Immigration
being a free white person" who had been living in the United States for two years.
This area brought new life and offered mutual aid to recent immigrants.
What are barrios?
This culture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, sometimes diametrically opposed to mainstream cultural norms.
What is counterculture?
This organization combatted against police brutality, racism, and demanded educational, job, and housing opportunities.
Who were the Brown Berets?
In order to stop the spread of Communism in Latin America the US government did the following.
What was meddling in elections, and backing military coups?
This is the oldest Latino civil rights organization founded in 1929.
What was the League of United Latin American Citizens=LULAC
Describe Puerto Rican citizenship/voting status.
U.S. citizens, travel freely, Voting rights in federal government is significantly limited;
A group of people within a culture that differentiates itself from the main culture to which it belongs
What is subculture?
This political saw minor success in local election, but ultimately failed on the national scale.
What was the Raza Unida Party?
This international incident not only made President Regan look bad, but broke numerous international laws.
What was the Iran-Contra Affair?
This policy saw the banning of a group of people.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
This foreign policy saw massive monetary and industrial investment into Puerto Rico.
What was Operation Bootstrap?
Describe California's quality of education for Chicano students.
Mexican-American students experienced a 60% dropout rate from high school, 8th grade reading level, vocational schools, no speaking Spanish.
The Chicano movement had these three goals.
What were rights for farm workers, restoration of land, and education reform?
These are numerous tactics and policies intended to deter immigration to the United States.
What is the Immigration reform and control Act, California Proposition 187, and workplace raids?
This immigration policy enacted under president Trump caused backlash.
What was the separation of children from their families?
laws and practices akin to Jim Crow systems of discrimination and disempowerment that African Americans were subjected to throughout the South.
What was Juan Crow?
List some examples of what rights Chicanos demonstrated for.
affirmative action, globalization, wars, and immigration.
This movement began in the Southwest throughout various barrios
What was the Chicano Mural Movement?
This process saw indigenous land get taken away and forced enslaved Africans to migrate and work these lands.
What was colonization?
This procedure makes women and men unable to have children.
What is sterilization?
This was a massive wave of deportations that took place predominately during the Great Depression.
What was Mexican Repatriation?
Chicano murals originated in this indigenous tradition.
What was recording their rituals and history on the walls of their pyramids?
This form of demonstration led by Sal Castro faced retaliation from police and school board.
What were walkouts?
The Nahuatl term for Meshico evolved into this native term.
What is Chicano?