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The term Reconquista was popularized by Mexican writers Carlos Fuentes and Elena Poniatowska to describe the demographic and cultural reemergence of Mexicans in the Southwestern United States.^{[citation needed]} Image File history File links Unbalanced_scales. ... Reconquista is a Spanish and Portuguese word meaning Reconquest. It can refer to the following: Reconquista, the war to drive the Moors out of Spain and Portugal by the Christian rulers. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1012x691, 71 KB) Summary Map of contiguous US, showing percentage of population self-reporting as Hispanic, by census tract, 2000. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1012x691, 71 KB) Summary Map of contiguous US, showing percentage of population self-reporting as Hispanic, by census tract, 2000. ... Carlos Fuentes Carlos Fuentes Macías (born November 11, 1928) is a Mexican writer and one of the best-known living novelists and essayists in the Spanish-speaking world. ... Elena Poniatowska Elena Poniatowska (born May 19, 1932 in Paris, France as Princess Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amelie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor) is a Polish-Mexican journalist and author. ... Regional definitions vary from source to source. ...

The term is employed almost exclusively by pro-immigration enforcement groups to describe what they perceive as a concerted attempt by radical Mexicans and Mexican-Americans to wrest away control of United States territory.^{[citation needed]} The premise of this reconquest is an historical claim to the land prior to the presence of European-Americans. The term does not make a claim for Spaniard-Europeans, but rather, for Mexicans, the majority of whom are mixed-blood and full-blood indigenous-blooded people. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

Historical usage

It was originally a jocular analogy to the Spanish Reconquista of Moorish Iberia, since the areas of greatest Mexican immigration and cultural diffusion are conterminous with northern New Spain and former Mexican territories.^{[citation needed]} This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Since then, the term has been adopted by immigration reform groups to characterize the irredentism of certain Mexicans and Mexican-Americans. ^[1] irredentism is position advocating annexation of territories administered by another state on the grounds of common ethnicity and/or prior historical possession, actual or alleged. ...

The concept has also been advanced by Chicano nationalists of the 1970's to describe plans for the restoration of the vaguely-defined Aztec homeland called Aztlán. These groups do not generally use the word "reconquista". The word does not properly apply to immigration outside territories lost by Mexico in the Mexican-American War following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.^[2] Chicano teenager in El Pasos second ward. ... The seven caves of Chicomoztoc, from Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca Aztlán (, from Nahuatl Aztlan ) is the legendary ancestral home of the Nahua peoples, one of the main cultural groups in Mesoamerica. ... Combatants United States Mexico Commanders Zachary Taylor Winfield Scott Stephen W. Kearney Antonio López de Santa Anna Mariano Arista Pedro de Ampudia José Mariá Flores Strength 78,790 soldiers 18,000–40,000 soldiers Casualties KIA: 1733 Total dead: 13,271 Wounded: 4,152 AWOL: 9,200+ 25,000... The Mexican Cession (red) and the Gadsden Purchase (orange). ...

Modern usage

North America, or Anahuac {ah-NAW-wahk}, the future "Indigenous" nation as described by the Mexica Movement.

In more recent times, the notion of Indigenous liberation has become popularized by the Mexica Movement, a small seperatist group based in Los Angeles, which the Minuteman Project credits as being central to the modern reconquista ideology [1]. Whereas previous groups have advanced the notion of reclaiming only the U.S. Southwest, the Mexica Movement goes further by demanding that the entire North American continent be reclaimed by Mexicans, Central Americans, Native Americans, and Canadian First Nations.[2] Download high resolution version (1624x1748, 474 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (1624x1748, 474 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Political separatism is a movement to obtain sovereignty and split a territory or group of people (usually a people with a distinctive national consciousness) from one another (or one nation from another; a colony from the metropolis). ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... The Minuteman Project Civil Defense Corps was started in April 2005 by a group of American citizens to deter illegal crossings of the United States–Mexico border. ... Map of Central America Central America is a central region of the Americas. ... An independent origin and development of writing is counted among the many achievements and innovations of pre-Columbian American cultures. ... First Nations is a term of ethnicity used in Canada. ...

