Anti-Mexican sentiment
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Anti-Mexican sentiment is prejudice, fear, discrimination, xenophobia, racism, or hatred towards Mexico, its people, and their culture.
"No Dogs, Negroes, Mexicans" was a policy enforced by the Lonestar Restaurant Association throughout Texas.
The hanging of Josefa Segovia (Juanita) in Downieville 1851. In complete disregard of her identity, she came to be known as "Juanita" after her death, a stereotypical name for a Mexican woman.
The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of racial attacks in June 1943 in Los Angeles, California, between Mexican youths and European American servicemen stationed in Southern California.
Anti-Mexican protesters in Santa Barbara, California, 2006.
Josefa Segovia
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Josefa Segovia, also known as Juanita or Josefa Loaiza, was a Californio woman who was lynched by hanging in Downieville, California, United States, on July 5, 1851. She is known as the first recorded
Anti-Mexican sentiment
…lynched, of which 64 in areas that lacked a formal judicial system. One particularly infamous lynching occurred on July 5, 1851, when a Mexican woman, Josefa Segovia, was lynched by a mob in Downieville, California. She was accused of killing a man who had attempted to assault her after he had broken into her home…
Artist's impression of Segovia's hanging, from William Downie's Hunting for Gold, published 1893