Mexican American
Dual North American
A Mexican American is a U.S. citizen or resident of Mexican descent.
The term encompasses people born in Mexico who immigrated to the United States and their descendants born on American soil.
Mexican Americans constitute the largest Hispanic subgroup in the United States, concentrated especially in the Southwest.
The term is sometimes hyphenated: Mexican-American cuisine, Mexican-American communities.
- LatinoLatin American by heritage
- ChicanoMexican-American with activist heritage
- SpanglishHybrid of two languages
- code switchingMixing tongues mid-conversation
- borderlandsTerritory near a boundary
brown pride · Tejano · lowrider · quinceañera · Cinco de Mayo · bilingual education · immigrant communities · Day of the Dead · Hispanic heritage · DREAM Act · carne asada · mariachi · Native Hawaiian · conjunto · Hispanic literature · Selena · Pacific Islander · zoot suit
- American EthnicityPuerto Rican, Hispanic, Latino, Chicano, Chicana
- LatinoCuban, Puerto Rican, Colombian, Dominican, Peruvian
- Latino identitiesLatino, Latinx, Hispanic, Cuban, Puerto Rican
Mexican AmericanAnglo-American
British and American combined
WASP · Native American · European American · White American · African American