Mexican American history

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• SOURCE: Zocalo
  4/10/2023
  

  Claiming a Latino Place in Chicago

  by Mike Amezcua

  Like their African American contemporaries, ethnic Mexicans in Chicago have a long history of organizing to overturn residential segregation. 

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• 4/9/2023
  

  The Power and Betrayal of Cross-Ethnic Solidarity in the 1903 Oxnard Beet Strike

  by Frank P. Barajas

  The Japanese Mexican Labor Association overcame the deliberate ethnic division of the farm labor force in Oxnard, California to win a major strike in the sugar beet fields in 1903, overcoming violent repression. Anti-Asian prejudice in the broader labor movement ended this successful experiment to the detriment of generations of workers. 

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• SOURCE: Dallas Observer
  2/24/2023
  

  Prof. Trinidad Gonzalez Seeks Truth and Reconciliation from Texas Rangers

  The historian at South Texas College is seeking acknowledgment by the state legislature and elected officials representing the Rio Grande Valley of the atrocities committed under the color of law by the Texas Rangers after Texas independence. 

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• SOURCE: Religion News Service
  2/10/2023
  

  The Virgin of Guadalupe is a Constant on the Changing Streets of Los Angeles

  The image of the Virgin Mary is both a protector of small businesses and a symbol of ethnic pride across Los Angeles; photographer Oscar Rodriguez Zapata has been documenting her appearances for a decade. 

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• 1/29/2023
  

  Latino Activists Changed San Antonio in the 1960s

  by Ricardo Romo

  San Antonio in the 1960s faced many of the same challenges of cities throughout the South; its emerging Mexican American political leadership helped steer the city in a progressive direction. 

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• SOURCE: La Voz
  1/15/2023
  

  The History of Mexican Americans in Austin

  by Cynthia E. Orozco

  A historian works to develop a chronicle of Mexican American community events in the city of Austin with a local community newspaper. 

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• SOURCE: Inquest
  1/10/2023
  

  A History of Violence in the US/Mexico Borderlands

  by Brian Behnken

  Policing both the border and Mexican American communities in the Southwest has always been entangled with white supremacist violence, the author argues in a new book. 

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• 12/11/2022
  

  Immigrant Education in America is a Series of Stories of Courage

  by Jessica Lander

  One in four K-12 students today is an immigrant or a child of immigrants. A high school history teacher in an immigrant-serving school argues that we need to remember the examples of past educators who defied law and prejudice to make schools places where immigrants became Americans. 

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  12/2/2022
  

  Texas Prof Wins John Lewis Award for Work Recovering History of Anti-Mexican Border Violence

  Trinidad Gonzalez of South Texas College discovered his own family's connection to "la Matanza," the killing of several hundred ethnic Mexicans in the Rio Grande Valley in 1915, while researching the broader history of racist violence along the Texas-Mexico border. 

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• SOURCE: NextCity
  11/10/202
  

  Decades in Making, San Diego Museum will Honor Chicano Community and Movement

  "Organizers and community members hope the museum will document the history of Chicano Park and continue educating future generations about Barrio Logan’s history."

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• 11/11/2022
  

  The Wartime Service and Postwar Activism of One Latino Veteran

  by Ricardo Romo

  For Veteran's Day, a historian shares photos, and the history, of his father's wartime experiences. Like many of his compatriots, Henry Romo was reluctant to discuss those experiences, but drew on them to work for equal citizenship at home. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/1/2022
  

  Black-Brown Solidarity has been Elusive in Los Angeles

  by Erin Aubry Kaplan

  For decades, the increasing Latino presence in previously Black neighborhoods in South Los Angeles has raised concerns about political representation and hopes for a cross-racial movement for a more just city. Recent leaked city councl tapes show things are far from settled. 

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• 10/30/2022
  

  How US Latinos Resurrected the Day of the Dead

  by Ricardo Romo

  American Latinos have transformed the day from a private ritiual of communion with ancestors to a public affirmation of heritage. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/5/2022
  

  Marfa, TX School to Become National Historic Site Preserving Story of Segregated Mexican Americans

  The segregation of Anglo and Mexican students in Texas was not always enforced by law, but local custom and prejudice was sufficient in many places. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Tribune
  9/19/2022
  

  At its 50th Reunion, La Raza Unida Asks How to Pass the Torch

  La Raza Unida grew out of civil rights mobilization in the 1960s and worked to mobilize the large, complex, and internally divided communities of ethnic Mexican Texans, focusing on education and voting rights, and struggling to bridge radical and moderate political outlooks. 

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• 8/28/2022
  

  The Chicano Moratorium in East LA and Ventura County

  by Frank P. Barajas

  Chicano Moratorium commemorations continue today in communities in and out of East Los Angeles as they mark a history that centers on the experience of ethnic Mexican and Latinx peoples in the US to inspire and reinspire the young and old, to continue their struggle to realize the ideal of justice for all.

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• SOURCE: Minnesota Public Radio
  8/12/2022
  

  Kelly Lytle Hernández on the Linked Histories of Mexico and the US

  "Many Americans don’t know that the histories of the United States and Mexico are inseparably intertwined. But historian Kelly Lytle Hernández says you cannot fully understand one without the other."

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• SOURCE: Texas Tribune
  6/22/2022
  

  Before the Tragedy, Uvalde Was the Site of a Major School Walkout. Will That History Be Lost?

  In 1970, ethnic Mexican students at Uvalde High School staged a six-week school boycott to protest persistent segregation and pervasive disrespect from teachers and administrators. 

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• SOURCE: WNYC
  6/8/2022
  

  Monica Muñoz Martinez on the Border, Violence, and Uvalde

  Michelle Garcia, journalist, essayist, Soros Equality Fellow and Dobie Paisano writer-in-residence, and Monica Muñoz Martinez, associate professor of history at the University of Texas-Austin, talk about the border security apparatus at Uvalde, and the history of violence and discrimination at the South Texas and Mexican border.

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• 4/24/2022
  

  The Issue of Visibility in Latino Art

  by Ricardo Romo

  "The moment is ripe for bringing Latino art to public spaces and public museums. The number of talented Latino artists has multiplied over the past two decades, and the opportunity to make their work visible is now."