American culture is rooted colonialism, the taking of Native American land and the enslavement of African people according to Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's account in. ..…

(Jun 01, 2005) . teaches history and Latin American studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. ... Mexican Labor News and Analysis . The Mexican labor movement has been undergoing a profound transformation in the last ten years, the result of twenty years of neoliberal economic policies..…

Ed Vulliamy commented: “Historians write of the black gloves held aloft by medal-winning American runners at the Mexico Olympics. They write less about the white gloves worn by the Olympia Brigade of the Mexican army, tanks behind them and the helicopters aloft, which fired on students,..…

In some ways, the project of making the film, choosing and interviewing subjects, recruiting residents to become the sheriff, the mayor, Mexican IWW, Mexican- American torn between his mother and the clear rationale for striking, became Truth and Reconciliation for the town.. ..…

In 1845, the United States annexed the “Republic of Texas” (Mexican territory occupied by “illegal immigrant” American slave owners seeking to expand the slave plantation system of the Southern U.S., westward). Mexico’s defeat in the subsequent Mexican-American..…

Women asserted their rights in uprisings like the Farah strike of 1972-1974, in which 4,000 Mexican American women struck for union recognition and won the support of a national coalition of unionists, Chicano nationalists, radical students, men and women religious, and others. ..…

These are strange times to be a conservative Mexican-American. . I do not see myself as a person with one foot in the United States and one foot in Mexico. ... At a more grass-roots level, the radio host Rush Limbaugh famously characterized the Mexican-American population..…

State Department was stripping passports from U.S citizens of primarily Mexican heritage, of limbo and depriving them of their full rights, including the ability to travel outside U.S. ..…

Also, the number of unauthorized Mexican immigrants in U.S has declined by million between 2007 and 2014, even as the number of unauthorized immigrants has stabilized at about 11.1 million.. ..…

He launched the U.S. into the Mexican-American War on the strength of the slaveocracy's fantasy of annexing an entire nation's worth of territory where slavery would be legal. ..…

Religious Advisory Board to provide advice on how to make America great again at least for Christians. ..…

estimated 34.6 Hispanics of Mexican origin resided in United States in 2013, according to Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau's American Community Survey.. At the time, the population of Mexican living in U.S grew more than 400%, up from 2.2 in 1980 to 11.5 in 2013.. ..…

She is Mexican- American woman to join the judiciary, Justice Department officials said. ..…

he will ensure that Americans are protected from discrimination, so that each person has the opportunity to live American dream, as Al has done... By his wife and two of their three children, Gonzales, the son of Mexican- American laborers. ..…

A federal appeals court ruled that a U.S. kidnapping abroad, in violation of an extradition treaty, nullifies the U.S. government's right to try that person in American courts. The ruling came in the case of a Mexican doctor, Dr. Humberto Alvarez-Machain of Guadalajara. . ..…

The wife of Felix Longoria, Mexican- American private killed in Philippines during the war, received his remains in 1948 and sought to bury them in town near San Antonio. ..…

For instance, Mexican Catholics are significantly less likely than Mexican-American Catholics to say Catholic Church should allow priests to marry and women to be ordained as priests.. ... For example, 66% of Mexican Catholics and 72% of..…

Pew Research Center survey of Latin American countries and U.S territory of Puerto Rico asked people from Mexico to Argentina about their affiliation, beliefs and practices. ..…

The new 9th Ward Council member, Mexican-American Alondra Cano, stressed the importance of differentiating between “talking and doing.” ..…

., Mexican-born immigrants are younger, less educated and less likely to speak English very well, according to tabulations from American Community Survey. ... The in this section on Mexican immigrants in United States are drawn from American Community Survey. ..…

In addition, the number of Mexican-Americans in the U.S.—both immigrants and U.S.-born residents of Mexican ancestry—is continuing to rise. The Mexican-American population numbered 33 million in 2010.2 As reported previously (Pew Hispanic Center, 2011), between 2000 and..…

Participating groups represented a broad cross section of public issues: Worker’s rights were foremost, but there were also banners for immigrant concerns, working conditions, FBI actions, Peace, Mexican policies, Native Americans, Socialist Workers and many other issues. . May Day has very..…

By other ethnic groups in the, According to US Census Bureau projections, non-Hispanic whites will be outnumbered United States in about 2042. ..…

Only one in eight claims to speak English very well.13 Italians and Poles had similar handicaps in 1910, but Americans are far better educated today than they were a century ago, so the gap between Mexicans and American-born workers is wider. In view of their educational and linguistic disadvantages,..…

The Mexican government’s combat against these criminal organizations has pushed them into alternative profitable ventures, including the smuggling of Central American children. ..…