Reconquista (Mexico)

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Reconquista was coined as a facetious term, popularized by Mexican writers Carlos Fuentes and Elena Poniatowska, to describe the demographic and cultural reemergence of Mexicans in the Southwestern United States.

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. Since then, the term has been adopted by immigration reform groups to characterize the irridentism of certain Mexicans. ^[1]

The concept has also been advanced by Chicano nationalists to describe plans to restore the mythical Aztlán, though 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]

[edit] See also

• Hispanic supremacy
• Manifest Destiny
• Revanchism
• Irredentism
• Chicano nationalism
• Nativism
• White Nationalism

[edit] External links

• 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
• http://www.mexica-movement.org

[edit] References

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