| 单词 | Mexican |
| 例句 | The Mexican girls stared at him before bursting into laughter. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z In Oklahoma they call these Mexican standoffs, where everybody has a gun on everybody else. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z That was proof that Mexicans were filthy, they said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “He’s an honorary Mexican because he’s so popular in Mexico.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Some buy Mexican clothes or ones sporting the name of a Mexican soccer team. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Like many of the generals on both sides, Lee and Grant served together in the Mexican War. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Southwest for several thousand years after their domestication in Mexico, and Mexican chili peppers and chenopods never did reach it in prehistoric times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I got to see some interesting parts of the world from the cockpit of an F-86, all the way from the Mexican border to the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why, because he’s Mexican? Actually, we were working at the mayor’s house. Maybe you think I got stoned with the mayor?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Josiah was surprised that a Mexican woman had spoken to him, and he gave her the paper without looking at her face. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The hot New Mexican sun singed his exposed skin. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I realize how different and creepy a lot of Mexican folklore is. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z There had to be Mexican surfers in that resort part Mong told us about. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z That seems incredible to us, until we reflect that ancient Mexicans lacked domestic animals to hitch to their wheeled vehicles, which therefore offered no advantage over human porters. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Mexican songs were constantly punctuated by irrelevant spotshots nobody listened to, such as the “German Press Review” and a show featuring a well-known beauty queen talking to teen-agers about their diets and their pimples. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was just like the kind the Mexican Indians made, he said, only they made theirs out of cactus that went right on blooming with bright red flowers. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The Mexican bartender had gone home, and now the white man who owned the place was behind the bar, dusting off the bottles with a rag. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “It’s Pippi with a Mexican twist. To remind me that I shouldn’t let others decide who I can be.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z The oldest corn cobs are barely more than half an inch long, but Mexican Indian farmers of A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He swatted the burro across the rump with a black horsehair quirt, the kind the old Mexicans used to braid; dust from the burro’s hide flew up around Harley. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes alone, sometimes with my brother and sisters, I would find myself near the altar amid two or three hundred children, many of them dressed like Mexican cowboys and cowgirls. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Mexican bar, Dad had an air of relaxation which I had never seen visit him before. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Juan, the Mexican boy, was my partner, and although he couldn’t dance any better than I, we were a sensation on the floor. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Mostly, it’s a bunch of Mexican ladies sitting in a circle, complaining about their problems and talking about how God will help them endure. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It made me sad when Mexican farm workers were transported along that same road, like cattle packed in the backs of trucks, calling out to us to please marry them and rescue them. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But we always end up back at his apartment, under or on top of the Mexican blanket. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z For a moment I felt swept up by that glance into the Mexicans’ company. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I do not search Mexican graveyards for ties to unnamable ancestors. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The wages those Mexicans received for their labor were only a measure of their disadvantaged condition. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Fact was, when I started looking for work, I noticed that all the laboring jobs were held by Mexicans. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The too-small primary schools and the split grades that meant Mexican kids were always and forever behind. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z They take buses across Guatemala to the Mexican border. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Whenever he got close to finding the jar, his dad would put on this Mexican mask a neighbor bought him and he would throw Mateo onto the couch for an epic fight. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The Mexican federales followed and just took the food and livestock that they wanted and things were worse than ever. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “They’re going around calling everyone a terrorist. Even the Indian and Mexican kids.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z “I’ll believe it when I see them ten thousand rockets arrive with the one hundred thousand Mexicans and Chinese on them.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Mexican nicknames are as cruel as they are hilarious. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He had enjoyed his Mexican holiday, and still was unable to proffer a bit of kindness to the woman who had waited patiently, busying herself with housewifely duties. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But the Mexican authorities wouldn't let them cross the border until they paid the tax on their recently sold car. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z It’s a Mexican restaurant that serves rice and beans and I’m happy to finally get to eat something familiar. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I became Alice Evans’s regular bathroom partner—we worked out a secret signal so that she wouldn’t have to do the Mexican hat dance anymore. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Many of my classmates knew I was Mexican and those who did not found out when I participated in Junior Scandals, an annual event sponsored by the junior class. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z When Salvador made no reply, the heavyset Mexican chuckled and told his companion, “Of course, they plan to do that!” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Soon as we got back down to the beach with a big bag of Mexican food I told Rondell: “In a couple more days, man, me and you are takin’ a bus up to Fresno.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “Dirty Mexicans. I heard a man at the oil festival say there were heaps of dirty Mexicans in San Antonio.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The term ‘chaconne’ may come from the sound of the Mexican castanets used to accompany the dance. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He kept pace with her better even than the best Mexican dancers. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z They had served together in the Mexican War and in the old 6th Infantry out in California. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z By combining journalism with anthropology, I’ve tried in previous writings not simply to observe but to participate in the lives of railroad tramps, illegal Mexican immigrants, Kenyan truckers, and even the elite of Aspen, Colorado. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s enrolled in nursing school and works as a waitress at a Mexican restaurant downtown. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Mr. Helm was equally definite: Mexicans, a mustache, pockmarks, four o’clock. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z A World Bank study found that 42.5 percent of Mexicans live on two dollars or less a day. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Nice to meet you,” he says in Spanish, and kisses me on the cheek the Mexican way. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z But the people from the land grants and the people from Laguna and Acoma ignored the signs and hunted deer; occasionally, the Mexicans took a cow. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z If the beans started going bad, we’d just put extra spice in them, like the Mexicans at the LBJ Apartments always did. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z They ask him to protect them against bandits, who rob and beat them; police, who shake them down; and la migra, the Mexican immigration authorities, who deport them. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z As Mexican officials call out their names, the migrants step out of large cells, some with open-trench toilets brimming with feces and urine. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “We can research for our recipe at the food court. They have stands from all over the world. Mexican, sushi, Chinese, bubble tea.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Impoverished mountain-dwelling Mexicans, who usually got around on wormy little burros, were soon cantering through town in high style, straddling blue-blooded Thoroughbreds worth a lifetime of their income. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z De la O was born in Texas, part of a large Mexican American family making a living working in the fields. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “I think that makes you a real Mexican.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z As the flight continues north, look west, at the hills of what are now the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Guerrero. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “My grandma was white and my grandpa black. My mama has pretty light skin. My daddy was white and Mexican and he had green eyes.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It’s also possible that Regina didn’t know who Bobby’s father was if she was having an affair with Nemenyi around the time the Mexican assignation with Gerhardt Fischer occurred. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Anyway, he’s an important figure in Mexican history. It’s important to know about our history, Malú.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z To people accustomed to thinking of maize in terms of dark or light yellow kernels of corn on the cob, the variety in Mexican maize is startling. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Anyway, she recommended a Mexican place that makes it, so this is as authentic as fake chorizo can be.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z You couldn’t miss the guy in the green, red, and white Mexican poncho or the moppy hair covering his face. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I did not want to get in front of the class and risk being laughed at because of my Mexican pronunciation. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He’s holding a takeout bag, and I get a whiff of Mexican food. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Yet Americans have more corn in our diet than Mexicans. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z To clothe the migrants, he circumvents Mexican Customs, which inspects cars and confiscates used clothing coming into the country, in what Padre Leo believes is an attempt to protect Mexican clothing manufacturers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z There was nothing else in this room but a mattress on the floor, covered with a Mexican blanket. