Terms
What term, coined by John O’Sullivan in 1845, noted that it was American divine right to expand from “Sea to shining Sea”?
Manifest Destiny
What year was the United States Border Patrol formed as a military force to control the movement of different groups and people into and out of the U.S.?
1924
What is the title of the mural painted by David Alfaro Siqueiros at Placita Olvera in Los Angeles, CA which was later censored with whitewash due to the mural’s depiction of colonial oppression in the Americas?
La America Tropical
______________________ is most often recognized for their theoretical contribution to Chicana/o studies through the text Borderlands/La Frontera.
Gloria Anzaldua
Which major organization was formed in 1970 from the National Chicano Issues Conference?
Comision Femenil Mexicana Nacional
___________ was the name of the mythical homeland of the Aztecs and was perceived by Chicano Nationalists to be in what is now the American Southwest.
Aztlan
In what decade did Mexican settlers, Native communities, and civil and military leaders join to defeat filibusters that were encroaching into Mexican land?
1850s
What Mesoamerican tribal group is considered to have inspired the term “Chicano,” according to one linguistic hypothesis?
The Mexica, also known as the Aztecs
___________________________ considers herself a “Daughter of the Chicano Movement” and has been involved in activist work in Denver for several years.
Nita Gonzales
After El Plan de Santa Barbara was drafted to create a framework for Chicano Studies, several Chicano student groups agreed to change their names and coordinate as a student movement. What was the name of this new student organization?
MEChA
What is a form of discrimination in communities of color that privileges light-skinned people over their dark-skinned counterparts?
a. Regionalism
b. Ethnic Chauvinism
c. Colorism d. Xenophobia
c. Colorism
On August 29th, 1970 tens of thousands of demonstrators came out for ___________________ to protest the war in Vietnam. At this time, this was one of the largest anti-war demonstrations ever organized primarily by people of color in U.S. history.
the Chicano Moratorium
Which artist is known for their work “The Great Wall of Los Angeles, emphasizing the practice of art as community-centered participation?
Judy Baca
The ________________________________ of 1829, named after Mexico’s first Afro-Mexican President (was also the second Mexican President), prohibited slavery in most of Mexico, eventually leading to full abolition by 1837.
"Guerrero Decree" named after Vicente Guerrero
Which college student organization provided support for high school students who organized the East L.A. Blowouts?
UMAS
Which hot drink whose beans were used as currency in the pre-Hispanic Western Hemisphere, originated in Mesoamerica?
a. Chocolate b. Coffee
c. Chai Tea d Hot Apple Cider
a. Chocolate
Jose Vasconcelos coined the term "La Raza Cosmica in the year _____________________ to create a unifying theory for a post-revolutionary Mexican nation-state.
1925
The Aztec Capital, _____________________________ , modern-day Mexico City, is said to have been constructed on an island where an eagle, perched on a cactus was devouring a snake. This Aztec legend and its iconography is still found on the modern Mexican flag.
Mexico-Tenochtitlan
Cherrie Moraga is noted for editing which anthology that incorporated queer Chicana and BIPOC voices?
A Bridge Called my back
The Young Chicanos for Community Action, most often referred to as ___________________ because of their distinctive shifted their focus to include community response to police brutality, and later modeled their platform after the Black Panther Party’s 10-point program
Brown Berets
What process often takes place when there is a gap in the lexicon of a language, often due to encountering a new reality, technology, or modernization, which advances faster than the ability of a language to create neologisms?
Lexical Borrowing
"Mock Spanish" is a concept developed by Jane Hill in the year _______________, who regarded it a subtle way of Anglo racism towards Spanish and its speakers, which includes the phrases “no problemo”, “el cheapo”, and “hasta la vista, baby” as examples.
1995
The __________________________ in the Spring of 1968 were some of the largest high school student-led strikes in U.S. history.
East L.A. Blowouts
The Center for Autonomous Social Action-General Brotherhood of Workers (or CASA-HGT as known by its Spanish Acronym) was cofounded by veteran activists and labor organizers Soledad “Chole” Alatorre and ___________________ in 1968.
Bert Corona
What was the name of the organization that based in Denver, CO that was guided by Corky Gonzales?
Crusade for Justice
What term does Stanford Sociologist Tomas Jimenez use for describing a leisurely ethnic connection that does not shape how people are seen or how a person sees the world?
a. Symbolic Ethnic Identity b. Cultural Replenishment
c. Code-Switching d. Cultural Appropriation
a. Symbolic Ethnic Identity
This major port city, which was under Spanish control from 1763-1800, continued serving an important role in Mexican history as a point of entry into the U.S. What’s the name of the city?
a. San Francisco, CA b. New Orleans, LA
c. Miami, FL c. Mobile, AL
b. New Orleans, LA
According to Rudy Acuna, 300 years of Spanish Colonialism is one of two phenomena connected to becoming Mexican. What is the other?
a. Catholicism b. Spanish language
c. Creation of a 2,000-mile Border d. Mestizaje
c. Creation of a 2,000-mile Border
_______________________ was a prominent folklorist, historian, writer, and teacher who collected Mexican folklore in the Rio Grande Valley.
Jovita Gonzalez de Mireles
The National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) which was spearheaded by Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and Gilberto Padilla, among others, originated in what year?
1962