Mexican American

One result of the continued expansion of United States territory was the Mexican-American war.

Three generations of women in a Mexican American family experience sexual awakenings over the course of a summer.

The university used to award a yearly scholarship to a Mexican-American student; now it goes to a student who speaks Spanish really well.

At a local charity that offers food to the poor, Mexican American activist Pancho Medina says the law targets Hispanics.

The act is in reaction to a Mexican-American programme in Tucson, which opponents claim teaches Hispanics that they are oppressed by whites.

A Mexican-American youth or teenager, especially one who dresses in flamboyant clothes and belongs to a neighborhood gang.

Cesar Chavez was a Mexican American labor activist and leader of the United Farm Workers.

He was a third-generation Mexican-American from the San Gabriel Valley who worked for the city of Los Angeles.

Traditional research has confronted only Mexican and United States interpretations of Mexican-American culture.

What chance did a poor Mexican-American with a seventh-grade education have of being welcomed into that world? Yet the boy was determined.

Prof Michaelsen finished Mark Twain's book today and we're going to read our next assigned book, written by a Mexican American author.

An incorrigible Romeo, Mr. Mays gave his alter ego a Juliet: the sister of a Mexican-American gang member.

Victory in the Mexican-American war in the late 1840s led to the first big influx of Mexicans to the United States.

Subjects were drawn from a predominantly Mexican American population located in the Lower Rio Grande Valley region of Texas.

Most are Mexican-American, born in the United States, and Spanish is the common language.

a Mexican-American teenager who belongs to a neighborhood gang and who dresses in showy clothes.

A Mexican-American family headed for the Asian Fusion tent to view martial arts demonstrations with roots in Korea and the Philippines.

MANA, the Mexican-American Women's National Association, organizes as feminist activist organization.

This dispute would later become a trigger for the Mexican-American War after the annexation of Texas.

Sanchez, George. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles. 1993.

Scott also ran for president but was defeated in 1852 by another veteran of the Mexican-American War, Franklin Pierce.

Thus, suddenly deprived of our parent culture, we had to evolve uniquely Mexican-American modes of thought and action in order to survive.

More than 70% of its students are Mexican or Mexican-American.

Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to a Mexican American family.

Currently, 82 percent of African American women and 75 percent of Mexican-American women meet the criteria for being overweight or obese.

It was harder for their Mexican-American successors to win public sympathy.

Mexican American war US takes Texas.

Mexican-American War. Win.

A Genome-Wide Scan for Carotid Artery Intima-Media Thickness. The Mexican-American Coronary Artery Disease Family Study

Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund

The Renaissance of Mexican American Theater