• Mexican WhiteBoy is a 2008 novel by Matt De La Peña, published by Delacorte Press. De la Peña drew on his own adolescent passion for sports in developing...
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    State University. De la Peña wrote Mexican WhiteBoy in 2008, drawing on his own teenage passion for sports and Mexican heritage. The novel was banned from...
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  • Hoopz and Whiteboy learn that the final challenge is called "The Dash For the Cash." Hoopz and Whiteboy must run up to people in a Mexican town and collect...
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    heritage. In 2022, Mexican Americans comprised 11.2% of the US population and 58.9% of all Hispanic and Latino Americans. In 2019, 71% of Mexican Americans were...
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    been used along the borderland as a derogatory term to mean lower class Mexican migrants, and in the rest of Latin America to mean an acculturating Indian...
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    activists. Mexican Americans insisted that Mexicans were white, while Chicanos embraced being non-white and the development of brown pride. Mexican American...
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    northern California. Almost one million Mexican immigrants began entering America in the 1910s, shortly after the Mexican Revolution, with a large percentage...
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    the First Mexican Empire and Republic, the Centralist Republic of Mexico, and the New Mexico Territory. The descendants of these New Mexican settlers make...
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    as a designation of Mexicans. In the 1960s to 1970s, the term became associated with the Chicano Movement in relation to Mexican-American identity politics...
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    Mexican Americans or Mexican American Indians are American citizens who culturally identify with the Indigenous peoples of Mexico. Indigenous Mexican-Americans...
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    MEChA (category Mexican-American organizations)
    Chicano-related curricula, the celebration of Mexican cultural traditions, as well as other Latin American holidays (such as Mexican Independence Day), Columbus Day...
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    Aztlán (category History of Mexican Americans)
    as the place of origin of the pre-Columbian Mexican civilization has become a symbol for various Mexican ethno-nationalist movements. In 1969 the notion...
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    learn Mexican history or the history of Mexican Americans. Additionally, the little material the European-American community was taught about Mexican Americans...
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    Lowrider (category Mexican-American culture)
    or low rider is a customized car with a lowered body that emerged among Mexican American youth in the 1940s. Lowrider also refers to the driver of the...
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    The House on Mango Street is a 1984 novel by Mexican-American author Sandra Cisneros. Structured as a series of vignettes, it tells the story of Esperanza...
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    Chicano English, or Mexican-American English, is a dialect of American English spoken primarily by Mexican Americans (sometimes known as Chicanos), particularly...
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    Caló (also known as Pachuco) is an argot or slang of Mexican Spanish that originated during the first half of the 20th century in the Southwestern United...
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    Brown Berets (category Mexican-American organizations)
    Historiography of Mexican-Origin Women's Participation in Voluntary Associations and Politics in the United States, 1870 1990." Perspectives in Mexican American...
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    Gómez-Peña uses Spanglish in his performances. Matt de la Peña's novel Mexican WhiteBoy (2008) features flourishes of Spanglish. Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous...
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    Organization Mexicans in Omaha, Nebraska Mexicans in Chicago Mexican muralism Mexican Repatriation Mexican Texas Mexican WhiteBoy Missionary Catechists of Divine...
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    California alongside Lowrider car culture popular in Chicano communities. Mexican American youth would emulate the craft of lowrider cars with their bicycles...
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    Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar (category Mexican crime bosses)
    relative of trafficker Héctor Luis Palma Salazar (alias "El Güero" or "Whiteboy"), an associate of Chapo dating to their time in the Guadalajara Cartel...
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    Pachuco (category Mexican youth culture)
    United States. While he was not the first Mexican comedian to perform as a Mexican American zoot suiter, Mexican comedian and film actor German Valdés better-known...
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    soul" contrasts with blue-eyed soul, soul music performed by non-Hispanic white artists. Critic Ruben Molina said roots of chicano soul music was from the...
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    Mexican-American cuisine is the cuisine of Mexican Americans and their descendants, who have modified Mexican cuisine under the influence of American...
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  • were banned from the curriculum. Matt de la Peña's young-adult novel Mexican WhiteBoy was banned for "containing 'critical race theory'" according to state...
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    There is a very large Mexican American community in the Chicago metropolitan area. Illinois, and Chicago's Mexican American community is the largest outside...
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    Estrada Courts (category Mexican-American culture in Los Angeles)
    (1973), located at 1364-6 Grande Vista Ave at Olympic In Memory of a Home Boy by Daniel Martinez (1973), located at 3328 Hunter Street Dreams of Flight...
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    Latino/a, Mexican American, Mestizo, and Hispanic. Xicanx has also sometimes been used to include colonized people outside of just Mexican descent, such...
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    Anti-Mexican sentiment, is prejudice, fear, discrimination, or hatred towards Mexico and people of Mexican descent, Mexican culture and/or Mexican Spanish...
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