Talk:Mexican American Political Association

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 20 August 2019 and 6 December 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): GamersRightsActivist. Peer reviewers: Briannamck8, Footballjz32, Dmangooo.

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 1 October 2018 and 14 December 2018. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Alruppert.

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LAT
According to the LA Times article by Ruben Salzar, MAPA's president in 1969 was Abe Tapia. ("Mexican-Americans Threaten Action for Movie, TV Jobs" January 17, 1969), in Border Correspondent. I'm not sure how to reconcile this info with what is already in the article.

Also there was disorganization in the 80s, which is not yet mentioned in this article.--Rockero 19:12, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Presidential Discrepancies
Mapa's Web site has a far different list of the organization's past and current presidents. Nativo Lopez is the current president, yet for some reason this Wiki lists Al Castaneda. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.226.57.23 (talk) 19:42, 4 May 2007 (UTC).

http://www.mapa.org/aboutus.html#history

ASHAMED of mapa
Endorsing a man who is who promotes the killing of our mexican children along with the black and white population. How on earth does this make any sense, except to say your organization is so misguided and deserves not one ounce of credit from the mexican community, hear my words you are part of the problem, I ask that you renounce your position immediately while you still have time or we will have no MAPA in the future, do not overlook this grave fact, and ACT. Mary Ann Nava 71.153.48.81 (talk) 22:48, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Proposed Edits
My goals are to completely rework this article; it's fairly lackluster as is, and the information isn't sorted very well. In my rework, I plan on keeping most of these sections, adding a section on views towards this organization in the Mexican-American community, a section on comparisons with other Latino political organizations in the United States, and adding/fact-checking various pieces of historical information and descriptions of the organization. Below are some of my initial sources; there is not much information on MAPA easily available online:

“Hispanic Interests and Political Representation After World War II (1945–1970).” US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives, https://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/HAIC/Historical-Essays/Separate-Interests/Post-War/.

Leininger, Julie. “MEXICAN-AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONS.” Texas State Historical Association, https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/vzmvj.

Lopez-Garza, Marta. “Los Angeles: Ascendant Chicano Power.” NACLA, 25 Sept. 2007, https://nacla.org/article/los-angeles-ascendant-chicano-power.

“MEXICAN-AMERICAN POLITICAL ASSOCIATION.” Online Archive of California, Online Archive of California, https://oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb1000058w&brand=oac4&doc.view=entire_text.

“POLITICS: Latino Group Finds Itself Supplanted by Newer Organizations.” Los Angeles Daily News, 18 Apr. 2010, https://www.dailynews.com/2010/04/18/politics-latino-group-finds-itself-supplanted-by-newer-organizations/.

Rothenberg, Irene Fraser. “MEXICAN-AMERICAN VIEWS OF U. S. RELATIONS WITH LATIN AMERICA.” The Journal of Ethnic Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, 1978, pp. 62–78. Periodicals Archive Online, https://search.proquest.com/docview/1300541541?accountid=15131.

Teske, Raymond H C, and Bardin H Nelson. “Middle Class Mexican Americans and Political Power Potential: A Dilemma.” JPMS : Journal of Political and Military Sociology, vol. 4, no. 1, 1976, pp. 107–119. Periodicals Archive Online, https://search.proquest.com/docview/1303263960?accountid=15131. GamersRightsActivist (talk) 03:02, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

Feedback

I think you have a good plan; however, I would make sure that you're not doing too much at once. I agree that there are some problems with formatting, especially the Presidents section which has some information which should be in the history or structure sections. I think your planned additions to the page will be interesting and add depth to the explanation. I think it will also be important to add citations where the page says they are needed if you were not planning to do that already. Briannamck8 (talk) 13:50, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

You have a lot of work ahead of you but I do think you make good points as to why you are choosing to rework the entire article. I would say to remain unbiased when adding a section on comparisons with other Latino political organizations in the United States. Make sure that your information presented is purely factual. I'm excited to see your future edits! Dmangooo (talk) 02:13, 23 October 2019 (UTC)


 * It's very hard finding information on this org. I left in some of the more important sounding statements that lack citations in the hopes of eventually finding some. I also want to delve deeper into what the organization has accomplished, maybe adding an accomplishments tab.GamersRightsActivist (talk) 04:41, 6 November 2019 (UTC)