Mexican expatriates parade with the Mexican flag in New York. Photo credit: Gustavo Garcia.
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Mexican nationals represent the second-largest modern diaspora. Today, there are about 12 million Mexican nationals living outside of Mexico, 97% of whom live in the U.S. However, this represents just one segment of the Mexican American population. /1
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Lifetime Achievements in Tejano Music
Johnny Canales (2025)
Ruben Ramos (2024)
Patsy Torres PhD (2024)
Shelly Lares (2023)
Sunny Ozuna (2023)
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Bobby Pulido (2024)
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Marine Corps Pfc. Harold Gonsalves, World War II Medal of Honor recipient. Photo credit: U.S. Marine Corps.
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United States Marine Corps Private First Class Harold Gonsalves was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic action during the Battle of Okinawa in WWII. The Trump “administration” has removed his photo from federal government content./1
Dino Enrique Piacentini’s story “Mexican Goodbyes” is featured in Issue 325 of @onestorymag.bsky.social and on our reading list for #NationalHispanicHeritageMonth! Order the issue here:
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Notice about El Primer Congreso Mexicanista in La Cronica.
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On Sept. 14-22, 1911, hundreds of community leaders, journalists, and citizens from both sides of the border gathered in Laredo, Texas, to attend El Primer Congreso Mexicanista and discuss issues faced by Mexican Americans. /1
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Entertainers in Tejano Music
Bobby Pulido (2025)
Bobby Pulido (2024)
Shelly Lares (2023)
Jesse Turner (2022)
AJ Castillo (2021)
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Screen shot from a grainy film of the Antifascist Women's March. Film posted on YouTube by the City of Tampa.
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On May 6, 1937, more than 5,000 mostly Latina women marched in Ybor City and downtown Tampa, Fla., to protest fascism in Spain and around the world. The Antifascist Women’s March was one of the largest demonstrations led by Latinas in U.S. history. /1
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Tejano Next Music Artist
Elijah Ezequiel (2025)
El Gallo Dez (2024)
Gabriella Martinez (2023)
The Homeboyz (2022)
Sonja De La Paz 2021)
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An array of chiles grown in New Mexico. Photo credit: NewMexico.org.
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Do you enjoy New Mexico chiles? I know I do. And for that, we can thank Mexican American horticulturist Fabian García, who has been described as the “father of the New Mexican food industry” because of his pioneering work. /1
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Tejano Music Artist
Intocable (2025)
Grupo Frontera (2024)
Siggno (2023)
Intocable (2022)
Siggno (2021)
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Mexican Americans wait to be repatriated to Mexico in the 1930s.
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Between 1929 and 1936, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were repatriated or deported to Mexico. The Mexican Repatriation program was presented as a means of opening up jobs for Americans but was actually driven by nativist sentiment. /1
Albert Báez.
Left to right, Pauline, Mimi and Joan Báez.
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Albert Báez was Mexican American physicist who co-invented the X-ray reflection microscope for examining living cells. He was also the father of Pauline, Mimi and Joan Baez, all of whom became musicians and activists. /1
Cuban-born interdisciplinary artist Ana Mendieta. Photo credit: The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC; Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co.
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Ana Mendieta was an influential Cuban American artist and a pioneer of land art and feminist art. She is known for her “earth-body” artwork, which explores themes of the female body, cultural displacement, death and transformation. /1
David Sanchez, co-founder of the Brown Berets. Image source: Los Angeles Public Library.
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In 1967, David Sánchez and Carlos Montes founded the Brown Berets in East Los Angeles to combat discrimination and fight for equality and community rights for Mexican Americans. They modeled the group after the Black Panther Party. /1
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Tejano Social Media
Gabriella Martinez (2025)
Gabriella Martinez (2024)
Isabel Marie (2023)
Shelly Lares (2022)
Stefani Montiel (2021)
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Cesar Chavez was a civil rights and labor leader who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association.
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Traditions are a significant part of everyone’s culture. During the Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with Paletas event hosted by the Association of Latinx American Students (ALAS), we asked a few students to share their favorite Hispanic tradition.
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Ellen Ochoa. Photo credit: NASA.
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Ellen Ochoa is best known for being the first Hispanic woman in space. But she is also an engineer, researcher, noted inventor and a longtime advocate for women and minorities in STEM. /1
Ruben Salazar.
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Ruben Salazar was a pioneering Mexican American journalist and columnist for the Los Angeles Times. His life was tragically cut short in 1970 when he was killed by a sheriff's deputy during the Chicano Moratorium protest. /1
Paquito D’Rivera’s LETTERS TO YEYITO is on our #NationalHispanicHeritageMonth reading list!
This memoir, published by Restless Books, is “a fascinating tour of a life lived in music, and a useful guidebook for aspiring artists everywhere.” restlessbooks.org/bookstore/le...
Students in a segregated Mexican school sit for a class photo.
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Eight years before Brown v. Board of Education, there was Mendez v. Westminster. In that case, the Ninth Circuit ruled that the segregation of Mexican Americans in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment. /1
In this debut collection, Diana Rojas’s “characters grapple with their self-perception as they consider what they’re supposed to be and who they want to be.”
Read LITANY OF SAINTS: A TRIPTYCH from @artepublico.bsky.social this #NationalHispanicHeritageMonth:
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