M

Macias, Frank, 103

Madirosian, Rev. Vahac, 228

Madrazo, Carlo S., 181 -82

Magana, Rev. Manuel, 151 -52, 153

Malabar project (Los Angeles), 231

Manes, Hugh, 235

Manning, Timothy (archbishop of Los Angeles), 254

Mansfield, Mike, 266

MAPA (Mexican American Political Association), 14 , 97 , 98 , 99 , 144 , 196 -97, 258

Marquez, Lorenzo, 51

Marriage on the Rocks (film), 178

Martel, Ray, 197

Martinez, Arnold, 129 , 200

Martinez, Pete, 109

Martinez, Thomas M., 232 - 33

Maullin, Richard, 148 , 149

Mayo, Herbert, 172

MAYO (Mexican American Youth Organization), 254

McGraw, Bill, 67 -68

McWilliams, Carey, 19 , 250

Media:

Latino journalists in, 5 , 37 ;

newspaper versus television, 9 -10;

police relations with, 244 -46;

Spanish language, 29 , 30 ;

stereotyping by, 232 -33, 248 , 256 .

See also Los Angeles Times

Mendez, Benito, 69

Mendez, Pablo, 15 , 68 , 69 , 70

Mendez Arceo, Sergio (bishop of Cuernavaca), 253 , 254

Merchants and Manufacturers Association (Los Angeles), 8

Merrill, Malcolm H., 77

Mesa, Antonio, 85

Mestizo: defined, 176

Mexicali, 79 , 211

Mexican American Agricultural Protection Association, 154

Mexican American Anti-Defamation Committee, 232

Mexican American Citizens Committee of California, 98 -99

Mexican American Education Conference Committee: antibracero resolution of, 118 -19, 122

"A Mexican-American Hyphen" (Salazar), 33 , 237 -39

Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, 218

Mexican Americans:

and acculturation debate, 90 -91, 106 , 126 -28;

African American issues and, 113 -14, 117 -18, 220 , 221 -23;

African Americans' coalition with, 144 -46;

antibracero movement of, 19 , 20 , 118 -19, 121 -24, 131 -32;

biculturalism/bilingualism of, 16 , 70 , 91 -92, 105 ;

and Chicano movement, 1 , 13 , 26 , 236 , 243 -44, 261 -62;

in city incorporation movement, 51 -57;

on county grand jury, 233 -35, 263 -64;

and Democratic party, 13 , 98 -100, 116 , 143 -44, 257 -58;

drug usage by, 201 -3;

education level of, 114 -15, 123 , 124 , 198 , 202 , 267 -68;

education reform efforts by, 14 -16, 25 , 82 -83, 126 -28;

employment status of, 114 , 115 , 124 , 147 , 197 , 198 ;

ethnic ambivalence of, 86 , 87 -88, 237 -39, 250 ;

ethnic distinctiveness of, 233 -35, 250 ;

and housing discrimination, 148 -49;

income of, 93 , 121 , 124 , 147 -48;

Lyndon B. Johnson and, 13 , 116 -22, 131 ;

as L.A. founders, 239 -40;

L.A.'s disenfranchisement of, 95 -96;

in legal system, 224 -27;

media's representation of, 232 -33, 248 , 256 ;

and 9th Council District, 80 , 81 -82;

police treatment of, 2 , 70 n, 241 , 245 ;

political weakness of, 96 -100, 102 -3, 237 ;

population data on, 55 , 92 , 94 , 95 , 122 , 123 ;

residential segregation of, 16 -17;

as school dropouts, 68 -71, 82 -83, 89 , 106 -7;

schools' treatment of, 83 , 106 , 125 , 193 , 194 -95, 255 -56;

Southwest roots of, 16 , 27 -28, 84 , 87 , 91 , 194 ;

Spanish-speaking immigrants versus , 241 -42;

successful, 101 -2;

as Times journalists, 5 , 37 ;

and tuberculosis, 89 , 92 -93;

university enrollment of, 208 -9, 219 -20, 221 , 222 , 231 ;

in urban renewal protest, 149 -53;

youth conference on, 112 -13.

See also Chicano movement; Domestic farmworkers

"Mexican-Americans in Urban Public High Schools" (Sheldon), 71

Mexican American Unity Congress, 258

Mexican American Urban Center (East Los Angeles), 209

Mexican American War. See U.S. Mexican War

Mexican Civic Patriotic Committee, 55

Mexican Indians, 24 , 175 -77

Mexican Revolution (1910), 17 , 173 , 174 , 254 n

Mexicans:

as braceros, 18 , 19 ;

as farmworker commuters, 72 , 73 -75, 210 -11;

Indian heritage of, 175 -76;

Octavio Paz on, 243 , 244 ;

racial stereotyping of, 153 -54;

as undocumented workers, 73 -74, 131 , 251 -52, 253 ;

as U.S. immigrants, 124 , 125

Mexico:

anti-government movement in, 179 -80;

border cities of, 57 -58;

censorship in, 177 , 178 , 179 ;

Indians in, 175 -77;

population explosion in, 253 ;

university education in, 181 ;

U.S. relations with, 17 -18, 57

Mexico City:

anti-Diaz Ordaz demonstrations in, 179 -84;

Porfirio Diaz' burial in, 173 , 174 ;

Olympic Games in, 24 -25, 186 , 188 -90;

Anthony Quinn film in, 177 -79;

Salazar in, 21 , 23 -25, 63 ;

Tlatelolco massacre in, 24 , 185 , 187

Michael, Donald N., 70

Miller, J. J., 137

Mills, Billy, 145

Miranda, Mike, 78 -79

Mitchell, Robert, 153

Mondale, Walter, 267 , 268

Monroe, Steve, 199

Monterey Park, 53 , 148 -49

Montes, Miguel, 263

Montez, Carlos, 215 , 216 , 234

Montez, Philip, 142

Mora, Ray, 113

Morales, Dionicio, 75 , 90 , 104 , 123 -25, 153 , 154

Moreno, John, 97 , 145

Moreno, Jose, 85

Moreno Martinez, Jose, 166

Moreno Sanchez, Manuel, 182

Morse, Wayne, 125

Movie industry, 196 -97

Moynihan, Daniel P., 248

Murphy, Ellis P., 199 , 200

Murphy, George, 153 -54

Murphy, Mark, 37