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“U.S. settler citizens expected Mexico’s labor migrants to bow to the settler order. As Victor S. Clark, the first Anglo-American economist to study Mexican labor migration to the United States, explained in a 1908 report for the Department of Labor: “The Mexican laborer is unambitious, listless, physically weak, irregular, and indolent. On the other hand, he is docile, patient, usually orderly in camp, fairly intelligent under competent supervision, obedient, and cheap. If he were active and ambitious, he would be less tractable and would cost more. His strongest point is his willingness to work for a low wage.”38”
― Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
― Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
“Ricardo Flores Magón had been in the United States for six years, agitating for revolt. His followers, known as magonistas, had few resources. They were poor men and women, mostly miners, farmworkers, and cotton pickers, many of them displaced from Mexico when President Díaz gave their land to foreign investors.19 They wanted their land back and they were willing to fight for it. For challenging his rule, the Díaz administration dubbed them “malos Mexicanos” (bad Mexicans).”
― Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
― Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
“RICARDO FLORES MAGÓN LEFT THE 1901 LIBERAL CONFERENCE emboldened. A few weeks later, on March 7, 1901, a new issue of Regeneración hit the streets of Mexico City. It was more daring than anything the Flores Magón brothers had published to date. On page one, they criticized the mainstream press—subsidized by Díaz—as a “social intoxicant that perverts public opinion, making us think that our absolute monarchy is a democratic republic.” They charged Díaz with “doing away with the principles of democracy” by “muzzling the press” and “imprisoning honest citizens whose republican ideas could not consent to Caesarism.” And they named the Díaz administration as “authoritarian and despotic.”1”
― Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
― Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
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