She has acted with Sean Penn and Robert Duvall in Colors, a film about gangs in Los Angeles, with Edward James Olmos and Lou Diamond Phillips in the critically acclaimed drama Stand and Deliver, and had the lead role in the made-for-television movie Sweet 15, portraying a young Mexican American teenager preparing for her quinceañera.
Such programs usually focus on targeting women and underrepresented minorities (e.g., African Americans, Mexican Americans, Native Americans and mainland Puerto Ricans).
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Don Cheto (La Sauceda, as "El Hombre del Vozarrón" ("the loud-voiced man"), is a fictional Mexican American radio and television personality widely known throughout Mexican American Pop culture.
He became friends with many politicians, including Lewis Wesley Cutrer, Roy Hofheinz, and R.E. "Bob" Smith, and was the first Mexican American to serve on the board of the Houston Housing Authority.
Casamayor fought Mexican American Robert Guerrero at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, on July 31, 2010.
On January 7, 2011 González will fight the undefeated Mexican American Brandon Gonzáles in Fairfield, California.
Their Dogs Came With Them follows the lives of 4 Mexican American young women living in East Los Angeles during the 1960s.
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She wanted to tell the story of every Mexican American living in East Los Angeles during the political and social upheaval of the 1960s-1970's.
Gustavo Adrián Ruelas Aguilar (born March 18, 1991 in Fontana, California) is a Mexican-American soccer player .
Chalky Wright (1912-1957), born Albert Wright, Mexican-American featherweight boxer and world champion
Chavez is of Mexican-American heritage, she grew up in small town of Eloy, Arizona and joined the Girl Scouts as a child; her family later moved to Phoenix, Arizona.
Aurora Castillo (1914–1998) was a Mexican-American environmentalist from Los Angeles, California.
After the conclusion of the Mexican-American War in 1846, the town of Mesilla was established sometime around 1850 on the Mexican side of the newly established Mexican-American border, by refugees from former Mexican territory that had been ceded to the United States.
-- odd spelling supported by source, twitter account name, etc. --> Marie Gomez (born March 2, 1997), known better by her stage name Becky G, is a Mexican-American hip hop singer, rapper, songwriter and dancer from Inglewood, California.
Roberto Pulido Jr. (born April 25, 1971), better known as Bobby Pulido, is a Mexican-American Tejano music performer who was born in Edinburg, Texas.
Burton Edward Grossman (died November 12, 1999) was a Mexican-American international businessman, health and education promoter, who served as chairman and CEO of Grupo Continental, a holding company established in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, in 1964, that owns and operates 46 corporations dealing with soft drinks, sugar refining, mineral water, cooling systems, plastics, an mainly bottling factories for The Coca-Cola Company in Mexico.
Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story, a film directed by Jordan Mechner, tells the story of how a Mexican American community was destroyed to make way for a low-income public housing project.
As a result, the Mexican-American studies program as taught by Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) came under scrutiny and was found to be in violation of the law by Tom Horne.
The Chicano Moratorium was a movement by Chicano activists that organized anti-Vietnam War demonstrations and activities throughout the Southwest and other Mexican American communities from November 1969 through August 1971.
In the mid to late 1990s, the Republican members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus – Mexican-American Henry Bonilla of Texas and Cuban-Americans Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Lincoln Diaz-Balart of Florida – left the Caucus in protest over its support for improved relations with Cuba.
Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega, said that, as a Mexican American, he deeply resented "being called a racist and branded a white man," to which Brown replied, "you all look alike to me."
Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera released in 2011 Joyas Prestadas, a double album consisting of a collection of eleven tracks originally performed by other singers, whom made them notable back in their original release.
William Duncan Smith, United States Army officer who fought in the Mexican–American War
Edgar Eduardo Castillo Carrillo (born October 8, 1986, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States) is a Mexican-American association football player.
Emmanuel Y Linda is a Mexican-American Alternative & Modern Pop duo, from Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, formed in 2010.
The duo consists in Emmanuel Espinosa, a Mexican producer, musician and songwriter, known by his work with singer like Marcos Witt, Jesús Adrián Romero, and his wife Linda Moreno De Espinosa (American name Linda Espinosa), also the former leaders of the Mexican-American Rock & Worship band RoJO.
