries soften between the immigrant group in the host society. The author utilized three different approaches the first approach to multiethnic Mexican Americans is a symbolic identity. Where the respondent has allegiance to the culture of the immigrant generation. A love and pride in a tradition that doesn’t have to be incorporated in everyday