RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook Mexican American (redirected fromMexican-americans) Mexican American n. A US citizen or resident of Mexican ancestry. Mex′i·can-A·mer′i·canadj. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth ...
Black and Brown: African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910 –1920That those two movements were linked should come as no surprise. As Horne documents, revolutionary Mexico inherited a nineteenth-century tradition of opposition to black slavery and of inviting black colonization efforts. In ...
Hispanic Americans, people living in the United States who are descendants of Spanish-speaking peoples. Since most Hispanics trace their ancestry to Latin America, they are also called Latinos. Hispanics make up the largest ethnic minority in the United
Under the yoke of imperialism and mounting political corruption and internal unrest, especially the Taiping Uprising, the Qing Dynasty collapsed in a revolution led by Dr. Sun Yat-sen in 1911. The new Republic of China, under the leadership of Sun, his dictatorial successor Chiang Kaishek, ...
In addition to the Loyalists fleeing the American Revolution, Canada became a sought-after destination for American farmers in search of cheaper land. By 1812, about 60 percent of the population of Upper Canada was comprised of non-Loyalist colonists from the United States. Loyalists and British ...
Members of the post-World War II baby boom generation are leading the revolution in food tastes. Contributing to the nation’s changing diet are the trend toward smaller households and an increase in the median age, both of which tend to lead to increased use of restaurants and prepared foods...
In 1779 Congress sent Major General John Sullivan on what has become known as the Sullivan Expedition to neutralize the Iroquois threat to the American side. The two allied nations were rewarded, at least temporarily, by keeping title to their lands after the Revolution. The title was later pur...
On A Constitutionalist Note...“The time is now near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves.” Father of Our Country - George Washington 1776...
To clarify: when the whites were massacre[d] during the Haitian revolution, that was a good thing indeed. George Ciccariello-Maher, Associate Professor of Politics and Global Studies, Drexel University, Philadelphia, December 25, 2016 Meanwhile, in the echo chamber of late-night TV -- ...
A Miami native, the 53-year-old was born in 1971 to Cuban immigrants who fled the Batista regime in 1956, two years before Fidel Castro took over through the Cuban Revolution. Although Rubio obtained citizenship through his birth, his parents didn’t become naturalized citizens until 1975. ...