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Mexican American

[ mek-si-kuhn-uh-mer-i-kuhn ]

noun

  1. a citizen or resident of the U.S. of Mexican birth or descent; Chicano.


adjective

  1. of or relating to Mexican Americans or their culture; Chicano.
  2. Mexican-American, occurring between the United States and Mexico:

    The trade agreement lead to an increase in eighteen-wheelers crossing the Mexican-American border.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Mexican American1

First recorded in 1950–55
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Example Sentences

She asked about “all the mumbo jumbo” — the transmission information — at the top of the document; I was more interested in the content: records from the 1930s that detailed a shameful chapter in Los Angeles history — repatriation campaigns that targeted Mexican and Mexican American families.

According to George J. Sánchez’s L.A. history “Becoming Mexican American,” Los Angeles lost a third of its Mexican and Mexican American population during these campaigns.

They could have been deported simply for being Mexican American.

“If you tell a people so many times that they are horrible and criminals, they will turn away from their own people and run towards whiteness,” Maria Hinojosa, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Mexican American journalist and founder of Futuro Media, posted on X after the elections.

It would also mean that the 14th District, which takes in heavily Mexican American areas such as Boyle Heights and El Sereno, would not have a Latino representative for the first time since 1985, when Richard Alatorre won the seat.

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