chicano in English

noun
1
(in North America) a person of Mexican origin or descent, especially a man or boy.
Until the late 1970s, Los Angeles's Pico-Union district was populated by Mexican immigrants, Chicanos , African Americans, and European Americans.

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1. Artwork by Chicano Movement “Artivist” Mario Torero

2. Chicana and Chicano Studies is also known as Mexican American Studies

3. Chicaners chicanery chicanes chicaning chicano chicanos chicas chiccories chiccory: Literary usage of Chicana

4. Chicano Chicanery: Short Stories and millions of other books are available for Amazon Kindle

5. In the 1960s, activist Chicano Artists forged a remarkable history of printmaking that remains vital today

6. Chicano or Chicana is a chosen identity of some Mexican Americans in the United States

7. Chicano or Chicana is a chosen identity for many Mexican Americans in the United States

8. The East Los Angeles Walkouts or Chicano Blowouts were a series of 1968 protests by Chicano students against unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District high schools.The first walkout occurred on March 5, 1968

9. The Brown Berets have been active across a range of specific issues important to Chicano

10. Chicano, feminine form Chicana, identifier for people of Mexican descent born in the United States

11. The Chicana/o studies major provides a unique opportunity to serve and understand the Chicano/Latino community

12. Feb 15, 2020 - The Brown Berets (Los Boinas Marrones) are a pro-Chicano organization that emerged during the late 1960s

13. UNM's Chicana and Chicano Studies program is designed to enhance our student's analytical, critical thinking, communication, cross cross-cultural competency

14. A Chicana and Chicano Studies major enhances student analytical, critical thinking, communication, cross-cultural competency, leadership, and problem-solving skills.

15. A Chicano will scoff at this and say that such Mexican-Americans have been brainwashed by Anglos and that they’re Tio Tacos (Uncle Toms)

16. Chicana feminism emerged in the 1960s out of the gender inequalities Chicanas experienced during their active participation in the Chicano civil rights movement

17. Chicana and Chicano Studies is also known as Mexican American Studies and is also one component of Latino Studies offered at other colleges and universities in the United States

18. Chicano Student Walkouts or Blowouts, the protests voiced concerns over run-down campuses, overcrowding, corporal punishment, lack of college prep and culturally-relevant courses, and teachers who were poorly trained, indifferent or racist

19. A Chicana movement began as a series of actions through which women organized collectively in the late 1960s and 1970s to challenge unequal treatment within the Chicano civil rights and power movements of that era

20. ‘Frances presently serves on the board of the Chicana / Latina Foundation of Northern California and the Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy.’ ‘A third brief came from 22 members of the British Parliament, and a fourth was offered by the Chicana / Chicano Studies Foundation in California.’

21. Alienated from the predominantly male-led Chicano movement, Chicana visual artists in the late 1960s and 1970s took up so-called "women's issues" like birth control, childcare, and equal pay as they articulated the unique concerns of working-class Chicana women.

22. ¡Chicana Power! provides a critical genealogy of pioneering Chicana activist and theorist Anna NietoGomez and the Hijas de Cuauhtémoc, one of the first Latina feminist organizations, who together with other Chicana activists forged an autonomous space for women's political participation and challenged the gendered confines of Chicano