A friend of yours is reading about the experiences of Mexican Americans in the Southwestern United States in the pre-Civil Rights era. While investigating, the scholar finds that Mexican Americans...

A friend of yours is reading about the experiences of Mexican Americans in the Southwestern United States in the pre-Civil Rights era. While investigating, the scholar finds that Mexican Americans were denied the right to vote and barred from private and public accommodations such as hotels, restaurants, bus station waiting rooms, public pools, and bathrooms. Penalties for violating laws were also exacted against them differently than they were against white Americans. What modern term would you suggest your friend use to make sense of these policies and practices?