Outlaw Citizenship

2018 ◽  
pp. 29-62
Author(s):  
Alberto Varon
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The U.S

This chapter analyses perhaps the most prevalent figure associated with Mexican American manhood, the bandit. This chapter argues that, in contrast to most understandings of the bandit as an anti-U.S. criminal, Mexican American bandits developed cultural values that allowed Mexican Americans to incorporate into the U.S. nation. This chapter proposes the bandit as a figure that “cleaves” Mexican Americans to citizenship, playing on the contradictory meanings of the term cleave to both sever and adhere. Cleaving then becomes a way of conceptualizing the relationship between Mexican American manhood and citizenship throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Abstract TP182: Stroke Outcome in Mexican American Immigrants and Non-Immigrants

Stroke ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (Suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lewis B Morgenstern ◽  
Lynda Lisabeth ◽  
River Gibbs ◽  
Sehee Kim ◽  
Charles Agyemang
Keyword(s):  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Cognitive Outcome ◽  
Stroke Outcome ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
Corpus Christi ◽  
Project Outcomes ◽  
Stroke Study ◽  
The U.S

Background/Objective: We studied the association of being born outside of the U.S. (immigrant) or born in the U.S. (non-immigrant) with 90 day post-stroke outcomes in a population-based stroke study in Texas. Methods: Stroke cases from 2008-2016 were identified from the Brain Attack Surveillance in Corpus Christi (BASIC) project. Outcomes among survivors included ADL/IADL score (higher scores worse) for functional assessment, 3MSE (cognition, lower scores worse), and NIHSS Score (neurologic, higher scores worse). Weighted linear regression models were used to assess the effect of immigration status on the outcomes. Analysis was completed using multiple imputation and inverse probability weighting to account for differential attrition. Results: Of 935 Mexican Americans available for analysis, 83 were immigrants and 852 were non-immigrants. Immigrants had resided in the U.S. on average 47 years. Immigrants were significantly older (69 vs. 66 years), more likely male (60% vs. 49%), more likely to have atrial fibrillation and have less education than non-immigrants (all p<0.05). No differences in hypertension, diabetes, cholesterol, insurance, smoking or other comorbidities existed. The Table provides the data from the fully adjusted models. Immigrants had better functional outcome (mean difference (MD) = -0.22; p=0.02), and no difference for neurologic outcome (MD= -0.15; p=0.15). There was an association of worse cognitive outcome in immigrants (MD= -5.25; p=0.009), however, the association was explained by attenuated after the adjustment for the lower educational attainment in immigrants (MD= -0.79; p=0.64). Conclusions: In this community, there was no evidence of worse stroke outcome among Mexican American immigrants, who had lived in the U.S. for decades, compared with non-immigrants. Further studies of more recent immigrant populations are warranted.

Fostering Academic Success of Mexican Americans in a BSN Program: An Educational Imperative

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Carole Taxis
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Mexican American Students ◽  
American Students ◽  
Faculty And Administrators ◽  
The U.S

Hispanic/Latinos are the fastest growing minority group in the U.S. and the most underrepresented in the U.S. nursing workforce. Although a body of knowledge is growing regarding factors that foster academic success of undergraduate nursing students of color, there is limited information about Hispanic students in general, and Mexican American students in particular in BSN programs. Explored in this qualitative study, were perceived influences of institutional and interpersonal factors on retention and graduation of nine Mexican American students from a predominantly White BSN program. The key findings include adequate financial assistance, maintaining bicultural relations, and experiencing authentic caring relationships from institutional agents, family, and peers as crucial factors in academic success. Recommendations for nursing faculty and administrators are offered.

English Skills, Earnings, and the Occupational Sorting of Mexican Americans along the U.S.-Mexico Border

2000 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Dávila ◽  
Marie T. Mora
Keyword(s):  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Mexican Immigrants ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Language Region ◽  
Occupational Sorting ◽  
The U.S

While English proficiency enhances labor market outcomes, its role in minority-language regions remains largely unexplored. Employing the U.S.-Mexico border as a minority-language region, we analyze whether English skills differently affect the earnings and occupational sorting of Mexican Americans along the border relative to their non-border peers. We find comparable English deficiency earnings penalties for Mexican immigrants, suggesting that this group responds to English-specific regional wage gaps. U.S.-born men, however, have a larger earnings penalty along the border, possibly reflecting natives’ relative immobility owing to strong geographic preferences. Occupational sorting exercises give credence to this interpretation for native Mexican American females.

OPTIMISM AND SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS: A CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Schutte ◽  
John K. Valerio ◽  
Victor Carrillo
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Factor Scores ◽  
Life Orientation Test ◽  
Life Orientation ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Orientation Test

This research examined the relationship between optimism and socioeconomic status (SES) in a sample (N=245) of Anglo- and Mexican-Americans. Study I found small but significant correlations between both situational (measured by the Generalized Expectancy for Success Scale-Revised; GESS-R) and dispositional optimism (measured by the Life Orientation Test; LOT) and SES. Correlations were stronger for Anglo-Americans than for the sample as a whole and were not statistically significant for Mexican-American subjects. Study 2 used a purely Mexican-American sample (N=254), performed exploratory factor analysis on both the LOT and GESS-R, and correlated the rotated factor scores with SES. A GESS-R factor involving themes of social interaction correlated positively with SES (r=.17). Results are interpreted in terms of cultural differences between the two ethnic groups, particularly in light of the collectivist/individualist culture dichotomy.

