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    Espinoza v. Farah Mfg. Co., 414 U.S. 86 (1973), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court, which held that an employer's refusal to hire a person...
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    Gatekeeper Mexican Repatriation Repatriation flight program United States v. Brignoni-Ponce (1975) Wetback (slur) Emigration from Mexico Hernandez 2006...
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    D. v. Rodriguez Espinoza v. Farah Manufacturing Co. U.S. v. Brignoni-Ponce Plyler v. Doe Medellín v. Texas Flores-Figueroa v. U.S. Leal Garcia v. Texas...
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    the main character Carl "CJ" Johnson. In the video game Grand Theft Auto V, several Latino street gangs are depicted, including the Vagos, Aztecas, and...
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    were going "pa' El Chuco". Some say "pa El Chuco" comes from the words Shoe Co., a shoe company that was located in El Paso in the 1940s during the war....
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    v. Dominguez Hernandez v. Texas San Antonio I.S.D. v. Rodriguez Espinoza v. Farah Manufacturing Co. U.S. v. Brignoni-Ponce Plyler v. Doe Medellín v....
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    v. Dominguez Hernandez v. Texas San Antonio I.S.D. v. Rodriguez Espinoza v. Farah Manufacturing Co. U.S. v. Brignoni-Ponce Plyler v. Doe Medellín v....
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    Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982), was a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States struck down both a state statute denying funding...
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    addition, The Philosophy of MEChA addressed the problem of outside organizations co-opting the legitimacy of MEChA to advance their own agendas, doing so by establishing...
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    kindergarten and also volunteered in a hospital as an interpreter. In 1940 she co-edited the journal El Heraldo Cristiano. In May 1917, Idar married Bartolo...
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    D. v. Rodriguez Espinoza v. Farah Manufacturing Co. U.S. v. Brignoni-Ponce Plyler v. Doe Medellín v. Texas Flores-Figueroa v. U.S. Leal Garcia v. Texas...
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    regulations for the manufacture of what Esquire magazine called, "streamlined suits by Uncle Sam". The regulations effectively forbade the manufacture of the wide-cut...
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    v. Dominguez Hernandez v. Texas San Antonio I.S.D. v. Rodriguez Espinoza v. Farah Manufacturing Co. U.S. v. Brignoni-Ponce Plyler v. Doe Medellín v....
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    activists also achieved several major legal victories including the 1947 Mendez v. Westminster court case ruling which declared that segregating children of...
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    Lynda V (and the Boys) and Letty Guval are two amongst others who made their mark in Tejano Music in 1990s but little is known about them. Lynda V (and...
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    v. Dominguez Hernandez v. Texas San Antonio I.S.D. v. Rodriguez Espinoza v. Farah Manufacturing Co. U.S. v. Brignoni-Ponce Plyler v. Doe Medellín v....
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    sustain a guilty verdict. It reversed the 12 defendants' convictions in People v Zammora 66 Cal.App.2d 166. The appeals court also criticized the trial judge...
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    Effects on Immigrants and Their Co‐Ethnics." American Journal of Political Science 59.3 (2015): 549-564. Dionne Espinoza, "'The Partido Belongs to Those...
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    Varieties of English around the world, General series; v. 7. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Pub. Co., (1985). Sanchez, Rosaura. Chicano Discourse: Sociohistoric...
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    their political responsibilities to the community. University administrators co-opted oppositional forces within Chicano Studies programs and encouraged tendencies...
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    in existence. Professor at the University of California Los Angeles Cati V. de Los Ríos analyzes the impact of Borderlands/La Frontera’s ban in the classroom...
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    female lead band, Bags. Alice and the Bags are known to be responsible for "co-creating the first wave of California punk alongside the likes of Black Flag...
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    arrange the 1845 annexation of Texas by the United States. Instead, Article V of the treaty described the new U.S.–Mexico border. From east to west, the...
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  • The Farah strike (1972–1974) was a labor strike by the employees of Farah Manufacturing Company, a clothing company in El Paso, Texas and New Mexico....
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    New Mexico Press. pp. 2–3, 352–354, 392, 450. Urbina, Martin Guevara; Espinoza Álvarez, Sofia (2017). Ethnicity and Criminal Justice in the Era of Mass...
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    Chican@ Speculative Productions". In Merla-Watson, Cathryn Josefina; Olguín, B.V. (eds.). Altermundos: Latin@ Speculative Literature, Film, and Popular Culture...
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