1. At the beginning of this chapter, you learned that Hispanic Americans “combine elements of the polar extremes [immigrant and colonized] of Blauner’s typology of minority groups” and that they are...

1. At the beginning of this chapter, you learned that Hispanic Americans “combine elements of the polar extremes [immigrant and colonized] of Blauner’s typology of minority groups” and that they are “partly an ethnic minority group and partly a racial minority group.” Explain these

statements in terms of the rest of the material presented in the chapter.

2. What important cultural differences between Mexican Americans and the dominant society shaped the relationships between the two groups?