Answer these question in two full pages.

No outside sources can be used as quotes. response must use at least three direct quotes . Citations must all be using ASA style use the two books that I have attached for sources.Much of the Mexican American history within the region of Southern California has been oversimplified through constructions of nationalism. How has the historiography of Mexican Americans been shaped by different actors, organizations and institutions? How does the activism of Mexican Americans contend with mechanisms of the carceral state in order to push back against pathologies?