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How does politics influence the establishment of educational (in)equity…

- - - - Socially, Americans did not know how to respond to this new category of person. Racially, Americans disliked the Mexican. Legally, they were stumped. Are they White? By law, “yes.” Should they be segregated? How? No one knew what to do about people of Mexican origin as to their “race” or their “kind,” much less regarding their “strange” and “foreign” tongue and newly-claimed citizenship rights that typical Americans disregarded altogether.
    - - With nearly 4 million Black slaves by then, the country had become so wrapped up with slavery and the Indian “problem” that it seemed to lack the time or temperament to struggle with yet another nonwhite population.