Americanos tended to use terms like white inhabitant, American citizen, and Anglo Saxon interchangeably, in an attempt to tie American citizenship to the entitled trait of whiteness and put themselves over Mexicanos (Valerio-Jimenez, 232). They also marked those with darker skin as Mexican Texans as non citizens, and poor Mexicans as degenerates (Valerio-Jimenez, 234). Social structures and social hierarchies also provided a way for how people were classified and therefore how they ended up being
Americanos tended to use terms like white inhabitant, American citizen, and Anglo Saxon interchangeably, in an attempt to tie American citizenship to the entitled trait of whiteness and put themselves over Mexicanos (Valerio-Jimenez, 232). They also marked those with darker skin as Mexican Texans as non citizens, and poor Mexicans as degenerates (Valerio-Jimenez, 234). Social structures and social hierarchies also provided a way for how people were classified and therefore how they ended up being