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His work is studied in courses of American and Mexican-American literature, and the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute bearing his name continues to publish studies on educational, immigration, economic, and other issues important to Hispanic-Americans. At the University of Texas at San Antonio, a tutoring center is named in his honor.
Left-right from top: first female Mexican American author in English María Ruiz de Burton, 1887 picture of the initial boundary marking the U.S.-Mexico border, Texas Rangers during the 1910-1920 La Matanza, 1877 lynching of two Mexican-American men in California, civil rights leader Cesar Chavez, the Mexican Repatriation, the Great American ...
Staff Sergeant Marcario García [1] also known as Macario García [note 1] (January 20, 1920 – December 24, 1972) was the first Mexican immigrant to receive the Medal of Honor, the United States' highest military decoration. He received the award for his heroic actions as a soldier during World War II.
Ruiz de Burton's work is considered to be one of the first instances of Mexican-American literature, and gives the perspective of the conquered Mexican population that, despite being granted full rights of citizenship by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, was a marginalized national minority. [1]
Vasconcelos was born in Oaxaca, Oaxaca, on February 28, 1882, [citation needed] the son of a customs official. [7] José's mother, a pious Catholic, died when José was 16. The family moved to the border town of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, where he grew up attending school in Eagle Pass, Texas.
José Joaquín Eugenio Fernández de Lizardi Gutiérrez (November 15, 1776 [1] – June 21, 1827) was a Mexican writer and political journalist.He is best known as the author of El Periquillo Sarniento (1816), translated into English as The Mangy Parrot, reputed to be the first novel written in Latin America.
The Mexican-American singer, known as the Queen of Tejano Music or simply just La Reina to her most devoted fans, is best known for songs like “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom,” “Como La Flor,” “Si ...
Américo Paredes (September 3, 1915 – May 5, 1999) was an American author born in Brownsville, Texas who authored several texts focusing on the border life that existed between the United States and Mexico, particularly around the Rio Grande region of South Texas. His family on his father’s side, however, had been in the Americas since 1580.