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![Mexican Americans and the Question of Race](/sites/default/files/styles/spotlight_detail_3_/public/images/spotlight/A14RQvd7nRL.jpg?itok=UUb2njqx)
Julie A. Dowling
With Mexican Americans constituting a large and growing segment of U.S. society, their assimilation trajectory has become a constant source of debate. Some believe Mexican Americans are following the path of European immigrants toward full assimilation into whiteness, while others argue that they remain racialized as nonwhite.