This non-violent Indigenous liberation of the continent would remove all colonial borders and weld North and Central America into a single super-state called Anahuac. This continental notion far exceeds the Aztlan demands of previous generations.^{[citation needed]} Anahuac is an ancient name for a Mesoamerican, particularly Aztec, area or areas, usually identified as located within or even coterminous with the Valley of Mexico. ...

The Mexica Movement regards the Aztlan concept as error-filled and inadequate. The group seeks to remove all borders imposed since 1492, replacing them instead with continental borders, from Canada to Costa Rica. The organization regards Spanish-imposed borders as "colonial", and hence, irrelevant. Not to be confused with 1492: Conquest of Paradise. ...

The organization regards this "liberation" as a long-term project, involving several generations. The group supports the preservation of the United States Constitution as a transitional legal framework to accomplish their liberation through democratic (and demographic) processes.^{[citation needed]} The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. ... Democracy is a form of government under which the power to alter the laws and structures of government lies, ultimately, with the citizenry. ... A demographic or demographic profile is a term used in marketing and broadcasting, to describe a demographic grouping or a market segment. ...

This process will require a majority-status population of Mexicans and Central Americans, which the U.S. Census Bureau projects will become a reality sometime around the end of this century, assuming fertility and immigration rates remain constant.^{[citation needed]} [3] It is for this reason that the Mexica Movement encourages Mexican and Central American population expansion, both by migration and through high fertility rates. Population decline is the reduction over time in a regions census. ...

The organization also demands the "reverse immigration" of European-descent people "back to Europe."[4]

See also

• Mexica Movement
• Montebello High School flag flipping incident, 2006
• Hispanic supremacy
• Manifest Destiny
• Revanchism
• Irredentism
• Chicano nationalism
• Nativism

This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Montebello High School flag flipping incident, 2006 was a local incident that became a flashpoint for conservative critics of illegal immigration. ... Hispanic supremacy is a racist ideology that holds that Hispanics are superior to all other races. ... This painting (circa 1872) by John Gast called American Progress is an allegorical representation of Manifest Destiny. ... Revanchism (from French revanche, revenge) is a term used since the 1870s to describe political campaigns to reverse territorial losses incurred by a country during previous wars and strifes, sometimes quite distant in time. ... irredentism is position advocating annexation of territories administered by another state on the grounds of common ethnicity and/or prior historical possession, actual or alleged. ... Chicano nationalism is the ethnic nationalist ideology of Mexican Americans. ... The factual accuracy of this article is disputed. ...

External links

• Mexica Movement Non-violent Indigenous rights organization that advocates an "Indigenous liberation" of the entire North American continent, primarily through education campaigns, protest actions and demographic expansion.
• Mexica Movement march Los Angeles, April 7, 2007
• Mexica Movement Recruiting Video.
• CNN: Mexica Movement and other activists attend Riverside, CA summit on immigration issues.
• Lou Dobbs: Europeans to Be Expelled? Lou Dobbs Tonight Video segment showing Mexica Movement at Maywood, CA confrontation with Pro-Borders group.
• Sound file: Jose Pescador-Osuna Claims Mexico is "Practicing Reconquista in California" (2/7/98). "...even though I'm saying this part serious, part joking, I think we are practicing La Reconquista in California...."
• The Voice of Aztlan
• Reconquista 101 (Michelle Malkin commentary)
• Another view of the Reconquista theory
• And an opposing view
• Mexica Movement segment on Univision television network Spanish language description of their plans to retake the entire North American continent

Michelle Malkin (née Maglalang) (born October 20, 1970) is an American columnist, blogger, author and political commentator. ...

References

1. ^ Zeskind, Leonard. "The new nativism". American Prospect, November 1, 2005.
2. ^ Fuentes, Carlos. La frontera de cristal, 1995