Hundreds of years after the meeting of the indigenous and the colonial mind, the birth of the Mexican pueblo began to revitalize the land with a new vivid culture. Oppressions from the wealthy, ruling class, both the Mexican and the predatory United States of America, continued. The power of our beauty once again intimidated the white hegemony that had been violently imposed onto us for generations.

Use this tab to learn about the oppressions that came out of the American westward expansionist mind, the Anglo hunt for Mexicans, their lives, lands and labor.

Mexican Americans

The Tejano Community

The Lynchings of Persons of Mexican Origin in the United States

Becoming Latinos: Mexican Americans, Chicanos, and the Spanish Myth in the Urban Southwest

Negotiating Conquest: Internal Colonialism and Shared Histories in the South Texas Borderlands

Homing Pigeons, Cheap Labor, and Frustrated Nativists: Immigration Reform and the Deportation of Mexicans from South Texas in the 1920s

Invisible Borders: Repatriation and Colonization of Mexican Migrant Workers along the California Borderlands during the 1930s

 Mass Deportations of Mexican Americans 1930s (video)

Frontier of Dissent: El Regidor, the Regime of Porfirio Díaz, and the Transborder Community

My Father’s Charrería, My Rodeo: A paisa journey