Race and national identity in Mexicali, territory of Baja California, Mexico (1903-1937)

As part of my thesis X will be comparing and addressing why the Anti-Chinese and Japanese campaign in the border city of Mexicali, Baja California (which was a territory at the time) was less violent than other Anti-Chinese and Japanese campaigns that happened in the Mexican states such as Sinaloa and Sonora. The chronological order I am going to use starts from the early 1900's when the Chinese and Japanese immigrants arrived to the newly found city of Mexicali. This was because the American company Colorado River Land Company (CRLC) had hired them to work the undeveloped Valle de Mexicali. The chronology will stop to look into the late 1930s, after Agrarian Reform of 1937 known as El Asalto a las Tierras, which was supported by then president General Lazaro Cardenas. One of the reasons why I start my research during the early 1900s is because Chinese and Japanese began to immigrate in great numbers during that period. They began to immigrate to the Mexican Northern states of Sonora. Sinaloa, and the then territory of Baja California. At the same times, a certain number of Mexicans from Mexicali felt alienated in there own country because of the high number of Asians and because the CRLC owned the majority of the land. By understanding the conflicts that race and national identity brought to the Valle de Mexicali from its early days until the late 1930s we can know that both conflicts had similar political ideology but different political agendas.