Mexican American

Mexican American posts cover the long Mexican-American community in the United States, with deep roots in Texas, the Southwest and California going back well before the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Articles look at the early Tejano and Californio communities, the Bracero Program from 1942 to 1964, the Chicano civil rights movement of the 1960s, the long Cesar Chavez and United Farm Workers fight, the cultural contributions in food, music and Spanglish slang and the way the Census category Hispanic-or-Latino has shifted over decades. There are also short pieces on the Day of the Dead in US cities.