Starting from 1984 the Latin field was expanded to Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album, Best Tropical Performance and Best Mexican/Mexican American Performance.
In 1848 General George Cullum, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, introduced a rubber coated fabric inflatable bridge pontoon which was used in the Mexican-American War and later on to a limited extent during the American Civil War.
Directed by Armsey, the program offered grants to Native American and Mexican-American students studying for doctoral degrees, and was later expanded to include black students.
James Luna (born 1950) is a Pooyukitchum (Luiseño) and Mexican-American performance artist and multimedia installation artist, living on the La Jolla Indian Reservation in California.
In 1972, Valdez, who is of Mexican-American descent, qualified for the U.S. national team by defeating future world light-heavyweight champion Eddie Mustafa Muhammad.
Jesús lost close fights to undefeated Mexican American Mike Alvarado, then to former WBC and IBF Light Welterweight champion Devon Alexander.
Coto was born in Miami, Arizona, one of four children, to Mexican-American parents.
John P. Gaines (1795–1857), lawyer, U.S. Representative from Kentucky, Mexican-American War officer, Governor of Oregon Territory
John J. Herrera, American attorney, activist, and leader in the Mexican American civil rights movement
In historical-fiction, Riley features in James Alexander Thom's novel St Patrick's Battalion: A Novel of the Mexican-American War, pub.
He may have passed on some of his views to Ramón Ortiz y Miera, who came to study under him in Durango in 1832, and later was repatriate commissioner after the Mexican-American War.
This was the first time a Mexican American competed in this endurance race known to many as the Nürburgring of off road racing in Germany.
José Carlos Ramírez (born August 12, 1992 in Avenal, California) is an undefeated Mexican-American professional boxer in the Light Welterweight division.
Josefa Segovia, also more commonly known as "Juanita", was a Mexican-American woman who was lynched in Downieville, California on July 5, 1851.
Samora was the first Mexican American to ever receive a doctorate in sociology; and, by the end of his academic career, he was named Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame.
Justin Harvey Smith (1857–1930), American historian, specialist on the Mexican-American War
1993 - KUT celebrated its 35th anniversary and—in partnership with UT Austin's Center for Mexican American Studies and with major initial grants from The Ford Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting—launched the national radio series Latino USA at a "Cinco de Mayo" reception in Washington, D.C., with President Clinton in attendance along with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and cabinet secretaries Federico Peña and Henry Cisneros.
The nickname "Mississippi" originated in the Mexican–American War when future Confederate president Jefferson Davis was appointed Colonel of a Mississippi volunteer regiment; the Mississippi Rifles.
The future marked a key turning point for Mexican American women, as the Chicano Movement and Civil Rights Movement was emerging, and women's role in society was beginning to change.
The Niños Héroes, six famous soldiers during the Mexican-American War.
Pacific Coast Campaign, United States naval operations against targets along Mexico's Pacific Coast during the Mexican-American War
Ray Rosas is a Mexican-American professional wrestler, who is currently working for several independent wrestling promotions but is best known for his work with Championship Wrestling from Hollywood.
Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon (b. 1962 in Guadalajara, México) is a Mexican-American composer and chair of the composition department at Eastman School of Music.
Roy Mitchell-Cárdenas (born 1977), Mexican-American musician and author
His nickname, "Carlos", is derived from the similarity between "Setanta" and "Santana", the surname of the Mexican-American guitarist Carlos Santana.
The Mexican American community was outraged and several attorneys challenged Judge Fricke's decisions: George Shibley, Robert Kenny, Clore Ware, Ben Margolis, John McTernan, Carey McWilliams (journalist), and several others.
A member of the Sureños (Spanish for "Southerners") group of Mexican American street gangs
The title character is a beautiful horse (a breed, the Appaloosa) of Matt Fletcher (Marlon Brando), a Mexican-American buffalo hunter who returns home only to have his beloved horse stolen by a powerful bandit, Chuy Medina (John Saxon) with the help of the bandit's girlfriend, Trini (Anjanette Comer) in the border town of Ojo Prieto.
Ximenes was raised in the town of Floresville, Texas, where he, along with the Mexican American community, were subjected to racial segregation.
Wilmot Proviso, a rider on an 1846 appropriations bill meant to prevent slavery in territories acquired in the Mexican-American War