Question: Considering the arguments in the readings listed below, how did ideologies of race, gender, and sexuality construct colonialist and settler colonialist perceptions about Indigenous and Chicana/o people and place? Remember to distinguish between the Spanish and American periods.
Use the following readings to support your discussion: • Castafieda, "Presidarias y Pobladoras: The Journey North and Life in Frontier California" • Sanchez, "Rancho Life in Alta California" • Gonzalez- "Lupe's Song: The Origins of Mexican Woman Hating in the United States" • Carrigan and Webb, "Lynching of People of Mexican Origin or Descent in the United States" • Saavedra, Ch. 5 The Age of Transformation from Pasadena Before the Roses
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