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Kanellos, Nicholas

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El Clamor Publico

By Nicolas Kanellos


 

About the Author:

Nicolas Kanellos is the Brown Foundation Professor of Hispanic Literature at the University of Houston and director of the major national research program, "Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage," that aims to identify, preserve, and publish literary works written by Hispanics. He is also founding publisher of the nation's oldest and most esteemed Hispanic publishing house, Arte Publico Press.

 

El Clamor Publico

“El Clamor Publico” by Nicolas Kanellos, deals with the little discussed, but greatly important migration of Anglo-Americans from the newly developed Eastern districts of American, into the newly acquired California territory. Effectually, as discussed in the essay, the battle for California was allegedly resolved with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and the granting of American citizenship to the native Mexicans that were already in California. However, this essay is innovative in dispelling popular myths relating to the establishment of ‘Anglo-California’ and the disintegration of the Mexican livelihood that had previously existed.

 

Kanellos pays special attention to the rescission of rights within the Mexican community during the early settlement of California by the Anglo-Americans. His essay is primarily concerned with the publication by Francisco Ramirez; El Clamor Publico.

 

Ramirez, who created the publication during this mass theft of Mexican rights, initially began the paper as a tool to create unity amongst the newly arriving Anglos and the Mexicans. However, as the four years of the newspapers life passed, the motive changed from unity with Anglos, to a unity with all Latinos against the Anglo invaders. He advocated the necessitation of Latinos within the State and Local legislatures to ensure that Latinos rights where not abruptly stolen along with their land. Further, he placed a great amount of concern

on the need for stronger and better retention of the Latino lifestyle as it was.

 

Kanellos includes a quote from Ramirez, wherein he states, “Everyone is convinced that California is lost for all hispano-americanos.” This is a bold statement by Ramirez, but unarguably true, as the lifestyle and culture of Mexicans that existed back then, that was reliant on self farming and agriculture, was lost with the capitalist enterprise that was supported by the newly arriving Anglos.

 

The Mexican culture that we are exposed to today is very different than that of 150 years ago. We will rarely find families self reliant upon their own crops and other agriculture anywhere in California, as this trade was lost with the Anglo conquest. (Reviewed by Christopher Beck)

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