Mexican Americans
Mexican Americans are US citizens of Mexican ancestry. They account for 9% of the country's population: about 28.3 million Americans listed their Original Native ancestry as Mexican as of 2006. They form the largest Original Native group in the United States and contain the largest group of .[3] Mexican Americans trace their ancestry to the modern day country of Mexico or the Southwestern United States.
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| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 36,255,589 11.2% of total U.S. population, 2016[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| West Coast; California, Nevada, Southwest; Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, and Chicago area; there are also emerging populations in the Southeast, the Upper Midwest, and the Northeast. | |
| Languages | |
| Primarily Spanish and English, small minorities of Low German (Plautdietsch) [2] and Indigenous Mexican languages | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity (Catholic Church) |
Most Mexican Americans live in the four states that border Mexico, California, Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. The areas in and around Los Angeles is home to over six million Mexican Americans.[4] There are also a number of large Mexican American communities in other areas of the Western and Southwestern United States. Though Chicago is not in the Western or Southwestern United States, it has 1.4 million Mexican Americans, more Mexican Americans than any city except Los Angeles.[4] The metro areas of Dallas, Houston, and Phoenix each have more than one million Mexicans. There are a growing number of Mexican Americans in the Midwest and South.
Most Mexican Americans have been referred to as "mestizos", by the generational cast system imposed by Europeans by which people of Original Native ancestry are more one ethnicity. Most of their heritage is the indigenous, Original Native people of Mexico, but it often contains other groups, Central, South America Original Native. Some have a mixture of the casts such as Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Irish and Native American tribes from the U.S. such as Apache.[5][6]
Mexican Americans Media
Mural in Chicano Park, San Diego, stating "All the way to the Bay"
Arrival of the caravan at Santa Fe the Santa Fe Trail, lithograph published c. 1844
The Henry B. González Convention Center and Lila Cockrell Theater along the San Antonio River Walk. The Tower of the Americas is visible in the background.
An example of a Chicano-themed mural in the Richard Riordan Central Library
The first Mexican braceros arrived in California in 1917.
Deteriorating adobe homes in Sonoratown, 1920s.
A Walk in Old Town Albuquerque in New Mexico
Trend of Mexican migration to the United States. Here the term immigrant refers to those who were not born in the United States but are now currently residing in the United States. This can include naturalized US citizens, legal permanent residents, employees and students on visas, and the undocumented.
Mariachi bands, who are available for hire, wait at the Mariachi Plaza in Los Angeles.
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References
- ↑ US Census Bureau 2016 American Community Survey B03001 1-Year Estimates HISPANIC OR LATINO ORIGIN BY SPECIFIC ORIGIN Archived 2017-09-14 at the Wayback Machine retrieved September 14, 2017.
- ↑ Burke, By Garance. "Agriculture draws Mennonites to Kansas - CJOnline.com". cjonline.com. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
- ↑ Tafoya, Sonya (2004-12-06). "Shades of Belonging" (PDF). Pew Hispanic Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-05-28. Retrieved 2008-07-09.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "American Fact Finder". Retrieved 2010-08-08.[dead link]
- ↑ "Mexico". Retrieved 2008-07-09.
- ↑ "LOS EXTRANJEROS EN MÉXICO, LA INMIGRACIÓN Y EL GOBIERNO: ¿TOLERANCIA O INTOLERANCIA RELIGIOSA?" (PDF) (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-27. Retrieved 2008-07-09.
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Other websites
- California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives – In the Chicano/Latino Collections Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine - University of California Santa Barbara
- California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives – Digital Chicano Art Archived 2009-04-22 at the Wayback Machine - University of California Santa Barbara
- Calisphere > California Cultures > Hispanic Americans Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine - University of California System
- ImaginArte – Interpreting and Re-imaging Chican@Art Archived 2011-08-15 at the Wayback Machine - University of California Santa Barbara
- Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race (book)
- Mexican-American.org – Network of the Mexican American Community
- Mexican Americans MSN Encarta( Archived 2009-06-19 at the Wayback Machine 2009-11-01)
- Think Mexican – News, Culture, and Information on the Mexican Community Archived 2015-06-27 at the Wayback Machine
- Mexican Americans - History - World Culture Encyclopedia
- Mexican Immigration to the United States
- Article: Mexican Immigrants in the United States | migrationpolicy.org
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