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  2. Center for Mexican American Studies at Arlington - Wikipedia

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    The Center for Mexican American Studies at The University of Texas at Arlington is an academic research center that promotes research and the recruitment, retention, and professional development of UTA faculty actively engaged in studies on Latino issues. The Center administers an 18-hour academic minor in Mexican American Studies and its ...

  3. Tomás Rivera Award - Wikipedia

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    The Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award recognizes authors and illustrators whose literary work depict the Mexican American experience. [1] This award was established in 1995 by the Texas State University College of Education in honor of distinguished alumnus, Tomás Rivera [2] an educator, poet and author of literary works depicting the difficulties experienced by Mexican ...

  4. Tomás Rivera - Wikipedia

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    Rivera taught in high schools throughout the Southwest US, and later at Sam Houston State University and the University of Texas at El Paso. From 1979 until his death in 1984, he was the chancellor of the University of California, Riverside , the first Mexican-American to hold such a position at the University of California .

  5. History of Mexican Americans in Texas - Wikipedia

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    García, Richard A. Rise of the Mexican American Middle Class, San Antonio, 1919–1941 (Texas A&M UP, 1991) McKenzie, Phyllis. The Mexican Texans. (Texas A&M University Press, 2004). ISBN 1585443077, 9781585443079. Menchaca, Martha, The Mexican American Experience in Texas: Citizenship, Segregation, and the Struggle for Equality (U of Texas ...

  6. Timeline of Latino civil rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In September 1972 he was elected as the Raza Unida Party's national chairman. In 1984 he unsuccessfully ran for State Representative of Oregon. He founded the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington in 1994 and served as the director.

  7. Texas State University to open first international campus in ...

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    The satellite campus in Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico, which will be run by a private third-party, will offer Texas State curricula and degrees. Texas State University to open first international ...

  8. Benson Latin American Collection - Wikipedia

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    The fifth floor stacks at the Benson Collection, University of Texas. The Latin American holdings at the University of Texas have increased since the early twentieth century. [8] Historian Carlos E. Castañeda wrote a history of the collection to 1940, detailing deals for some acquisitions that he observed. [9]

  9. Saving a lasting reminder of Mexican American school segregation

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    A decade after the Lemon Grove case, more than 80% of the state's Mexican American students still attended segregated schools. It took another lawsuit by parents in Westminster to end the practice ...