Study Guide Exam 2 PDF

Study Guide Exam 2 What was the purpose of the Bracero Program? - Contracted - Positive - Mexicans regarded as positive presence when useful - Program between Mexico and the US allowing migration across the border b y contracted laborers - Emergency Labor Program: due to t...

Study Guide Exam 2 What was the purpose of the Bracero Program? - Contracted - Positive - Mexicans regarded as positive presence when useful - Program between Mexico and the US allowing migration across the border b y contracted laborers - Emergency Labor Program: due to the extreme shortage of farm labor workers due to WWII - Gave “temporary” work permits to millions of Mexican workers - Where able to cross the border legally, settled down in the US - Gave a pathway for migration but not without oppression What does Ocha mean by the “Revolving Door” policy in the US treatment of Mexican immigrants? - recruitment and deportation - period of recruitment (job offers), period of unwelcoming, then leads to deportation [a cycle] - a common strategy between Mexico and the US Which cases signaled the end of school segregation? - Méndez v. Westminster (1943) - 1st Federal court case which signaled the end of school segregation - Alvarez v. Lemon Grove (1931) - 1st successful challenge to school segregation - Brown v. Board of Education How could the “Mexican Schools” that existed before the 1960s be described? - Small Mexican Population - Open discrimination - Ethnic identity not tolerated - Language repression - Example: get detention for speaking Spanish; mouth washed with soap - Poor context for learning - Inadequate resources, poor equipment, and unfit building construction made these school inferior to Anglo schools - School Board segregated the children between Mexican schools and white schools - Policies institutionalized - Slow learners, very capable of mastering manual, non-academic work - Auto-shop, agriculture, cleaning houses, child care How do we distinguish between a primary and secondary source?  - Primary sources: original sources produced during the period of interest (published and not published) - Secondary sources: what historians have written about the past - Example: surveys Strengths of Content Analysis 1. Economy of time and money 2. Reliability (researcher works alone, consistency) 3. Validity: relationship between data and conclusion 4. Easy to repeat a portion of the study if necessary 5. Permits study of processes over time 6. Researcher seldom has any effect on the subject being studied - Example: the content analysis of the comics Weaknesses of Content Analysis - Limited to the examination of recorded communications - we are limited to what is already been recorded Content analysis is the study of what? - study of recorded human communications Manifest vs. Latent content analysis - Manifest Content: the visible, surface content - face value - Latent Content: the underlying meaning of the content - dig deeper to understand the theme What was the purpose of Americanization according to Ocha? - Eliminated the linguistic and cultural practice of the Mexican Origin - Maintain the existing economic, social, and political order in which Mexican Americans fulfilled the role of low wage and subordinated labor - Example: school days adapted to economic/business needs