History of Mexican Americans
HISTORY EXAMINING MEXICAN AMERICAN OR MEXICAN EXPERIENCE IN THE UNITED STATES
History of Mexican-Americans; Chicano history; History of Mexican Americans in California; Mexican-American history
Mexican American history, or the history of American residents of Mexican descent, largely begins after the annexation of Northern Mexico in 1848, when the nearly 80,000 Mexican citizens of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico became U.S.