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Mexican American workmen making adobe bricks at the Casa Verdugo, California. In the 1920s, Mexicans met the increasing demand for cheap labor on the West Coast. Mexican refugees continued to migrate to areas outside the Southwest; they were recruited to work in the steel mills of Chicago during a strike in 1919, and again in 1923. [254]
Mexican American men have higher prevalence rates in comparison to non-Latinos, whites and blacks. [220] "The prevalence of diabetes increased from 8.9% in 1976–1980 to 12.3% in 1988–94 among adults aged 40 to 74" according to the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988–1994. [220]
The Mexican-American population in the United States began at the end of the Mexican–American War, when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in 1848. This treaty resulted in Mexico relinquishing the present-day states to the United States: New Mexico, Nevada, parts of Arizona, Utah, Texas, and California.
As Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard prepares to retire after 30 years in Congress, the California Democrat and first Mexican American woman elected to Congress is reflecting on a trailblazing career and ...
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on February 2, 1848, marked the end of the Mexican–American War. In that treaty, the United States agreed to pay Mexico $18,250,000; Mexico formally ceded California (and other northern territories) to the United States, and a new international boundary was drawn; San Diego Bay is the only natural ...
I was probably 4 years old the first time anyone called me “mi’jo,” colloquial Spanish for “my son.” My Mexican American family lived in the front house on a two-unit lot on the east ...
The Huelga Barnstar, for significant contributions to Mexican American and Chicano (and Hispanic and Latino American) related articles or projects. "Huelga" means "strike", and is the name of the bird on the United Farm Workers flag, a symbol of Chicano culture in the US, and the most commonly recognized image related to the Mexican American ...
A Mexican man who was arrested by U.S. immigration agents in 2017 despite his participation in a program designed to protect those brought to the U.S. illegally as children will be allowed to ...