They Lynched Mexican-Americans Too: A Question of Anglo Colorism

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-76
Author(s):  
Ronald E. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Domestic Terrorism ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Border States ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Historical Archives ◽  
History Of ◽  
The U.S

The act of lynching in the United States was in fact a form of domestic terrorism perpetrated against darker-skinned Americans. Historians have been pressed to acknowledge the lynching of African-Americans particularly in the Bible-belt South in such states as Mississippi and Alabama. The history of Mexican-Americans lynched by Anglo mobs has been for the most part, ignored by Western historians. Said ignored transgressions occurred frequently in border-states including Texas. Approximately 40 years before the lynching of 14-year-old African-American Emmett Till was the lynching of 14-year-old Mexican-American Antonio Gómez. Both were boys accused of Anglo disrespect. Buried in historical archives, the lynching of Gómez was a Mexican-American manifestation of Anglo colorism. Once informed, social scientists and the U.S. society at-large must then readily admit they lynched Mexican-Americans too!

Social Class and Parenting in Mexican American Families

2020 ◽  
pp. 073112142096484
Author(s):  
David Rangel ◽  
Megan N. Shoji
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
Mexican American Families ◽  
Depth Interviews

Parenting practices are a key mechanism in the transmission of class advantage from adults to children; however, Latinxs have not been a main focus of this work. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 17 middle-class and working-class and poor Mexican American parents, we explore social class patterns in childrearing practices and beliefs. Rather than stark-class differences found in previous work, we observed substantial similarities across social class lines. Our findings suggest that (1) Social mobility experienced by middle-class parents complicate class-based parenting beliefs. (2) Variation in parenting approaches in the same household mitigates class distinctions. (3) Mexican Americans’ shared contextual experiences and cultural values minimize social class differences in childrearing. These findings reshape the literature on class differences in parenting and show how social class and race and ethnicity impact childrearing beliefs and practices that are better illuminated when studied as a process.

The US–Mexico War

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar Valerio-Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mexican War ◽  
Mexican American War ◽  
The Us ◽  
Northern Territories ◽  
United States Mexico ◽  
The U.S

The United States–Mexico War was the first war in which the United States engaged in a conflict with a foreign nation for the purpose of conquest. It was also the first conflict in which trained soldiers (from West Point) played a large role. The war’s end transformed the United States into a continental nation as it acquired a vast portion of Mexico’s northern territories. In addition to shaping U.S.–Mexico relations into the present, the conflict also led to the forcible incorporation of Mexicans (who became Mexican Americans) as the nation’s first Latinos. Yet, the war has been identified as the nation’s “forgotten war” because few Americans know the causes and consequences of this conflict. Within fifteen years of the war’s end, the conflict faded from popular memory, but it did not disappear, due to the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War. By contrast, the U.S.–Mexico War is prominently remembered in Mexico as having caused the loss of half of the nation’s territory, and as an event that continues to shape Mexico’s relationship with the United States. Official memories (or national histories) of war affect international relations, and also shape how each nation’s population views citizens of other countries. Not surprisingly, there is a stark difference in the ways that American citizens and Mexican citizens remember and forget the war (e.g., Americans refer to the “Mexican American War” or the “U.S.–Mexican War,” for example, while Mexicans identify the conflict as the “War of North American Intervention”).

Language as a representation of Mexican American identity

English Today ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 44-48
Author(s):  
Carmen Fought
Keyword(s):  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Mexican Immigrants ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Minority Ethnic Group ◽  
American Population ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Mexican American Population

Demographic data indicate that the English of Mexican Americans is destined to play a key role in the sociolinguistic study of language variation in the United States. In fact, Mexican American speakers are reported to account for more than 12.5% of the U.S. population. In 2003, the U.S. Census released data showing that Latinos and Latinas had replaced African Americans as the largest minority ethnic group in the U.S., and by 2007, 29.2 million Americans listed their ancestry as Mexican (Pew Hispanic Center, 2009). Moreover, in addition to the large numbers of Mexicans (first generation) and Mexican Americans (second generation) living in the Southwest, we are now seeing a new representation of these ethnic groups in other areas, such as the South. For example, between 1990 and 2000, North Carolina experienced a higher percentage of growth in its Mexican American population than any other state (Wolfram, Carter & Moriello, 2004).These statistics are important with respect to language because they reveal that a large and increasing population of English speakers in the U.S. are Latinos and Latinas of Mexican origin. Our notion of American English, then, must be extended to include the variety traditionally spoken by the children of Mexican immigrants in the U.S., generally referred to in the literature as Chicano English. In addition, if we look at the Mexican American population as a whole, we will find a number of other varieties of English spoken.

scholarly journals RISK AND RESILIENCY IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WIDOWHOOD AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS AMONG OLDER MEXICAN AMERICANS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S817-S818
Author(s):  
Zhen Cong ◽  
Yaolin Pei ◽  
Bei Wu
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Functional Limitations ◽  
Intergenerational Support ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This study investigated the association between widowhood and depressive symptoms and the extent to which the association is contingent upon immigration status, functional limitations, financial strains, and intergenerational support, among older Mexican Americans. A sample of 344 parent-child dyads reported by 83 older adults in a city of West Taxes completed the measures for socioeconomic status and depressive symptoms. Clustered regression analysis showed that widowhood elevated the risk of depressive symptoms. Living with functional limitations, having more children and residing in the same city with children exacerbated the adverse effects of widowhood on depressive symptoms. Residing in the same city with children increased the detrimental effects of widowhood on the depressive symptoms among men, whereas this pattern did not appear among women. The findings highlight the heterogeneity of depressive symptoms among the widowed Mexican American older adults.

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