Context of Terms
Belonging or relating to Hispania, this term is used mostly by the older generation.
What is Hispanic?
The Chicano Movement was huge in this state.
What is Washington?
Communities are often erased or left out of the discussion.
Who are Black and Indigenous Communities?
The movement that included the farmworkers union (UFW), Land Grants, La Raza Unida Party, and the Student Movement.
What is the Chicano/Chicana Movement?
Meaning "The Race"/ Referring to "The People".
What is La Raza?
Terms created by queer community, referring to people from Latin America.
What is Latin@/Latinx/Latine?
One of the founders of MEChA.
Who is Sydeney Gallegos?
Country that has the highest percentage that identify as Black people.
What is Brazil?
The US Census added this language in the 1970s.
What is Spanish?
A person of Latin-American descent or origin of the United States.
What is Latino/Latina?
The term Hispanic was forced upon communities/ identities, but excluded these specific people.
Who are Brazilian people?
Led the Mexican-American War.
Who is Reies Tijerina?
2010 research showed this total of Indigenous people in Latin America.
What is 45 million.
In the 1980s the term was pushed by activists to deemphasize the connection to Spain.
What is Latino/Latina?
A term dividing humans according to their physical differences, i.e. color of their skin.
What is Race?
In the 1980's, this term was pushed to replace Hispanic, deemphasizing the connection to Spain.
What is Latino/ Latina?
MeChA members from the 60's are now the CEO of SeaMar and professors of this college.
What is University of Washington?
This country has the highest percentage of indigenous people.
What is Bolivia?
The Black Student Union at UW, advocated for more people of color, resulting in the first Mexican- American students arriving this decade.
What is the 1960's.
In the 60's, this term began to be used as self designation by people of Mexican origin, involved in the civil rights movement.
What is Chicano/ Chicana?
This word is derived from the Nahuatl word "Meshicano".
What is Chicano/Chicana?
The grape boycott originally began with Filipino Farm workers, with these two joining the fight soon after.
Who are Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta? Who are Cesar and Dolores?
This fraction of all U.S. Latinos self-identify as Afro-Latino, Afro-Caribbean, or of African descent.
What is one-quarter?
This building in South Park, was occupied in demand for cultural healthcare services, it now stands as this.
What is SeaMar Headquarters.
This word describes belonging to a population or subgroup of people sharing a common cultural background.
What is Ethnicity?