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The city of Houston has significant populations of Mexican Americans, Mexican immigrants, and Mexican citizen expatriates. Houston residents of Mexican origin make up the oldest Hispanic ethnic group in Houston, and Jessi Elana Aaron and José Esteban Hernández, authors of "Quantitative evidence for contact-induced accommodation: Shifts in /s/ reduction patterns in Salvadoran Spanish in ...
During the 1900s-1930s, Mexican Americans utilized the court systems to assert and defend their rights as citizens in various ways. Mexican Americans faced challenges regarding land ownership and property rights due to discriminatory practices and racial prejudice.
García, Richard A. Rise of the Mexican American Middle Class, San Antonio, 1919–1941 (Texas A&M UP, 1991) McKenzie, Phyllis. The Mexican Texans. (Texas A&M University Press, 2004). ISBN 1585443077, 9781585443079. Menchaca, Martha, The Mexican American Experience in Texas: Citizenship, Segregation, and the Struggle for Equality (U of Texas ...
Mexican Americans are residents of the United States who are of Mexican descent. ... (1900–1967) actor and director ... Marques Houston (born 1981) – singer;
An exhibit documenting the history of racial violence against Mexicans in the Texas border in the early 20th century got a national grant.
Texas Mexican Americans and Postwar Civil Rights (U of Texas Press, 2015}. Stewart, Kenneth L., and Arnoldo De León. Not Room Enough: Mexicans, Anglos, and Socioeconomic Change in Texas, 1850-1900 (1993) Tijerina, Andrés. Tejanos and Texas under the Mexican Flag, 1821-1836 (1994), Tijerina, Andrés. Tejano Empire: Life on the South Texas ...
A school in Texas built to teach Mexican American children separately from whites, the Blackwell School, could become a national historic site under a Senate bill.
Hinojosa, a Mexican-American journalist, is the anchor and executive producer of Latino USA, a public radio show devoted to Latino issues. She helped launch Latino USA in 1992 and has also worked ...