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I walked around her, looked her up and down the way the Mexican and Negro girls did when they fought, so tough. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “In Mexican science, maybe. I don’t trust him.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Moon Orchid said that she had overheard Mexican ghosts plotting on her life. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I think her main goal in life is to make me into her ideal Mexican American señorita. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z In early 2005, Sarukhan took an urgent call from New York’s police commissioner about an increase in gang activity among young Mexican men, a sign that they were moving into the underside of American life. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z But my father, he worked all day in a kitchen with Mexicans and Salvadorans. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z What he did not know then was that the Mexicans had reached out to the Restaurant Opportunities Center, a workers’ rights group. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z American Indians and Mexicans had long despised the Rangers for their brutal, shoot-first methods. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z After three years at our junior high school, in a ghetto neighborhood that in-cluded many Asians, Blacks, Mexicans, and other white migrants from the south, we had ended up close to being social equals. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled his hand back and waved it through the air to sum up all the ways the San Antonio schools kept Mexican students apart from whites. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Although still angry over Woolf’s suspension, Howard didn’t want to court more trouble with California racing officials by hiring Woolf for the Mexican race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Except that back home the laborers were colored, not Mexican. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z According to Tommie, when Muff told her that she’d never get that red clay out by slopping things around in the tub, the Mexican girl burst into tears. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The display case beneath the counter was filled with pan dulce, sweet Mexican breads, that I remembered eating when I visited my abuelos. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Like some other Mexican families, my family suggests Mexico’s confused colonial past. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “In transition? What kind of a Mexican mother are you?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z And I can still hear the quiet, indistinct sounds of the Mexican, the oldest, who replied. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “You take these kids out of their schools and put them with blacks from the Southside and Mexicans. . . . They dragged the whole school down. They didn’t want to be here anymore than we wanted ’em. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z For many years, the Mexicans raided our camps and stole away our people. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “It just sounds funny. I didn’t know there were even Mexican punk bands, I guess.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Dewey three was half Mexican with chocolate skin and black bangs. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “A Mexican lady. Speaking Spanish. She asked about a white American girl with short blond hair, traveling alone,” said Donovan. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The journey is hard for the Mexicans but harder still for Enrique and the others from Central America. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z There was no need to pretend in front of those Mexican peasants. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Miranda said when the Mexican girl walked past on her way to the one empty seat at the front of the room. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Brave Orchid phoned her niece and told her to send her mother north immediately, where there were no Mexicans, she said. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Shyly I went over to tell the Mexicans that the patron wanted them to do something else before they left for the day. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She must know they were Mexicans, but she had said nothing. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z As another example, archaeologists originally assumed that Mexican corn, beans, and squashes reached the southeastern United States by the most direct route via northeastern Mexico and eastern Texas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Madame Ratignolle kissed Edna goodnight, and went away, being in truth rather desirous of joining in the general and animated conversation which was still in progress concerning Mexico and the Mexicans. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z First, all the sugar must be chewed out of Mexican gum, then the bartender gives a few slips of paper to the aspirant, who writes either a proverb or a sentimental remark on the strip. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z A man’s pair since, evidently, Mexican girls’ feet don’t grow to size nine-and-a-half. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He looked more like the poster Leo’s mom used to keep in her workspace—that old Mexican bandit Pancho Villa, except with seashells and lobster horns. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Afterward, my dad, my mom, her boyfriend, Ben, and I went out for dinner at my favorite Mexican place, a hole-in-the-wall where they give free refills of chips. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z These two regiments had become friendly during the Mexican Revolution while patrolling the United States border with Mexico the year before and hoped to be fighting side by side in France. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In 1990, Peralta was in the vanguard of Mexican immigrants who bypassed the traditional barrios in border states to work in far-flung cities like Denver and New York. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In that case, the Court concluded that the police could take a person’s Mexican appearance into account when developing reasonable suspicion that a vehicle may contain undocumented immigrants. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I’d rather live in the streets than be a submissive Mexican wife who spends all day cooking and cleaning. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Most of us couldn’t see the Mexican girl’s face from where we sat. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He does not sense when police stop their train in the middle of the central Mexican desert. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The musings of the tlamatinime occurred in intellectual neighborhoods frequented by philosophers from Brussels to Beijing, but the mix was entirely the Mexicans own. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This one Mexican girl with a bow in her hair and patent-leather shoes was in the exact swing Flaca was in the night before. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Tony noticed that Mexicans, who make up the fastest growing immigrant population, have been far less successful at moving up from the bottom than many earlier immigrant waves. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Many other human societies besides those of the Sumerians and early Mexicans—such as those of ancient India, Crete, and Ethiopia—evolved these prerequisites. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She looked like an Aztec goddess, but her face was that of a Mexican girl, the face of our many friends and cousins, a teenager, like us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Some were young, some old, but they were all Mexicans. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z She smiled at the Mexican; he winked at her. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “Michael and I took a train all the way down to Brownsville once, and do you know that there were Mexicans not even thirteen years old waddling around big-bellied?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z We needed the Mexican girl, each in our own way. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Interstate 35 goes from the Mexican border all the way up to Lake Superior, and some of the heaviest traffic is along the two-hundred-fifty-mile stretch between San Antonio and Dallas. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Today at lunch Tommy and the only other Mexican kid, Rene, walked over to where I was sitting, on a cinder block in the far corner of the yard. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z In September he and a Mexican man collected many bricks from up the street and built a big barbecue. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because I am Mexican,” he said, raising his voice and hitting the steering wheel with both hands. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Several hundred miles south of Charles Howard’s estate, an old horse- man named Tom Smith was spending 1935 at a Mexican racetrack, living on a cot in a horse stall. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But Josiah said they would grow up heavy and covered with meat like Herefords, but tough too, like the Mexican cows, able to withstand hard winters and many dry years. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Some of the Mexican guys saw and started whistling and clapping and everybody set down their tools and came walking up to us and patted us on the back. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z It wasn't so common in Marshall, but I had picked it up from mill workers and farm workers that were Mexican. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Political scientists are divided over whether the twenty- five million people of Mexican ancestry in the United States represent an exception to the classic immigrant success story. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z After all, she had crossed into the United States twenty years before, and she had married a pocho, a man of Mexican descent born in the United States. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z “I’m sure Posada would be proud of our students who are performing today,” Principal Rivera concluded, “most of them representing Mexican culture. Please give them your undivided attention and enjoy today’s show.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Indians adopted Mexican crops, and many of them discarded many of their local domesticates, piecemeal; squash was domesticated independently, corn arrived from Mexico around A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Messages sent by the Mexican Army were likely to be in Spanish, for example. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I wondered in this order: was I hurt, was anyone else hurt, would I go to jail, what were the Mexicans saying, and finally, had Dad awakened? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘She could have appeared to anyone in the whole world, but she appeared to a Mexican.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We had gone to see Mexican movies in Fresno on rainy days when it was too wet to pick cotton, but it was always with our parents. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Was there such thing as a Mexican surfer? We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The Mexican War did two good things though. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They were on the north side of town anyway, Little Africa, where blacks, Mexicans, and Indians lived; and the only white people over there were Slav storekeepers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z One morning, I saw a Mexican woman there taking three drumlike containers off a shelf. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z She wore striped socks like Pippi and what looked like an embroidered Mexican dress, the kind Mom owned. