Latin American, Race & Ethnicity
Which two groups are left out of Latine/ Latinx communities?
Indigenous and Black communities
What term was created to group people in the U.S. who are native to or descends from, a Spanish-speaking country.
Hispanic
When did the Chicano term became a chosen identity of some Mexican Americans in the United States.
the Chicano Movement / Civil Rights Movement
Why is Latino spelled Latine/ Latinx?
Gender neutral
What term used mostly by the older generation.
Hispanic
Which country in Latin America has the highest percentage of Black people?
Brazil
In the early 1970s which presidency, in the U.S. needed to group people who spoke Spanish into the U.S. Census?
Nixon
What university was the first university in Washington to start a MEChA Chapter
Who uses Latine/ Latinx currently?
Academics and progressive folks
•Before the 1960s, the which term was a derogatory term to describe Mexican-American people in the U.S.
Chicano
Which country in Latin America has the highest percentage of indigenous people?
Bolivia
Current day, Hispanic is mostly used where in the US
East Coast, Texas, and New Mexico.
•What is the literal translation of the La Raza and what does the term actually refer to?
(the literal translation means “the race”, but it refers to “the people”) emerged to encompass all those who were involved during the Civil Rights Movement, especially the Chicano Movement.
What community created the term and why?
the queer community as a gender-neutral and inclusive term to refer to people from Latin America.
What is one thing that Sydeney Gallegos said about the Chicano identity that is important?
•A Pew Research Center survey of Latino adults shows that "_____" of all U.S. Latinos self-identify as Afro-Latino, Afro-Caribbean or of African descent with roots in Latin America”
one-quarter
Why was the Latino term was pushed in the 1980s by activists to replace Hispanic?
deemphasized the connection to Spain and the colonization of Latin America.
Name the four core areas the Chicano Movement was active in.
the farmworkers union (UFW), Land Grants, La Raza Unida Party, and the Student Movement (MECha).
Why does the “x” replace the “o” and “a” in Latino/a
part of Spanish grammar conventions for binary genders
What is one thing you learned that you will take away from here?
Freebie
Give two reasons why Latine/ Latinx identities are emotionally charged identitites.
1. Systematic trauma
2. Shame
3. Discriminated identities - indigenous & Black
4. Systematic barriers
5. Colonization
“A Latin-American inhabitant of the United States.”
Name the one the founder of MEChA de UW who occupied SeaMar and is now the CEO of SeaMar
Rogelio Rojas
What is Oxfords definition of Latine/ Latinx?
Definition – “A person of Latin American origin or descent. Cf. Latinx n.”
“Used to refer to a person or group without specifying a gender. Cf. Latina n., Latino n.”
“A person of Mexican origin or descent living in the United States (particularly in those areas annexed from Mexico in 1848); esp. one who is proud of… Although in early use frequently derogatory (and still sometimes considered offensive), from the late 1960s Chicano began to be used as a neutral or positive term, and was used as a self-designation by people of Mexican origin involved in the U.S. civil rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s; see Chicano movement, n.”