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    Mexican Tortillas

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    are two distinct foods that are quite different in how they are made and how they reflect each culture. A Mexican tortilla is a flat circle of cooked ground corn or flour that is used to hold other ingredients like meat and vegetables. It is prepared by mixing mashed corn or flour with water‚ salt‚ and baking powder. Occasionally‚ mineral

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    meant to be. I am Mexican and Native American. My mother and father always told me to be myself and to listen to no one. How could I have been myself at the age of 7 when disrespectful people always told me things that I possibly would have not know? I was 10 years old and a girl in my class that was Native American bullied me because I didn’t know very much about the Native American culture‚ I didn’t dress like her‚ speak like her‚ or look like her. On my mother side we are Mexicans

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    Mexican Cholos

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    This Friday I went to the session titled “Orale Ese: the Mexican Cholo”. While watching the girl present her topic based on the stereotype of Mexican Cholos‚ lower class Mexican commonly associated with gangs‚ represented heavily inaccurately in movies and simultaneously applying the Latino Threat Narrative to her research paper. I honestly went in very unaware of her topic and uninterested‚ however watching her present her completed topic and the process she when through to achieve that final topic

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    Many historians today believe that the American Civil War could’ve been avoided. They believed that if better leaders were elected‚ the division between the North and South could have been prevented. The views on democracy from America could have resolved disputes as well. Others say the war could have been avoided‚ but a major conflict was bound to happen. Some of the events that led up to the Civil War include the Mexican-American War‚ the dispute over the 36o30’ line‚ and the Fugitive Slave

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    to society constantly pushing them off to the side. Mexican-Americans‚ like many other ethnicities‚ were viewed as an inferior group compared to the white Americans. During this movement‚ there were a lot of important actions that took place from farm worker rights‚ education‚ and the political movement that change the course of how Mexican Americans should be treated and given the same equal opportunities as any other race. The Mexican American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960’s united the Latino

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    Mexican Maquiladora

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    discourses‚ the gender oppression is further linked to other forms of the exclusion l. In the Mexican maquiladora case‚ their gender oppression is linked to exclusion of nationality‚ the Mexican women. In the Sangtin collective‚ their gender oppression is linked to casteism‚ the poor Dalit women. In the case of Microfinance loans‚ it is connected to material wealth‚ lack of resources for women. (b) In the Mexican maquiladora case‚ the project’s goal

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    1929‚ between 400‚000 and 500‚000 Mexicans and their American-born children returned to Mexico. More than half of these departed from Texas. (The term Mexican is used in this article to refer to all Mexican-heritage repatriates‚ although a significant number of them were Mexican Americans since they had been born in Texas. For Mexican Americans‚ the term repatriate is actually inaccurate‚ for one cannot be repatriated to a foreign country.) Depression-era Mexican repatriation from Texas began in 1929

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    Mexican Eugenics

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    America‚ for example; Argentina‚ Chile‚ and Mexico. Eugenics began after the Mexican revolution when the general population started developing diseases. Although Eugenics in Mexico had a different form than the U.S‚ it had the same base theory on how to improve humanity. It had a great impact on improving the Mexican people through education‚ public health‚ and in serve situation the forcefully sterilization. During the Mexican revolution of (1910-1917) Mexico lost a great amount of people during and

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    Mccarthyism In The 1950's

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    During the era of the 1950’s‚ at the height of the Cold War‚ McCarthyism arose as a result of fear of the spread of communism in the United States. McCarthyism‚ named after Senator Joseph McCarthy‚ was a term which described the lack of evidence and false accusations used against people who were considered communists. Arthur Miller wrote the Crucible because he wanted to show how the relationship of McCarthyism in the 1950’s and McCarthyism in the witch trials during 1692 because the danger of people

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    Consumerism In The 1950's

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    The 1950s was an exciting time for many‚ the war was over and the economy began to flourish once more. Men were back home and ready to work and women were back to doing their womanly duties again (cooking and cleaning) this reflected the social position of the women following the war. The 1950s was all about family and being home and the clothing changed because of it. Women were back at home no longer needing to work and wearing clothing that would prevent them from doing anything but womanly tasks

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