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z She had known personally but one Mexican, who made and sold excellent tamales, and whom she would have trusted implicitly, so soft- spoken was he. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z All the Mexican guys were joking around with each other in Spanish and a couple of them even joked with me and Rondell. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z They challenged the sole Mexican waiter, Salomon Paniagua, a former Mexican army officer who, everyone agreed, looked Greek, to stand with them. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z And also: how come her name is Smith when Smith isn’t Mexican? Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Cowardice” brought to mind images of me fleeing a Mexican phone number and a trembling pink sweatshirt, me bailing on my gay friend Fang. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Except in extraordinary circumstances, Mexican immigration agents are barred from carrying firearms. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z None of those uses of the wheel was adopted in the Americas, where wheels are attested only in Mexican ceramic toys. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Next a Mexican American fellow takes over the mike, shuts his eyes tight, and delivers a rapid-fire summary of our debt to the crucified Christ. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Mei-li and the cave and getting chased by the cops and Mong saying I was his best friend and then going swimming and me staring through the Mexican border at the kid selling clay suns. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The farmers most knowledgeable about eastern U.S. domesticates, the region’s Native Americans themselves, passed judgment on them by discarding or deemphasizing them when the Mexican trinity arrived. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I always thought Angie would grow up to be something awesome, like a designer or an artist, but it turned out she was another Mexican daughter who didn’t want to leave home. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z We explored a Mexican house and a redheaded family’s house, but not the gypsies’ house; I had only seen the inside of the gypsies’ house in mind-movies. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving, songs like sobbing. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Concha had explained that it came from the wet backs of Mexicans who stealthily crossed the Rio Grande. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z “My grandmother was a remarkable Mexican with green eyes,” he said. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z They especially liked the wild black persimmons that the Mexicans called chapotes. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z He told about the Appalachian League and the Carolina League and the Pecos Valley League and the Buckeye and the Mexican Leagues. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the teachers were against him and the other Mexican American kids. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Suddenly some men leaped out to meet the Mexicans, and the two groups merged. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Moreover, unlike Willie-Jay, he was not critical of Perry’s exotic aspirations; he was willing to listen, catch fire, share with him those visions of “guaranteed treasure” lurking in Mexican seas, Brazilian jungles. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z However, they are fragmented by geography and by ecology: the Isthmus of Panama, only 40 miles wide, virtually transects the Americas geographically, as do the isthmus’s Darien rain forests and the northern Mexican desert ecologically. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Dewey, for example, had spent two wearying and wasted days trying to trace that phantom pair, the Mexicans sworn by Paul Helm to have visited Mr. Clutter on the eve of the murders. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Little Mexican kids darted in and out of all the cars stuck idling in traffic, selling packs of gum and cigarettes and shaved ice and batteries. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “That sounds lovely,” Velia said sweetly, sounding like a heroine in one of those historical pieces on the arts channel instead of a modern-day girl stranded in the ruins of the Mexican countryside. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z You look superb in the light from the Mexican bar windows. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Brian helped me with it, and together we found garnets and granite and obsidian and Mexican crazy lace, and more and more turquoise. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I started at the Eighty-sixth Street entrance and walked in extremely precise lines, like I was one of the Mexican guys who mow the lawn, so I wouldn’t miss anything. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Not all Mexican people celebrate it, but my grandmother has her whole life,” Fina says. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z With eight other Mexicans he did not know, he crawled through a sewer tunnel that started in Tijuana and ended on the other side of the border, in what Mexicans call El Norte. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Authorities can deport the Mexicans back across the river, but they can send him all the way to Honduras. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The Mexican guy moving just his fingers, making weak fists, rolling off the guy Jimmy, who doesn’t move at all. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z He had never heard it called Texas roping before; he knew it as steer roping, because they used old stringy Mexican steers rather than more expensive cows or calves. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I could not understand why anyone would not like us because we were Mexican. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Or consider the fate of the Mexicans who immigrated to California between 1900 and the end of the 1920s to work in the fields of the big fruit and vegetable growers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z At hearing that voice I was sad for the Mexicans. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Since I’m Mexican and Mexicans were involved in this stupid race war, I figured no one would have listened to what I had to say anyway. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “Mexicans honor the dead. Skull pictures celebrate our loved ones.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z In the next five hours, before immigration agents and Mexican soldiers stopped the train and opened the doors, Zepeda saw seven migrants fall to the floor. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I thought Black Panthers would only look out for black people, but there were the two Mexicans, a little white boy, and a boy who looked both black and Chinese. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I know what that means, of course—I read, duh—but why would you use words like that with a Mexican cleaning lady? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z For the last little shirt she was making for Muff’s baby, she’d cut a bit of muslin out in the traditional Mexican style. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z My grandfather insists on wearing a jacket and tie, even though we’re just going to the Mexican place. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z June pulls four bottles of Mexican Coke out of the cooler under her seat and passes them around, and Henry takes the first sip and practically melts. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z "How will you live without this?" he said as we bit into our burritos. "is there even Mexican food in New York?" We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “Which might help if I were Mexican. To her dad, I’m just another brown kid.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Shin was passionate about food and did his best talking in Korean and Mexican restaurants. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It was the old Mexican fairy tale of the Queen of the Clouds and the witch. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z The Mexicans sat apart when they ate, just as they worked by themselves. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There were a few single women and a few families, all Mexican. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Right-wing think pieces about entitlement thrown in his and June’s direction, reeking of: Mexicans stole the First Family jobs too. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Principal Rivera said Posada represented Mexican people and culture, but what she didn’t tell you is that he represented all people, especially the ones who needed a voice and a way to be heard.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z She moved her eyes away quickly from the tall Mexican with long sideburns. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The Mexican schools didn’t teach cursive, but one of the twins’ teachers had taken an interest and shown them. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Tourists milled around in front of many of them—white, black, and Mexican, all drunk and loud. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I told the little Mexican guy: “Lemme get as much food as this buys me, man. Doesn’t matter what it is. I don’t need no drinks.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z That day, however, Billings and I had only one inmate to transport, a Mexican who had a deportation hearing at an immigration court inside the Downstate Correctional Facility, about an hour’s drive away. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We were then escorted on foot across the border to the Mexican side of Nogales. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I never denied it: My ancestry is Mexican, I told strangers mechanically. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The stacks of Nahuatl manuscripts in Mexican archives depict the tlamatinime meeting to exchange ideas and gossip, as did the Vienna Circle and the French philosophes and the Taisho-period Kyoto school. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But the biggest obstacle by far, and the one that separates newly arrived Mexicans from Greeks, Italians, and most other immigrants—including earlier generations of Mexicans—is their illegal status. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z But he was gone and the Mexicans were gone too; and the sky was deep orange and scarlet, all the way across to Mount Taylor. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The raw oysters he sold on the street were bought by poor Mexicans, never by rich yanqui tourists. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z They hired more than thirty-five thousand unskilled African Americans and Mexicans to work in the mills. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The Mexican guy swinging another wild right, but Rondell deflects it, grabbing the Mexican by his hair and head-butting him right in the face. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z He sits in a hallway at a Mexican immigration holding tank in Tapachula. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Why weren’t we close, ‘more in the Mexican style’? Everyone is so private, she added. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’re in the studio the next couple weekends, but we can go out during the week somewhere. Around here. To the Mexican place?” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z You know, I still don’t really know if I’m a Mexican. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z With each viewing, we cried at the end when the Mexican kids buried Charles Bronson—who, as it turned out, wasn’t Iranian either. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes on rainy days when we did not work, our family went to watch Mexican cowboy movies. