For some Mexicans who shunned Latino and Hispanic, this meant turning to the word “Chicano.” There are a few theories about the origins of Chicano, including that it comes frommexicano (pronouncedmeshicano), a word that some “groups of Nahuas (Indigenous speakers of Nahuatl) began calling...
Regardless of their background and genre, these writers are helping to expand our understanding of who we are as a diverse country and demonstrate that the literary contributions of Hispanic/Chicano/Latinx writers have grown exponentially over the past few decades. This is by no means an exhaustiv...
First, a note aboutLatinoandHispanic Our discussion ofLatineandLatinxmust begin by addressing the term they’re derived from—Latino—and how it differs fromHispanic. The wordHispaniccarries with it the specification of a person’s language, referring to people from or with a heritage rooted in ...
Census, it was determined that a person was of “Spanish/Hispanic origin” if the person’s origin (ancestry) is Mexican, Mexican American, Chicano, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Ecuadorian, Guatemalan, Hondonian, Nicaraguan, Peruvian, Salvadorian, from other Spanish-speaking countries of the Caribbean...
Census, it was determined that a person was of “Spanish/Hispanic origin” if the person’s origin (ancestry) is Mexican, Mexican American, Chicano, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Ecuadorian, Guatemalan, Hondonian, Nicaraguan, Peruvian, Salvadorian, from other Spanish-speaking countries of the Caribbean...