The 1940-50s was a period of time that catalyzed large economic, political, social, and cultural shifts for Latinos in the United States. In my essay, I will focus on the effects of Mexican immigration patterns during World War II, the development of counter scripts in...
The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was validated on February 2, 1848, the treaty ended the Mexican-American war. This war lasted about two years which was based on a few disputes between the United States and Mexico. Mexican Americans struggled to achieve first class citizenship. Not...
There are many immigrants in the United States, from various countries. This paper will concentrate on the Mexican “ American heritage and their outstanding spoke person Cesar Chavez. The people of this culture are some times called Latinos, Mexicans, Mexican-Americans and Chicanos. Mexican is specifically...
Machismo is Part of Our Culture From the 1940s to 1970s, the Chicano Movement was founded amidst racism in the United States to achieve equality and to empower the Mexican American community. At the height of the Chicano Civil Rights Movement, the Chicana Feminist Movement,...
The term Spanglish develops an intrinsic relationship with the presence of Spanish in the United States, principally due to the immigration of people coming from Latin America. According to a report published by the US Census Bureau in 2010, 50,5 million of Hispanics were living...
Mexico had long insisted that its northern border lay along the Nueces River. The United States said the border was farther south, along the Rio Grande. In June of 1845, President Polk ordered General Zachary Taylor to lead an army into the challenged region. I...
Introduction Spanglish, for the Oxford English Dictionary (2017) is defined as “A hybrid language combining words from both Spanish and English”. This hybridization can follow two patterns: the first one is lexical borrowing, a word that because of different factors, such as social, historical, etc.,...
Dolores Huerta is a Mexican-American political activist born on April 10, 1930, in northern New Mexico (“Dolores Huerta” 2013). As a young woman living in the mid-20th century, there was a very strict role set out for her, particularly being of Mexican heritage. Despite this,...
John C. Pinheiro’s Missionaries of Republicanism: A Religious History of the Mexican-American War is about how religion and war play about in the Americas (mainly in the United States) in the middle of the nineteenth century. It compares Mexico’s dominant Catholicism to the United States...
Today, The Day of the Dead in Aztlan, has become one of the most widely celebrated Mexican cultural traditions in the Southwest, United States. It strengthens the cultural cohesiveness of the Chicano community and is an unparallel example of how Chicano movement politics and Neo-Indigenous...
Growing up as a kid in foster care, I was surrounded by many other cultures and races other than my own, of which each brought their own traditions and cultural rituals to my life. One cultural rite I have partaken in for many years and...
Cinco dе Mауо iѕ аnnuаllу оbѕеrvеd оn Mау 5. It celebrates thе dеfеаt of thе Frеnсh аrmу during thе Bаttlе оf Puebla (Bаtаllа dе Puebla) in Mexico оn Mау 5, 1862. It iѕ nоt to be соnfuѕеd with Mеxiсо’ѕ Indереndеnсе Day. Cinco de Mayo iѕ...
Mexican American cultures are often characterized by the practice of machismo and marianismo. The work of Barrera and Longoria identifies machismo as a belief among Latinos that they should be accorded respect through submission by their wives and children. To these experts, machismo is defined...
Introduction Mexican Americans have a long and colorful history dating back hundreds of years. Over the span of nearly a century, Mexican-Americans have created a distinct identity. They are separated into two groups: those who have just arrived in the United States and those who...
Introduction Chicano Militancy and the Government’s War on Dissent by Ernest Vigil has been one of the most impactful books I’ve read during my college career. I realized that I was incredibly ill-informed about the history of Denver, Colorado and the Chicano movement that took...
