Mexican American

Educational Plan (IEP) Meetings and Mexican American Parents: Let 's Talk About It” written by Loretta Salas, highlights some keys disadvantages that Mexican American parents face. In retrospect, I feel that these same dilemmas can be extended to several different foreign-speaking parents. The article highlights several major issues having to do with the American education system. Not only those it focuses on the issued of under-representation of Mexican Americans, but the under-appreciation of…

The Annexation of Texas and The Mexican American War The U.S. - Mexican War began on April 25, 1846 and ended when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed on February 2, 1848. It followed the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico deemed part of its domain, even after the 1836 Texas Revolution. However, conflict between Mexican guerrillas and U.S. troops continued for several months after the war ended. The last of the American troops left Mexico on August 2, 1848. In 1845, the…

Stereotype of African and Mexican Americans Stereotype of minorities has been around since the 1800’s and is still prevalent today. Both African and Mexican Americans have struggled with this very affliction throughout their lives. Many of these stereotypes are assumptions made by others based on a person ethnic background. Prejudice becomes tied into these stereotypes and a decision is made based on the color of a person’s skin. According to Schaefer (2015), “There was nothing musical about…

The Mexican-American War was a struggle between Mexico and the United States. On April 25, 1864 the war began and it ended on February 2, 1848. President Polk played a huge role with the United States government’s relations with the Mexican-American War. Polk was strictly a democrat and elected President in 1844 as the dark horse candidate. Before Polk was elected president he served in the Tennessee legislature and the U.S. Congress. Not all American’s were supportive of the Mexican-American…

Ethnic Labeling and Identity among Mexican Americans In Buriel’s essay, he writes about the ethnic labels that the Hispanic population has dealt with in the past. He starts off by defining ethnicity as an individual’s membership in a group sharing a common ancestral heritage. In his article, Buriel states that the population is biologically Mestizo, which is a genetic mixture of European Spanish and New World Indian. Early on, there were labels put on the Mestizos and by the 1800s’ they…

The Mexican-American War killed thousands of American and Mexican soldiers. The Mexican-American War marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil.(https://www.history.com/topics/mexican-american-war).The war was over the fact that America annexed Texas while it was independent from Mexico. The Rio Grande also had a very big part of the war because it is where some the first battles began. In 1821 Mexico became independent from Spain, Mexico at the time owned Texas and…

The United States most Shameful war Some may think that the death of few people may not cause a war, but the slaughter of 17 American soldiers caused the US to react in a barbaric way. A battle called Thorntons Affair is a battle that may have sparked the war with Mexico. The US was in the leadership of James K. Polk during the Mexican-American War. The United States was not justified in going to war with Mexico because, the US invaded California and Texas, the agreed border of Texas and Mexico…

Preceding the post World War period, undisguised discrimination against Mexican Americans had disseminated amongst the Southwest regions. Often classified as substandard to American society, individuals of Mexican ancestry were underrepresented as constituents in the board of jury. In Jackson County of Edna, Texas, for the last twenty-five years, any individual attached to distinctive indicators of Spanish heritage such as a Spanish surname were denied admittance into serving jury. Consequently,…

usually very little educational or cultural significance. Seeing as Mexican-American Ethnic studies was not drawing enough student interest, some schools had begun to drop Mexican-American ethnic studies from their course catalogue. The results of this action came as a shock, as many individuals were outraged and took action in many different manners, barring the question: should educational institutions consider reinstating Mexican American Ethnic…

(site). This paper focuses on Mexican Americans in the United States (U.S.). The cultural domains being focused on will include statistics, workforce issues, nutrition, communication, spirituality, physical and mental health, and death. Since 2012, within the U.S. Mexican Americans make up about 11% of the population, totaling 33.7 million. The age range among this group is very broad but the median age of Mexican Americans is 17, compared to 25 for Native Mexicans…