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Learning Capitalist Culture is about an anthropologist, Doug Foley who travels to a place he calls "Northtown", Texas in the 1970s to observe the racial tension between the "Mexicanos" and the "Anglos". Foley observes how differently the Anglos and Mexicanos are treated, how the Anglos are treated with much more respect by everyone in the town. Foley observes a pep rally for the football players, and all of the Mexicano players walk on to the stage after the Anglo players, even the captains, Foley interprets this as symbolic violence and implicit racism. (35) Foley's observations show, "Nevertheless, I observed few blatant incidents of racism, and Mexicano students thought most of their Anglo teachers were "ok" (104). Foley observed at the end of the ethnography that although in the 1970s and 1980s racism was such a big problem, now "extreme racism was gone forever" (147)

Foley, Douglas E. Learning Capitalist Culture: Deep in the Heart of Tejas. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.