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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

Lara family, Mexico, Exodus, United States, Mexican-Americans

College

Humanities

Department

Spanish and Portuguese

Abstract

The Office of Research and Creative Activities funded research into the history of my family and their experiences as Mexican-Americans. I was able to investigate what life in Mexico was like for my great-grandparents and their children. Through investigating the manner in which they lived, I was able to understand the reasons for their exodus to the United States. They fled from Mexico to the United States in 1927 while the Cristero Revolt raged in their small city. I was able to discover how this revolt affected their lives in Mexico, how their journey to the United States was accomplished, and what life was like for a new Mexican immigrant to the States in the late 1920s.

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