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The Mexican police called her death an accident. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z I was a bilingual child, a certain kind—socially disadvantaged—the son of working-class parents, both Mexican immigrants. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The “Mexican wing” of Crockett High School, which was really five dank and crowded basement rooms that no white student ever entered. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah. It’s kind of hard. Not the words. But, you know, what it’s about. I guess Mexicans aren’t the only poor people in the world.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z We called him that because his name was George and he was Mexican. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z If I had to live out the rest of my years sending letters to a Mexican prison, I could handle it. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “What? A Mexican’s trying to join the DAR? Somebody got caught reading the New American Dictionary ?” Mother sighs, says, “Fine,” and moves the gearshift carefully into Drive. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He leads the family to a Mexican beach. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z But Anglo kids called de la O and his friends “spies,” and “dirty, lazy Mexicans.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “Sí,” the Mexican told him, as he examined Salvador and Lupita out of the corner of his eye. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z “Are you asking me to comment on this as a Mexican kid? You know that’s racist, right?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z It looked like one of those trucks that they packed Mexican workers into to haul them to pick cotton against their wills. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He was what the Mexicans called a chongo or “droop horn.” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The girls among us focused on the obvious fact that a Mexican girl who didn’t know how to do laundry had to be just about the most unsanitary creature on earth. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Here among these blackened granite outcrops General Fremont made his stand against a Mexican army, and defeated it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I paced the floor holding my wide-brimmed Mexican hat against my chest to protect it from being crushed. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z He tumbled along with the racetrackers, and soon found himself buying a few nondescript Mexican horses and traveling down to attend their races. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sure,” he said, and his English was colloquial and mouthfilling, “the Mexican Canal is overdue. What the hell? It will get finished just the same, old boy.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z She looked like she might be Mexican, but I had never seen another Mexican punk. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Instead of being placed in protective custody, like the Mexican, Toussaint was being transferred out. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys among us liked to think on how the Mexican girl surely got wet doing the laundry. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The likelihood that a person of Mexican ancestry is an “alien” could not be significantly higher than the likelihood that any random black person is a “drug criminal.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He shows me some pictures in a Mexican magazine. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z She waved the Mexican girl’s enrollment slip like a winning bingo card and trotted to the front of the room. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Being punk meant a lot of different things, just like being Mexican meant many things. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z A green bus half full of Mexicans passed them next. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z They gather around this circle and bellow out bids all day long, like Mexicans at a bullfight. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z The owners saw it as an effort to shake them down, but for the Mexicans it became a class struggle pitting powerless workers against hard-hearted owners. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Besides, there was something about being in those ruins in the Mexican countryside that made anything possible, because that night I believed in us—cinco hermanitas, five little sisters, together forever. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z In the middle of a Mexican tropical jungle, imagine! Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z An early spring sun hung in the Mexican sky on March 21,1934, when Ten Ton Irwin shimmied his 425 pounds through the giant rear door of his sedan and pushed off for Cheyenne. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Three older-model cars with Mexican license plates went by in the other direction, but none stopped at Salvador’s signal. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z “Gael, come here. Why don’t you two show them your dance for the Mexican Independence Day parade? We have a float that features our dancers every year.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z The failure or success of this generation of Mexicans in the United States will determine the place that Mexicans will hold here in years to come, Sarukhan said, and the outlook is not encouraging. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In some areas the original local domesticates were retained alongside the far more productive Mexican trinity, but in other areas the trinity replaced them completely. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even though they were not Mexican and spoke only English, they had many of the same experiences as my family. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The contractor knew enough Spanish, and the Mexicans—or at least the oldest of them, their spokesman— seemed to know enough English to communicate. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Because of the refrigeration, the employees, most of them Mexicans, are dressed in full-length down coats. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But she would not be caught so much as looking into one of the crusty Mexican mercados, let alone venturing inside its smelliness. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When the cops came, he was still gripping the broken bottle in his hand, and watching his own blood flow between the fingers of his fist and drip on the Mexican’s oiled wood floor. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Paramedics from the Mexican Red Cross found him lying by the tracks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He was the roan bull, the one that the droopy-horned chongo had dumped into the Mexican cart the day of the fight. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The colony had first settled there under a land grant from the Mexican government, and the man who led the colonization was a priest, and he was a Luna. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There were also a couple of Irish and English families and one Mexican. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The Mexican Mary ‘honored our people,’ my mother would say. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The busboy and the Mexican who intervened were paid several thousand dollars and the owners promised to promote a current Mexican employee to waiter within a month. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He says it’s not the Mexicans’ fault that the city council would rather spend the city’s money on new arts initiatives and a big, flashy baseball stadium than more police on the streets. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “God,” she whispers, “grant me one wish. Get Mexican immigration authorities to catch Enrique and deport him back to Honduras. Send him back to me.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Tries to shift his focus to the TV, where layer upon layer of monarchs cover the trees in some Mexican forest. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She ran over to Lupita and whispered into her ear, “La migra is here. They have come to raid for Mexicans. Get away! Hurry!” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Soon a little group of Mexicans, a man, a woman, and two half-grown children, came past them. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Matt Creighton’s grandfather had lived through the Revolution; Matt himself had survived the Mexican War; and Uncle Billy Jeffers, down the road, was still alive to tell tales of the War of 1812. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Although the Bush administration talks about legalizing some Mexicans with a guest worker program, there is opposition to another amnesty, and the number of Mexicans illegally living in the United States continues to soar. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z However, those few successes have changed our food habits far less than Mexican corn changed food habits of Native Americans in the eastern United States after A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The agents followed the car to a Mexican restaurant in San Francisco. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d hear strangers on the radio and in the Mexican Catholic church across town speaking in Spanish, but I couldn’t really believe that Spanish was a public language, like English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She engaged in disputes that annoyed the local nobility, and she sold soporific and perhaps hallucinogenic drugs as do contemporary Mexican curanderas. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One of them waved his hand in front of his face like he’d bitten into a Mexican pepper. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was only myself I judged against some shadowy, mythical Mexican laborer—dark like me, yet very different. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z How his cousin would show up in her red Acura and drive us all the way down to the Mexican border. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z He did not philosophize about the law or his responsibilities, but Tom noticed that he always maintained the same manner, no matter whether the prisoners were black or white or Mexican. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Mexican eyes,” he said, “the other kids used to tease me.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z In fact a lot of these gangs base their thing on those Mexican gangs. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The people living on North Third Street were mostly Mexicans and Indians who had moved into the neighborhood after the whites left for the suburbs and subdivided the big old houses into apartments. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Southwest gradually became farmers by acquiring Mexican crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Earlier on this day, alerted by sensor 53, agents caught eleven Mexican men who had been walking across the desert for four days. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Usually he wore faded blue jeans with a flaming Hawaiian shirt, along with sandals and dweebish white socks, looking like he had just spent the night in a Mexican hotel. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At the Mexican side of the bridge, one in ten cars gets a red light and is pulled over for a random inspection. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Me and Rondell were watching these guys surf yesterday. Do you think Mexican people surf?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “You know what I think, Ari? I think Mexicans don’t like me.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z She would like to be able to do that work herself, but even in a Mexican restaurant a waitress must know English. