THE ORIGIN OF THE "CHICANO" NAME

CHICANO

The name/term "Chicano" has now been appropriated by many Mexican-Americans as unique and therefore reflective of their unique culture, though its first usage is said to have been discriminatory, and it was insulting to be identified by this name. The Mexican-American activists who took part in the Brown Power movement of the 60s & 70s "appropriated" the term as a badge of pride and honor, and has now come into acceptance and widespread usage by millions of Mexican-Americans.

One of the likely source of the word is traced to the “30s and 40sâ€

Fantastic article! :Clap: QUE VIVA LA RAZA!

Cool, Good article. you have a link to the source by any chance?

Interesting, Chocala is a new one for me.

Concerning the article, the source is your's truly, I wrote it. Of course I knew some of it from pass downs, and other stuff I gathered from reading here or there, tu sabes.

In regards to "chocala," ~> I have put together a CALO A to Z vocabulario, but I have it all on notes and line paper, so now I need to type it all up and post it up.

Nope, cholo and chola derive from the apodage which Spaniards and others placed on the Natives. Cholo at one time implied ~> "Indio Borracho" (drunken Indian).

Ah alright good stuff. A lot of the calo slang was used in the south Tejas where half my familia is from and a lot of the words I recognise.

Thank you for sharring your articles with us.

Sagitario wrote:Concerning the article, the source is your's truly, I wrote it. Of course I knew some of it from pass downs, and other stuff I gathered from reading here or there, tu sabes.

In regards to "chocala," ~> I have put together a CALO A to Z vocabulario, but I have it all on notes and line paper, so now I need to type it all up and post it up.

humm interesting

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real interseting