During the Mexican War, Americans radically transformed their ideas about Mexicans
and Mexican-Americans. The Mexican War offered itself up as the first of such interactions
between the neighboring republics. The Mexican during the War was met largely with criticism
from the American public, a criticism aided by the work of the press. While a vast majority of
the presses disparaged the Mexican populace on a variety of subjects, not all papers denigrated
the Mexicans as some inferior population in need of assistance from the United States in order to
survive and reach a proper level of civilization. Papers such as the Catholic and abolitionist
presses sought to portray the Mexican in a more positive light. Analysis of these spheres of
influence of the various presses offers up a genesis of the Mexican within the American
imagination.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ndsu.edu/oai:library.ndsu.edu:10365/26540 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Ystebo, Derek |
| Publisher | North Dakota State University |
| Source Sets | North Dakota State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text/thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | NDSU Policy 190.6.2, https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf |
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