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[2] [3] They are currently in the process of opening a visitor’s center on the west side of San Antonio. There are also plans of eventually opening a museum and archive building in the coming years. [4] The Mexican American Civil Rights Institute is formerly known as the National Institute of Mexican American History of Civil Rights.
Tejano South Texas: A Mexican American Cultural Province is a 2002 non-fiction book by Daniel D. Arreola, published by the University of Texas Press. It discusses the South Texas region and Mexican American culture within the region. Arreola includes photographs, [1] multiple maps, [2] as well as diagrams. [3]
El Paso – Largest Mexican-American community bordering a state of Mexico. 74% of El Paso is of Mexican descent, highest percentage of any city with a population of over 500k. South Texas – Heavily populated by Mexican-Americans, who are the ethnic majority, in a region spanning from Laredo to Corpus Christi to Brownsville .
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 ...
The library includes over 970,000 books, 19,000 maps, 93,500 photographs, 4,000 linear feet of manuscripts, 11,500 broadsides, and 50,000 items in other multimedia formats. Most of the sources are about Texas and Mexico, but also include items are also from the other Latin American countries, particularly: Central America, Chile, Peru, and Brazil.
It was the scene of the first fighting in the Mexican–American War in 1846. In the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo , signed in 1848, Mexico ceded the Nueces Strip to the U.S. Ever since 1848 the border area has had a reputation for lawlessness and smuggling, [ 3 ] and was a main zone of activity of the Texas Rangers . [ 4 ]
The Dallas Mexican American Historical League (DMAHL) is a non-profit organization based in Dallas, Texas which aims to document the history of Mexican Americans in the city while providing education on the experiences and contributions of Mexican Americans in Dallas, Texas. The organization was founded in March 2008, and became an official tax ...
This category includes articles related to the culture and history of Mexican Americans in Texas. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.