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Experts remain divided over whether Mexicans can follow the same route. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She’d used one like it back in San Antonio when she went with Tía Cuca to wash and sew for one of the wealthier Mexican families. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Samuel P. Huntington, a Harvard professor of government, takes the extreme view that Mexicans will not assimilate and that the separate culture they are developing threatens the United States. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She said that the Mexicans had traced her to this house. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the residents were Mexican field laborers who were American citizens or had immigrant visas like Papa. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She hates that people might mistake me for another poor Mexican. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z That is, I acquired my earliest sense of the Church—and my membership in it—through my parents’ Mexican Catholicism. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And I felt the weight of a son in a Mexican family. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Some Mexicans, those who did not like them, called them ranas pecosas, freckled frogs, but she didn’t care about them one way or the other. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I’d never seen a newspaper back home say such things about people possibly involved in crimes who hadn’t been arrested, but Mexican papers were quick to report speculations. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z He held the hand of a ten-year-old Mexican ballerina and was followed by scores of men and women in the customary clothing of their native cultures. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Like my family, most residents of Bonetti Ranch were Mexican or Mexican American field laborers. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Fearing that the other Mexicans might try to get back at him, Paniagua decided to strike out on his own. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “A family of Mexican vampires,” he said, and hissed. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z “You would have to go to a bookstore, and the person there would surely know that you are a Mexican and call la migra.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Mexicans along the border, he notices, are quick to proclaim their right to immigrate to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Maybe you. And the twins, of course. They’re smart. Everyone says so, even people who think Mexicans are only good for shelling pecans and picking strawberries.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z How lucky they were to find work so soon and friendly Mexicans to help them. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z They have told him Mexican words they have learned. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z "Yes, I can do a Mexican accent. Why?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The Mexicans follow, up a steep embankment, along a well-worn dirt path, past mesquite bushes and behind some tamarind trees, until they are next to a large, round, flat tank. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “You sound like my mom with your sad Mexican story,” I said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z The “No Negroes, Mexicans, or dogs” sign hanging from the diner’s door flashed in his mind. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The Mexicans stood up; the tall one put his cap on slowly and pulled it to one side of his head seductively. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z They were offended to think that any Mexican man would have stooped so low as to be with a Guatemalan woman to create me. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z No, he told the judge, English wasn’t his first language; that would be Nahuatl, the Mexican Indian tongue. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an art book filled with the work of Mexican painters. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z The reasons for that are complicated, and Tony gave them flesh and blood by befriending some Mexican kitchen workers at a restaurant owned by an earlier, successful immigrant from Greece. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z We had truly believed that Mexicans can’t shoot straight and besides were lazy and stupid. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z To evade Mexican police and immigration authorities, the children jump onto and off of the moving train cars. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Her smugglers secure her passage by bribing Mexican law enforcement officers all along the way. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I had the Mexican going on for sure: brown skin and thick brown hair that was lighter than Mom’s but darker than Dad’s and that I usually wore in two braids. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z A few of us decided that she wasn’t a Mexican at all since the little kids weren’t brown. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z At one place there were fistfights; at another a supervisor who hated Chinese and Mexicans. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When the Mexicans were joined by their ally, dysentery, it was godawful. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Many thousands of Mexicans had flooded across the border in search of work. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Many are caught by the Mexican police or by la migra, the Mexican immigration authorities, who take them south to Guatemala. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z A fat Mexican gangster runs in from the backyard with his fists clenched, a smaller one trailing behind. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “I don’t think so? Some Mexican restaurants might have them as dessert.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z He is tattooed with TJ, a symbol of the Mexican mafia; a teardrop, signifying a dead gang friend; and a spiderweb, tucked next to his right eye. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z They were concerned and excited over the approaching football games, but I had in my immediate past raced a car down a dark and foreign Mexican mountain. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Mary Ellis said that the Mexican girl went to Tommie’s church, which was why she was obliged to like her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z They had not bothered to brand the cattle because they had a bill of sale which acknowledged their Mexican brands. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z As he set out on his trip, he noticed another teenager, a gangster named El Brujo, at the bus station in Honduras waiting to go to the Mexican border. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “They wanted these Mexican cattle because they are fast and tough. And no loss to them when they happen to break the legs or the neck.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z They huddled next to the Mexican cop, talking. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “You got your Mexican from Mom and your punk from me,” he’d say. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z When Little Sister had started drinking wine and riding in cars with white men and Mexicans, the people could not define their feeling about her. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A few crops, notably Mexican corn, did indeed spread to the other region in the pre-Columbian era. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He can’t decide if his Mexican blood or his Texan blood is more offended. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z "There is now little doubt," Michael Coe, the Yale archaeologist, wrote in 1994, “that all later civilizations in Mesoamerica, whether Mexican or Maya, ultimately rest on an Olmec base.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Most others believe that recent Mexican immigrants will eventually take their place in society, and perhaps someday muster political clout commensurate with their numbers, though significant impediments are slowing their progress. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z We drove the few miles across the international bridge with the windows down, the wind whipping our hair around our faces, until we slowed down and drove into the aduana, the Mexican customs station. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z A young Mexican who started his shift ten hours earlier climbed out with a bag of garbage and heaved it onto the sidewalk. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z And then she says: ‘Being Mexican doesn’t have to mean you’re poor.' And I just want to tell her: 'Mom, this isn’t about poor. And it isn’t about being Mexican. I just don’t like shoes.’ Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Later, Celia would learn with sadness that the girl had defected while on tour in Oaxaca and was playing a psychotic housewife on a popular Mexican novela. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know how long it took me to get my hair this color? All summer, Mr. Jackson. Mexican hair ain’t easy to dye.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Created in the nineteenth century as a volunteer citizen militia to fight American Indians on the frontier and, later, Mexicans along the border, the Rangers had evolved into a kind of state police force. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Perhaps that says more about me or my Mexican Catholicism than it says about what actually went on in the classroom. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know, growing up, I never felt like I was enough of anything either, or too much of what I wasn’t supposed to be. Not Mexican enough, too nerdy.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Black men, white men, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Jews, Poles, whatever—all were inadequate and weak, all came under their jaundiced eyes and were the recipients of their disinterested wrath. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Not of the crowded corrals, but of the pretty West Side neighborhoods where wealthier Mexican families lived, their houses painted in yellows and oranges and pinks. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z That summer I worked in the sun may have made me physically indistinguishable from the Mexicans working nearby. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Enrique and the gangsters ran past a group of Mexican men standing by the tracks, machetes at their sides. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She blew away freshly buffed nail fuzz, “Oh, and make sure you wash your hands after applying self-tanner. Otherwise, people might think you’re secretly Mexican.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He was seven, freckled dewey was five, and Mexican dewey was only four. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Four months later, three Salvadorans and a Mexican, all in their twenties, were killed. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I made up my mind that year—when I was ten—that I wasn't going to sound like another Mexican. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z “You look Mexican,” one foster brother had told him after Joaquin had to explain that he didn’t know where he was from. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z One thing you figure out quick is America doesn’t play when it comes to letting Mexicans sneak in their country. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The two indisputably independent inventions of writing were achieved by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia somewhat before 3000 B.C. and by Mexican Indians before 600 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My dad is white, and my mom is Mexican. