Mexican Independence

In Recovering History, Reconstructing Race, Martha Menchaca explains that while the crown had difficulty finding “pure” Spaniards who were willing to settle in the northern frontier regions of New Spain, many mixed-race people were more than willing to go, in part because they hoped to improve their social position. She points out while such “colonists of color” did manage to improve their lives somewhat by making this move, it came “at the cost of entrenching the same colonial order that oppressed them” (68). Explain what Menchaca means by this statement. In what ways did the mixed-race colonists inadvertently support the very ideologies that they were trying to escape? it should be 3-4 pages