In Recovering History, Reconstructing Race, Martha Menchaca explains that while the crown had
difficulty finding “pure” Spaniards who were willing to settle in the northern frontier regions of
New Spain, many mixed-race people were more than willing to go, in part because they hoped to
improve their social position. She points out while such “colonists of color” did manage to
improve their lives somewhat by making this move, it came “at the cost of entrenching the same
colonial order that oppressed them” (68). Explain what Menchaca means by this statement. In
what ways did the mixed-race colonists inadvertently support the very ideologies that they were
trying to escape?
it should be 3-4 pages

In Recovering History, Reconstructing Race, Martha Menchaca explains that while the crown had
difficulty finding “pure” Spaniards who were willing to settle in the northern frontier regions of
New Spain, many mixed-race people were more than willing to go, in part because they hoped to
improve their social position. She points out while such “colonists of color” did manage to
improve their lives somewhat by making this move, it came “at the cost of entrenching the same
colonial order that oppressed them” (68). Explain what Menchaca means by this statement. In
what ways did the mixed-race colonists inadvertently support the very ideologies that they were
trying to escape?
it should be 3-4 pages