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Her daughter visited her every day, but Moon Orchid kept telling her, “Don’t come see me because the Mexican ghosts will follow you to my new hiding place. They’re watching your house.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She quickly lands a job as a waitress at a Mexican restaurant. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Why did he hesitate to accuse a white man of stealing but not a Mexican or an Indian? Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “I never hide that I am Mexican,” I said. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I enjoyed the rhythm, but I did not pay much attention to the words like I did with Mexican music. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z But several Mexicans, including Peralta, said that they saw Zannikos grab the busboy by the head and that they believed he would have hit him if another Mexican had not stepped between them. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “For the New Mexican Reservation?” he said, and his tone, the face he lifted to Bernard, expressed a kind of agitated astonishment. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Because the migrants try to fool authorities and pass themselves off as Mexican, they carry no identification. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Remembered to see: the starched black and white uniform worn by the maid who opened the door; the Mexican gardeners—their complexions as dark as my own. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “She is a pretty Mexican movie star,” Mamá said, noticing Darlene’s puzzled look. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z As much as I get sick of eating Mexican food every single day of my life, if heaven existed, I know it would smell like fried tortillas. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “You smell like Mexican food,” he says as he hugs me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z A young, long-haired Mexican, wearing a red scarf headband and a yellow vest, got out. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Near the sky-scratchers of The Angels there is a big Mexican market. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z On two occasions, the contractor hired a group of Mexican aliens. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It would alleviate the perception of Odessa High as the “Mexican school,” which was having the inevitable effect of steering middle-class whites away from the west side. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Those were probably Los Angeles boys—they had picked up their hairstyles from the Pachucos, who were some of the young Mexican American boys and men in Texas and Los Angeles. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “They don’t like me. They think I’m—well, they think I’m a little different. They’re really Mexican, you know. And I’m sort of, well, what did you call me?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z So far as Lupita was concerned, the rest of December was a sad time, a period of beloved Mexican holidays she missed observing. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z We had a heavy two-wheeled Mexican cart that Papa used for hauling wood and hay. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Big Mexican guy charges, throws a wild punch that glances off the side of Rondell’s face. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z However, the Sumerians and early Mexicans happened to have been the first to evolve them in the Old World and the New World, respectively. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A colony of more than a million Mexican free-tailed bats lived in the cracks and crevices on the underside of the bridge. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z The Mexican place was better, Jesse said, but this one was farther from work, more private. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She was Mexican, from Veracruz, and her parents disapproved of me. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z There’s a cute Mexican guy with hipster glasses sitting on a bench, nodding along to whatever song is playing on his headphones while he eats ice cream. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z They walked by, carrying their walkie-talkies, sunglasses now up on the Mexican one’s head. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “Maybe we can do a punk version of an old Mexican song,” I said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z “I am proud of being Catholic and Mexican and you must be too.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “Because real Mexicans love cilantro and hot sauce on everything. Especially meat.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z That is not to suggest that the nearly five million Mexicans who, like Peralta, are living in the United States illegally will never emerge from the shadows. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z And how weird is it they put cops all along the border so no Mexicans could sneak in? We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Maybe because their boss expected them to do something once in a while: shoot a coyote or catch a Mexican. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z By happy coincidence, some of their fellow inmates were Mexican gang members with close ties to Colombian drug dealers. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Peralta, like many other Mexicans, is trying to make it on his own and has never severed his emotional or financial ties to home. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z One government worker in the Mexican state of Tabasco, who in 1999 denounced corruption by certain judicial police agents, was dead a few days later in a mysterious car accident. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Mom jokes that it’s my diluted Mexican genes that make it taste soapy to me. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z She went on to explain how on this thirtieth anniversary of the school it was important to remember Posada the man as someone who proudly represented Mexican people and culture through his art. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z History lives, it dies, and it comes alive again as the soaking-wet, mangled, and bloodied corpse of a Mexican ranch hand. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z They were headed for a melting pot, yet neither had spent much time around minorities, other than a few Mexican families who lived in Caldwell. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “There are no Mexicans after you,” she said. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He sits in the seminar room—a man with brown skin, the son of working-class Mexican immigrant parents. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Helen Jean was smiling coyly at one of the Mexicans. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He learned enough English to order burgers and Mexican food and to talk about baseball and the weather with his housemates. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Teachers usually think Mexicans are too slow to bother with.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Nor did Perry, descending the post- office steps with the Mexican box balanced on a shoulder, observe the prowling car and the policemen in it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s go,” I said, as she picked through the bottles of Mexican fruit pop in the beverage cooler. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z But he had also promised to marry Maria, a woman of fifty, who was the widow of a “very prominent Mexican banker.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z We drove off in a new direction and stopped at a small Mexican restaurant called Pepe’s. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The next day when I got to the alley, the Mexican girls were waiting for me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Don’t matter what kind: he’s got white girls, black girls, Mexican girls, Asian girls, whatever you could think up. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The third day of school, some Mexican guys spoke to me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The kind Mexican people like my gramps hang on the front of their houses to bring good luck and welcome guests. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z He told us in Spanish that we were tired ’cause we weren’t real Mexicans like everyone else who was out there picking in his group. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z And the Mexican and Filipino girls at school who went to “confession,” and how I envied them their white dresses and their chance each Saturday to tell even thoughts that were sinful. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z This is the Mission District, a gentrified hotbed of sushi, tapas, hip Mexican restaurants, and upscale furniture stores. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The Mexican blanket was scratchy, which did not bother me: sex was supposed to be unpleasant the first time. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A Mexican couple dressed in matching crisp blue jeans and sweatshirts with a red Reebok logo across the chest step up to the window. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z They are poorer than Mexicans, and they are seen as backward and ignorant. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “The Mexican government denied their immigration papers and reversed their land grant. It was just another dream that went nowhere.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z So do two other migrants, a Mexican brother and sister, waiting with him. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She is seventeen and the only woman among eleven Central Americans trying to sneak around a Mexican immigration checkpoint at Huehuetan in Chiapas. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I don’t know if you’ve ever seen an old Mexican grandma, but she basically looks just like that. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “If you’re going to be a bigot, at least get it right. I’m a Mexican, man, and proud of it. But, hey, you’re just a bunch of stupid bullies, so who cares what you say?” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z “White people are only gonna see you as Mexican, but you don’t even speak Spanish.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He was a fat Mexican from Cubero who was losing his hair. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A few days after I started school, four Mexican girls followed me home and jumped me in an alleyway near the LBJ Apartments. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He had informed A1 Dewey that at approximately four o’clock on Saturday, November 14, the day of the murders, a pair of Mexicans, one mustachioed and the other pockmarked, appeared at River Valley Farm. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He was Mexican American, so he considered himself colored and Indian. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She’s always trying to school me on stuff about Mexico and Mexican American people. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z “It always has to be the Mexican way. México, México. As if the rest of us don’t exist.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z South of the Rio Grande, Indians had converted the Mexican basin and Yucatan into artificial environments suitable for farming. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Until the 1980s, Mexican immigration was largely seasonal and mostly limited to agricultural workers. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Mexican ladies are always trying to feed you, whether you like it or not. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The Mexicans could see she was drunk, and they were already getting ideas about her. