• The Cantaloupe strike of 1928 was labor movement of cantaloupe pickers in Imperial Valley, California. On May 7, 1928 cantaloupe pickers walked off of the...
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    of Los Angeles, Cantaloupe strike of 1928, California agricultural strikes (1931–1941), and the Ventura County agricultural strike of 1941, endured mass...
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    Operation Wetback (category History of immigration to the United States)
    immigration law enforcement initiative created by Joseph Swing, the Director of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). The program...
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    A cholo or chola is a member of a Chicano and Latino subculture or lifestyle associated with a particular set of dress, behavior, and worldview which...
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    AWOC in Delano, California, initiated a grape strike, and the NFWA went on strike in support. As a result of the commonality in goals and methods, the NFWA...
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    Structured as a series of vignettes, it tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, a 12-year-old Chicana girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago. Based...
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    a 14-day hunger strike which garnered support from several California state leaders and ultimately resulted in the establishment of The César Chávez...
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    Aztlán (redirect from Flag of Aztlán)
    westernized Aztlán, Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈast͡ɬãːn̥] ) is the ancestral home of the Aztec peoples. The word Aztecah is the Nahuatl word for "people from Aztlán"...
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    Bracero Program (category Labor history of the United States)
    character and scope: the Japanese-Mexican strike of 1943 in Dayton, Washington and the June 1946 strike of 1000 plus braceros that refused to harvest...
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    Zoot Suit Riots (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of August 2024)
    The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots that took place June 3–8, 1943, in Los Angeles, California, United States, involving American servicemen stationed...
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    Lowrider also refers to the driver of the car and their participation in lowrider car clubs, which remain a part of Chicano culture and have since expanded...
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    aspect of Mexican-American literature that emerged from the cultural consciousness developed in the Chicano Movement. Chicano literature formed out of the...
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    Bless Me, Ultima is a coming-of-age novel by Rudolfo Anaya centering on Antonio Márez y Luna and his mentorship under his curandera and protector, Ultima...
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    Pachuco (category Culture of Mexico)
    Pachucos are male members of a counterculture that emerged in El Paso, Texas, in the late 1930s. Pachucos are associated with zoot suit fashion, jump blues...
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    Sleepy Lagoon murder (category History of Los Angeles County, California)
    murder" was the name that Los Angeles newspapers used to describe the death of José Gallardo Díaz, who was discovered unconscious and dying near a reservoir...
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    in the changing economies of these areas. The Delano grape strike was influenced by the Filipino-American farm worker strike in Coachella Valley, May 1965...
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    'Spanish-American': Race and Rhetoric in New Mexico Politics, 1880-1928," Journal of American Ethnic History, Summer 2001, Vol. 20 Issue 4, p59-84 Lucero...
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    Chicano Movement (category History of civil rights in the United States)
    of communication to spread the word of political events affecting Chicano culture; UFW strikes, student walkouts, and anti-war rallies were a few of the...
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    La Raza (category Culture of Latin America)
    Empire, and the process of racial intermixing during the Spanish colonization of the Americas with the indigenous populations of the Americas. The term...
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    variation of regional Mexican music known as norteño). It reached a much larger audience in the late 20th century thanks to the explosive popularity of Mazz...
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    Mexican Repatriation (category History of immigration to the United States)
    labor protests or farm strikes and labeling protesters and protest leaders as possible subversives, communists, or radicals. "Strike leaders and picketers...
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    The 1913 El Paso smelters' strike was a labor strike involving workers of the American Smelting and Refining Company's copper smelting plant in El Paso...
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    Brown Berets (category History of Latino civil rights)
    passage of California Proposition 187 in 1994. In 1966, a group of high school students discussed issues affecting Mexican Americans as part of the Annual...
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  • Bloody Christmas (1951) (category History of Los Angeles)
    Bloody Christmas was the severe beating of seven civilians by members of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) on December 25, 1951. The attacks left...
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    organization in Orange County and elsewhere. Cantaloupe strike of 1928 California agricultural strikes of 1933 "UCI Libraries - Immigrant Lives in the...
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    The Punjabi Mexican American community, the majority of which is localized to Yuba City, California, is a distinctive ethnicity holding its roots in a...
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    Chicano rock (category Music of California)
    Some of these groups do not sing in Spanish at all, or use many specific Latin instruments or sounds. The subgenre is defined by the ethnicity of its performers...
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    of issues such as gender, identity, race, and colonialism. Borderlands is considered to be Anzaldúa’s most well-known work and a pioneering piece of Chicana...
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    Raza Unida Party (category Political parties with year of disestablishment missing)
    explained "All of us were the products of the traditional Mexican American organizations … All of us were very frustrated at the lack of political efficacy...
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    Bisbee Deportation (category 1917 labor disputes and strikes)
    deported by mistake, because of lack of due process. Anti-union violence 1927–1928 Colorado Coal Strike Company town Freedom of movement under United States...
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