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Sentimental Mexicans in Nineteenth-Century California
Abstract
No es la raza Mexicana diferente de laAmericana para que se crea que solo ennuestro cuerpo se recontaran las enfermedades. (The Mexican race is not different from theAmerican race and one should not think that disease only takes hold in our bodies.) – Mexican Laborers’ Petition tothe Mexican Consul in the United States (quoted in Molina, 67)