Unnamed Spanish Authorities in Mexico
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3058
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Unnamed Spanish Authorities in Mexico
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Unnamed Spanish Authorities in Mexico
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
The messenger in Light in August who tells Nathaniel Burden’s family about the "trouble" he got into in Mexico refers to the Mexicans as "them Spanish" and alludes to their animus against “white men” (244). He obviously thinks of Hispanic/Spanish as non-white, but our database follows the practice of identifying both Hispanic and Spanish racially as 'white.'