Carlos M. Jimenez
The scope of The Mexican American Heritage encompasses tens of thousands of years, from the prehistoric native peoples as they make their way across continents to become the 'Indians' of Mexico, to the extremely advanced civilizations of the Toltecs, Aztecs and Mayans; the coming of the Spaniards to Mexico and the birth of the Mestizo people and culture; Mexico's fight for independence from Spain; the 19th century wars between Mexico and the United States; Mexico's epic Revolution of 1910 with its mythic figures such as Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa who forged the basis of today's Mexico; the northward migration of millions of Mexicans back into the Southwestern United States; the Mexican teenagers of the 1940's (zoot suiters); the Chicanos of Cesar Chavez's farmworker movement, and the struggle of Mexican Americans as they fight for a better life and proper representation in a modern and evolving democracy.
