Example sentences for: mexican-

How can you use “mexican-” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Half of California’s Mexican-American (chicano) population lives in central Los Angeles, but you’ll find the full range of the city’s ethnic population — represented by comestibles — at Grand Central Market, north of Pershing Square.

  • Some Mexican-Americans refer to themselves as "Chicanos ," a pejorative term from the 1920s for lower-class Mexican immigrants that was embraced in the late 1960s and early 1970s by Mexican-Americans seeking a new political identity.

  • In March 1994, she won a Grammy for best Mexican-American album.

  • As the "Chicano" label fell out of vogue, many of its supporters joined forces with the "Latino" camp, accusing the "Hispanic" partisans of grouping Mexican-Americans under their rubric to inflate their numbers.

  • Self-reported race/ethnicity was categorized as non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, Mexican-American, or other.


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