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Montejano argued that the mexican were shaped to be a minority group by the development of socially constructed racial difference between them and higher races in the United States, and depreciating them from job security in higher paying jobs, which is tied to Glenn’s argument of that Mexicans did not came to the United states as a Minority group. Montejano argument signifies how the mexican got from being different from one another in their society by social hierarchy to being all considered as minority in the United States despite their old social class.
American were separated by hypothetical barriers from mexicans that made them believe that they were the dominate race over Mexican . For example, Mrs. millar, an american …show more content…

For example, Montejano emphasized the hardship that Mexican faced with labor by telling the story of a writer who discovered a Mexican man, “ the same old-time boss working for the city with pick and shovels”2. Ironically “He [the old boss] still wore high-topped boots and, and as before, retained the leather hat string beneath his chin” (94)2. The fact that the old boss did not change his clothes even though he is no longer a boss shows that he is not satisfied with his job, therefore, he kept his old clothes as a hope that he will get back to what he was. That can also mean that he got poor to the point that he can not afford new clothes. This shows that although not all Mexican were of a minority group when they were incorporated with the United States, they all became viewed as minority afterword and thus were only offered low paying jobs as secure ones.
Given Montejano argument, Glenn the author of Unequal Freedom, may lend him the Idea of that Mexican were not given “the enjoyment of all the rights of citizens of the United States according to the principles of the Constitution.” 3 As the United States promised in 1848. Glenn’s Idea may strengthen Montejano discussion by showing that initially Mexican were not a minority group and they were supposed to be like the citizens in the United States, but instead the society and circumstances

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