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Nepantla is a concept used in Chicano and Latino anthropology, social commentary, criticism, literature and art. It represents a concept of "in-between-ness." [1] Nepantla is a Nahuatl word which means "in the middle of it" or "middle."
Mexican Americans starting moving from the southwestern to large northeastern and midwestern cities after World War II. Large Mexican American communities developed in cities in the northeast and midwest such as St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh. Around 90 percent of Mexicans in the United States live in urban areas. [100]
The number of Mexican Catholics has fallen by 5% in the first decade of the 21st century and in the south-east Catholics make up less than two-thirds of the population. [11] In absolute terms, Mexico has 90,224,559 Catholics, [1] which is the world's second largest number of Catholics, surpassed only by Brazil. [12]
In Mexico, the early systematic evangelization by mendicants came to be known as the "Spiritual Conquest of Mexico". [ 1 ] Antonio de Montesinos , a Dominican friar on the island of Hispaniola , was the first member of the clergy to publicly denounce all forms of enslavement and oppression of the indigenous peoples of the Americas . [ 2 ]
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Tejanos may identify as being of Mexican, Chicano, Mexican American, Spanish, Hispano, American and/or Indigenous ancestry. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] In urban areas, as well as some rural communities, Tejanos tend to be well integrated into both the Hispanic and mainstream American cultures.
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Irreligion in Mexico refers to atheism, deism, religious skepticism, secularism, and secular humanism in Mexican society, which was a confessional state after independence from Imperial Spain. The first political constitution of the Mexican United States , enacted in 1824, stipulated that Roman Catholicism was the national religion in ...