Sylvia Mendoza, assistant professor of Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio (left), and Lilliana Patricia Saldaña, associate professor of Mexican American Studies and ...

Worth, during the Mexican-American War.1855. Library of Congress. In 1844, President James K. Polk ran on a Democratic platform that supported manifest destiny, the idea that Americans were ...

As a first-generation American of Mexican descent, I find myself reflecting on the historical significance of the Bracero Program, initiated by the Democrats in the 1940s. This program ...

I’m a proud, first-generation, college-educated and gay Mexican American with undocumented family in the United States, including a mother who was previously deported to Mexico, and I ...

Fernando Valenzuela, the famed left-handed pitcher whose fairy-tale rookie season revitalized the connection between the Los ...

2, 1981, in Los Angeles. Fernando Valenzuela, the Mexican-born phenom for the Los Angeles Dodgers who inspired “Fernandomania” while winning the NL Cy Young Award and Rookie of the Year in 1981, has ...

Trump's comments triggered Latinos who saw them as part of a history of racism that Mexican Americans in the military have long faced. Such incidents played a large role in the early and later ...

The project aims to commemorate the 2 million Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants who were forcibly deported from the United States during the Great Depression, including approximately 400,000 ...

To that end, CMAS’ annual, competitive fellowship allows oral historians to jumpstart their own projects. The interviews are part of CMAS’ archives at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection ...

Foods and flavors from Mexico have influenced American cuisine for centuries. But in the last half of the 1900s, Mexican-inspired foods found their way to every corner of the the United States, ...

“As Mexican Americans, we have to give props to how high Checo has been representing Mexico on an international stage over the past couple of years.” That sentiment, felt on the ground at ...