CCS 141A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: League Of United Latin American Citizens, Critical Thinking, Mulatto
17 Jan 2018
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Terms used to label people from latin america are used interchangeably. Ask the individual how they choose to identify. Context: history of race relations in the u. s. A term that was chosen by the community to express pride and power in the. Associated with poverty (1900s - 1930s) mexican migrants occupied many of the jobs that were low wage, dirty, dangerous, hard, undesirable, etc, in the industrialized sector; particularly, the mining, railroad and agricultural industries. This label became very popular during the 1940s, it was a way to distant themselves from earlier mexican migrants. Civil rights organization, and veterans organization to receive equal rights. Under the nixon administration, his cabinet formed a community to determine what label the government would use to describe this group of people in the. They decided that all people from spanish-speaking countries would be called hispanics. (ex: spain, mexico) Root of the word comes from hispano which comes from espanol .
