The term generally refers to people of Anglo-Saxon descent, especially in the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand. However, in the Southwestern parts of the United States, "Anglo" is often used synonymously with "white" to indicate any persons who are not of Native or Hispanic origin. In the context of the history of the Southwest, the term has strong political and colonial connotations, as Anglos--or white Americans--were the most recent arrivals to the region and brought with them a dominant new order, under-girded by Manifest Destiny and the politics of racial and class difference inherent within colonialism, that in many cases severely infringed on the rights, livelihood, and traditions of Native Americans and Hispanic populations who had resided in the area for centuries.
"The union of all three in the life of the Southwest, 1939," mural by Kenneth Adams. Center for Southwest Research, University Libraries, University of New Mexico.
Adams, David Wallace and Crista DeLuzio
2012 On the Borders of Love and Power: Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American Southwest. University of California Press.
Hernández, Bernadine Marie
2015 Sexing Empire: The Ontology of Racialized Gender and Sexuality in the He,mispheric SDuthwest through Mexican American and Chicana Narrative. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, San Diego.
Huizar-Hernández, anita E.
2013 The Present Past: Recovering Native American, Mexican-American, and Anglo Narratives of Territorial Arizona. MA thesis, University of California, San Diego.
Merriam-Webster Online
2014 Anglo. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anglo, accessed December 4, 2014.