Company E was all Mexican-American because they were not American enough.
There will be three parts to the story; this is the first part, and the second and third parts include where an all-American Japanese unit comes to help the 141st.
Dead or in Prison by Eighteen
Recuerdos de un Chicano When I was sixteen, I got a traffic ticket. I thought the ticket was wrong, so I did something I suppose was already characteristic of me.
The US went to war for land and slaves
You won’t find it in our history books, but one reason—perhaps one of the major reasons—the United States invaded Mexico may have been slavery. Mexico had abolished slavery, and thousands
A Mexican Will Never Be President
Recuerdos de un Chicano When I was a boy, a teacher asked the class a question adults often ask children. What do you want to be when you grow up?
The Texas County That Ordered All Mexicans Out
In September 1856, white residents of Colorado County, Texas, became convinced that hundreds of enslaved people were preparing to rise against them. The alleged plan was terrifying if you were
Proud to Be Brown
How young Texans with little money and a lot of shoe leather built La Raza Unida — and what Texas Democrats might learn from them today When I was a
Manuel Barrera’s World War II Medals
For years, I wondered what those medals meant and why my dad received them. Those seven bars- I had no idea why they were there. I finally took the time
Ain’t that some shit, Republicans complaining about Bobby Pulido not being woke.
Republicans Say They Hate Wokeness—Until Bobby Pulido Is Not Woke Enough Republicans have spent years telling Americans that liberals are too sensitive, political correctness has gone too far, and nobody
Thank you, Jolanda Jones and the Houston Chronicle, for doing to our children what the segregationists used to do to us.
Thank You, Jolanda Jones and the Houston Chronicle, for Doing to Our Children What the Segregationists Used to Do to Us I grew up in a different America. The schools
Chicago gave Prohibition its bodies. The Mexican border got blamed for the violence.
Rum-Runners in the North, Bandits in the South My brain prefers escalators to stairs, so let us take the easy route into this history. During Prohibition, Americans wanted liquor. Canada
The Woman You Hear but Do Not See
The man on the album cover is holding the accordion (YouTube video below). The woman is nowhere in sight. Then track fifteen begins. Two women sing “Caricias Soñadoras,” an old
How Many Years Did It Take a Mexican-American Child to Reach Third Grade? In Texas, it could be ten years.
https://indd.adobe.com/embed/f9a1dc48-4730-412d-a50d-eb89854dcfa2?startpage=1&allowFullscreen=true About This Article This five-part history examines how Texas schools delayed, separated, tested, transported, and sometimes quietly pushed Mexican-origin children out of public education. It begins with one puzzling
Balde González: The Hidden Sound of South Texas
______ Balde González: Frequently cited as a master of the jaiton orchestra style, Balde González brought a suave, nightclub-ready elegance to the Texas-Mexican music scene in the 1940s and 50s.
La Terraza: The Conjunto Hall Corpus Christi Forgot
Corpus Christi had places where almost everyone felt welcome. Galvan Ballroom had its polished dance floor and orchestra tradition. Domingo Peña brought major shows to the Coliseum. The Carousel mixed
Early Tejano/Norteño Sound: one of the first groups to play, and their music is at the Smithsonian.
Ramiro Cavazos died in McAllen on July 2 at the age of 99. His name may not be familiar to most Texans, but the sound he helped carry across dance
The first European immigrants who came to America before Jamestown and Plymouth Rock were my ancestors.
The story is faction (reconstructed as not all things are recorded) but the expedition was recorded. There is even a poem about it. Pedro and Catalina were immigrants before Jamestown
We Were Here First. We Ain’t Going Nowhere.
Chala Vato, we ain’t going nowhere. There is a story Americans like to tell about California. First there was empty land. Then Americans came west. They found gold, built cities,
The Tortillas Hollywood Left Off the Cattle Drive
You can leave people out of the movie. You cannot erase the fact that they were there. I grew up watching cowboy movies. After a long day on the trail,
Starr County: Four Hundred Years of Solitude
How an ancient web of families survived empires, borders, and outsiders Starr County survived four hundred years of solitude because nobody there was ever truly alone. The Web Beneath the
Markwayne Mullin – the White man who is Native American
The Trail That Did Not Lead to a Card My family followed a different trail. It began in New Mexico in the 1600s, around Albuquerque and Bernalillo, in a country