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Many Mexican- Americans were consequently shocked when they heard the student activist proclaim himself and his listeners Chicanos. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “They are very handsome, I suppose, those Mexican women; very picturesque, with their black eyes and their lace scarfs.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z She would walk to Skid Row and stand in line with the hobos, the winos, the junkies, and the Mexicans until the farm buses came and the farmers picked out the workers they wanted. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, well, I’m shying away from ancient classical names. And besides, if he has a Mexican name, then maybe he’ll feel more Mexican.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z People lived there, and battles had been fought against the Mexicans on the slopes. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Somebody said he went out West and married one a-them Mexican women, but we never knowed if it was so or not.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The Mexican countermen, dishwashers, and busboys also started their breaks, while the Greek waiters took care of the last few diners. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I locked eyes with this one Mexican kid, about me and Rondell’s age, and I felt like I was lifting off my feet, floating into the air. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The next afternoon I met a Mexican American crop scientist named Ricardo Salvador, a professor at Iowa State University. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z One time he brought in a horned toad that got so mad he swelled out round and flat as a Mexican tortilla and bled at the eyes. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t understand why they fill our television with second- rate Mexican shows and ignore all the potential our people have,” she muttered. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The supporting cast was mostly disenfranchised Indians, Mexicans, and cowpunchers, all of whom possessed horsemanship and livestock skills honed on the vanishing frontier. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I had heard enough Spanish from Mexican workers that following the language wasn’t so hard. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She changes the music to narcocorridos, those horrible Mexican songs about drug traffickers who buy diamond-encrusted guns and cut each other’s heads off. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It was the Mexican government that betrayed and killed Pancho Villa earlier that year of 1923. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She and some girl named Shayla might move to Fort Lauderdale if Shayla’s uncle could get them jobs in his Mexican restaurant. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z They still looked Mexican to me even though their sister insisted they were all Spanish. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “Hurry up!” the young man shouted to the other Mexicans. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z My mother is Mexican and this woman black, yet the emotions that made them cry came from a heart that was tearing apart the same way. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z This woman was a Mexican like herself and as afraid of la migra as she was! Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I was to die, after all, in a Mexican dirt yard. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t blame him — the closest edible Mexican food was probably in southern California. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z A quarter an hour was a decent take, and he was saving for third-class train tickets to the Mexican border, the price of a new life with his girl. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z There are lots of Irish types and Eastern Europeans, and, of course, there are Mexicans. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z A Mexican woman passes in a black dress. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he led us out to this other old Mexican dude wearing a sombrero, said something in Spanish, and they both nodded. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z He listened to Mexican music on the radio, smoked, and consumed more aspirin than food. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z For some reason he remembered the Mexican name for carnations. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z If I eat out at the buffet I can watch the large Mexican families or the even larger, in total body mass terms, families of Minnesota Anglos. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a tangle of brown sheets, one lone swirl of a Mexican blanket, a sad flat pillow in a faded pillowcase. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The juke box was playing a Mexican polka and Harley was dancing around by himself. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Mexican crops finally began to reach the eastern United States by trade routes after A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A little girl’s scream comes out of the Mexican’s mouth as he covers his face and crumples to the rug on Jimmy’s limp body. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z But if Henry heard that people in his town saw her not just as Mexican but as colored, he might try to send her back and keep the twins. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “It means Day of the Dead. It’s a Mexican celebration,” Fina explains. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “Yeah, it might be hard for you to get the hang of a Mexican dance,” Selena said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Mixed in with them were fifties rock-and-roll singers with greased pompadours, and Mexican singers with big mustaches and bigger hats. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z He wore a yellow shirt tucked into white pants, and something about the way he moved reminded me of Jorge Negrete, the Mexican movie star. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Because Mexican racing officials were not bound by the mandate that every horse carry at least 100 pounds, they could give Seabiscuit 130 while assigning other horses fewer than 100 if they needed to. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They talk about how they are both routinely assumed to be Greek, Egyptian, Mexican—even in this misrendering they are joined. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z As if it were normal for a dead Mexican woman and a black boy to sit laughing and talking in a white man’s kitchen. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z But then by fantastic chance he comes upon Mexican duck hunting guides who can speak English. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z First, Linda Cruz made it clear that she was Spanish and not Mexican and she couldn't have colored people at her house either. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z The river marks the Guatemalan border, just as the Rio Grande defines the Mexican border to the north. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I was in the garden on Saturday when the Mexican family drove up in a truck with a dead pig in the back. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Mexican ladies are always knitting doilies for everything—doilies for the TV, doilies for vases, doilies for useless knickknacks. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Unless they thought he had “something to hide”? Maybe he ought never to have mentioned the Mexicans. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The whitest town on Earth—or, more accurately, once the whitest town on Earth until the Mexicans moved in. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “A Mexican is a Mexican is a Mexican,” she said, plenty loud for the rest of us to hear. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z We knew she was a Mexican the second we saw her standing there behind Tommie in the doorway of our senior homeroom. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He was born in the hill country of Texas to the daughter of a single mother and the son of Mexican immigrants, all of them dirt poor—luxury travel is still a luxury. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The Court said that “the likelihood that any person of Mexican ancestry is an alien is high enough to make Mexican appearance a relevant factor.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Waiting for some Mexican guy’s head to peek up out of the water as he swam around the boundary. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Sure enough, right after Mong said it a big Mexican cop wearing sunglasses got out and leaned against his trunk, waiting for us to get up to him. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z I’d watch the Mendozas, the Mexican family next door, arriving home in their pickup loaded with ladders after a long day of painting houses, greeted at the fence by their yapping dogs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Outside, Porfirio is watering the ginger plants, singing a Mexican song. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Most of us couldn’t like the Mexican girl on account of Miranda not liking her, which made it downright dangerous, socially speaking. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Mexican and Mexican American bands and singers we love. We put them right up there to honor them.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Lately music has made me feel more connected to the Mexican part of me. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Roberto must have read my mind because he said, “Why don’t you sing a Mexican song?” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Normally, I wouldn’t be offended by a comment like this—Mexicans are always saying that about kids. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z We hiked through thick sand the opposite direction of Santa Cruz to lay low for the day, stopped about a mile past where the Mexican cop had asked our names. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Both my parents have tried to describe something of what it was like for them to have grown up Catholic in small Mexican towns. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She only gets up to go to the bathroom, drink water, and occasionally eat one of those Mexican cookies that taste like Styrofoam. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z My cousin Matthew was shot five times in the head by a Mexican gang on February 8, 1996. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I imagine this balloon coming loose and chasing a little Mexican girl throughout the streets of Chicago. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Farm ranchers, most of them, they are outdoor folk of very varied stock—German, Irish, Norwegian, Mexican, Japanese. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Some people don’t like Mexicans and wouldn’t vote for them either.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I missed seeing Papá’s eyes water when he listened to Mexican music on the radio and hearing him repeat stories about Mexico when he was young. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Of all immigrants in New York City, officials say, Mexicans are the poorest, least educated, and least likely to speak English. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “I still look more Mexican than you do.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z The stereotype is that rural Mexicans are generous to strangers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Even his name is uncool—Pasqual is the name of an old Mexican man who sits on a dusty porch muttering about his lost chickens. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z When was this affair with this Mexican woman going to end? Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes it just seemed easier to blurt out what Mom calls my pie chart: half Mexican, half fill-in-the-blank with the names of a bunch of different European countries. