JE #4

The Chinese Exclusion Act allowed for the Chinese people to be another commodity that Anglos consumed and used up. Meaning that the Anglo’s used the cheap labor of the Chinese immigrants and once they did not need them any longer they took away their ability to immigrate to the US. In creating this document the Anglos made themselves seem superior to this race. The Bath Riots also contributed to the Anglo idea of superiority and supremacy, but yet the womyn retaliated and led a revolt. On page 240, the humiliating pictures depict men waiting to be bathed. The men are stripped down and have to hold a white board to cover their genitalia. The rhetoric f the El Paso Times reflected on the revolt and made their revolt seem comical, claiming that Mexicans were angry because they did not want to take a bath. The image on page 224 surprised me because it reminded me of the concentration camps that were created during WWII in Nazi Germany. I recall that from class that Hitler got his idea of sterilization from the border sterilization that was happening in the US. Anglo Americans did their best to create their sterile Anglo society by implanting policies and creating a sense of humiliation for those that crossed the border. Because of the humiliation that was cast upon the people coming into the US it could be that this led to cultural schizophrenia by relinquishing their identity of Mexicans and transitioning to the idea of being American.