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z I will never know what the Mexicans knew, gathering their shovels and ladders and saws. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He comes back before crossing the Rio Grande and tells Enrique about riding on trains, leaping off rolling freight cars, and dodging la migra, Mexican immigration agents. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He was also the first Mexican American from San Antonio to attend the University of Texas at Austin. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Panchito doesn’t understand why some people don’t like Mexicans,” Mamá said, walking over and massaging Papá’s shoulders. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z He had made a promise to Josiah to help with the Mexican cattle. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z And though Sagan has exponentially more stars, they twinkle the same here as they did in the New Mexican desert, lying on her black-and-red striped blanket, my cheek resting on her chest. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z When 3 Guys fired Peralta, another Mexican replaced him, just as Peralta replaced a Mexican at the Greek diner in Queens where he went to work next. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z We were just driving on the freeway when a car full of Mexicans drove up next to us. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He was one of those little skinny Mexicans you see out on a soccer field during recess, running all around after the ball, never getting tired. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Lots of section hands went back and forth, Mexicans, some Hindus. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Everybody looks more Mexican than I do. Pick it up with the people who handed me their genes.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z I knew they really loved each other because they continued to date even though her stepfather did not like Mexicans. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z To her surprise, three young Mexican men followed them. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I remember Mom’s friend, Dr. Nguyen, but think Voxy’s tiny closet is way too small to be the universal seed vault where Mom contributed New Mexican corn, squash, and beans. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “It says here the FBI is working with both the border patrol and the Mexican Federales to try and find us.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The language of their Mexican past sounded in counterpoint to the English of public society. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The driver drops off the Mexicans and takes Enrique to a large house. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “There’s a wallet, with an address,” Juanita whispered, pulling the man’s Mexican driver’s license out of the wallet and staring at it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z In contrast to the Catholicism of school, the Mexican Catholicism of home was less concerned with man the sinner than with man the supplicant. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘And over there -’ Frank pointed to a square foundation that looked like the patio for a Mexican restaurant - ‘is the Temple of Hera, one of the oldest structures here.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I asked the Mexican man to turn the car around, again in my exquisite high school Spanish, and it took about fifteen minutes to make myself understood. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The Mexican cattle settled down and moved more slowly, but they still had little regard for fences. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z There were some Mexicans from the section gang drinking beer at a table in the corner and three Navajos slouching on stools at the bar. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “I can’t get that Mexican guy’s bloody face out of my head. His nose was pointing all to the side.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Too warm for the Mexican heat, but practical. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z All of us could see there was something new, something good in the Mexican girl’s life. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Behind our picture is a poster of Maná, the terrible Mexican rock band that I hate, because all their songs are about weeping angels or something equally lame. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “We’re in Mexico and those are real Mexicans in there. These people can party till dawn.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z She spoke with a little bit of a Mexican accent, trilling her r's. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z She was wearing her pink embroidered Mexican blouse, which she usually wore on birthdays and holidays. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Whenever I came near them, they yelled, “You stink like a Mexican!” and sprinted away from me, holding their noses. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z We walk another few blocks and pass a photocopy shop, a shoe store, four nail salons, a Chinese restaurant, and two Mexican restaurants. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z And then he asked me, “Why do Mexicans like nicknames?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z When Cortes and his bedraggled adventurers landed on the Mexican coast in 1519, they might have been driven into the sea by thousands of Aztec cavalry mounted on domesticated native American horses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But a cross word passed between a Greek waiter and a Mexican busboy. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z A second glance told her that the front entrance of the three-story Mexican hotel was deserted. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z In March, an eager Mexican busboy with a heavy accent who had worked there for four years got a chance to wear a waiter’s tie. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z On December 2, he reached the Morelos Dam and the Mexican border. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The mere 700 miles of north—south distance prevented Mexican corn, squash, and beans from reaching the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “But he goes back before the Civil War. He was in the Mexican War.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z John Zannikos asked his Mexican cook for a small salmon steak, a little rare. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Native Mexican women dressed in pale tunics slid their paddles into the lake and rowed slowly, serenely across the water toward what could only be described as densely vegetated islands floating on the water. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Because of such incidents, I listened when my parents remarked that Mexicans were often mistreated in California border towns. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It had a patina, as though from the soles of bare feet in generations, like old silver or the walls of Mexican houses which have been plastered by hand. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I could smell the thing—a sickening combination of wet sheep wool and rotten meat and that weird sour body odor only monsters have, like a skunk that’s been living off Mexican food. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z She absorbs everything she can about Mexico and about Mexicans in the United States. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Though newly arrived Mexicans often work in industries that rely on cheap labor, like restaurants and construction, they rarely organize. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She thought he had a big Mexican family that made tamales on Christmas Eve. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I pictured my heart and ribs blown from glass, tiny air bubbles throughout, like in the documentary about Mexican glassblowers I’d watched with Mom that summer. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z I wanted to call her Rosita, after the prettiest girl in my class, but Mom said that name was too Mexican. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The cows already had big Mexican brands on their sides, extending across their ribs, a brand so big you could see it for a half mile, Josiah said. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A strong Mexican name for a strong Mexican girl. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z “I want a big painting like the Mexicans do, but pro-American,” she specifies. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Whether you were up meeting God, down in Brazil hating Yankees, or out West somewhere loving a Mexican woman, to those left behind, you had just plain disappeared. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z If it had been left up to me, we would have gotten hauled into a Mexican jail that day. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Papá was fair-haired and light-complected, implying a Spanish bloodline rather than native Mexican, but Mamá did have olive skin, black hair, and dark eyes. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Mrs. Franklin blurts out, “Nothing but hillbillies, blacks, and Mexicans over there!” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Running from Mexican officials in southern Mexico, he fell into a puddle. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z One Mexican- American said I was a minority whether I wanted to be or not. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He realized that wasting away on this Mexican backstretch was a brilliant horseman. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z You couldn’t miss the guy in the green, red, and white Mexican poncho or the moppy hair covering his face. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z After Paniagua left, 3 Guys went without a single Mexican waiter for ten months, despite the terms of the settlement. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The older man does not know how tough it is to be a Mexican immigrant in the United States now, tougher than any young man who ever left Huamuxtitlan would admit. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Some Mexicans were dark skinned, Indian from the way they dressed, but some light-skinned Mexicans got on too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Her dress was short, and she wore her hair in Mexican braids, not floating and loose. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Ancient Native Mexicans invented wheeled vehicles with axles for use as toys, but not for transport. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Mexican rail workers have encountered seven-year-olds on their way to find their mothers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z This was no problem, as thousands of Mexicans flooded across the border every day. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl’s godparents are a trustworthy Mexican house painter and his wife. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Before I can ask what a Night Brother is, Elsie holds up the sneakandle to show me her collection of magazine covers, centered around a small Mexican flag, stretching up to the ceiling. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I don’t know if it’s from listening to Lola B so much or from learning about Mexican punk from Mrs. H, but it’s of...cool. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z She has on two heavy rings, one with a turquoise, and chunky square earrings, and a silver bracelet: Mexican silver. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Even the girls had to admit that, Mexican or not, old clothes or not, she was prettier than any girl in school. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z |
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