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chicano

chi ko noh

  • n  a person of Mexican descent

  • But, even with some 19% of chicano families below the poverty line, Martinez concedes that a middle class is "clearly emerging.
  • Blacks and a chicano are blockbusters in white rock 'n 'roll The trouble started, intones the singer, when he noticed "Too many faces that are Not just like.
  • Five miles down the road from Memorial, Chicano Activist Herman Baca is fulminating against the Cash for Class project: "Paying 250 to chicano children," says he, "is an insult to .
News & Articles

  • Artists' feelings mixed about Newport's missing art
    Artist Jose Lozano often tells vibrant stories of Chicano life in his paintings, but the fate of one of those paintings tells a different kind of tale - one of confusion and loss.
    June 12, 2013 - Orange County Register
  • Keck's Exclusives First Look: Eva Longoria Meets The Simpsons
    Keck's Exclusives First Look: Eva Longoria Meets The Simpsons Seattle Post-Intelligencer Copyright 2013 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 4:04 am, Monday, June 10, 2013 In between shooting movies, producing TV shows, owning a restaurant, earning a master's degree in Chicano studies and promoting ...
    June 12, 2013 - seattlepi.com
  • Artists' feelings mixed about Newport's missing art
    Artist Jose Lozano often tells vibrant stories of Chicano life in his paintings, but the fate of one of those paintings tells a different kind of tale - one of confusion and loss.
    June 12, 2013 - Orange County Register
Quotes

  • Cheech Marin in Broward New Times
    When you view the art and understand the many interpretations, whether social or political and even religious,Cheech says, "you see a 360-degree view of the Chicano experience."
  • George Lopez in CNNMoney.com (press release)
    George Lopez adds another notch to his belt with his new COMEDY CENTRAL Records CD, "Tall, Dark & Chicano" released on Tuesday, December 15.
  • Ruben Salazar in Fort Worth Star Telegram
    , Salazar wrote, "A Chicano is a Mexican-American with a non-Anglo image of himself. He resents being told Columbus 'discovered' America when the Chicano's ancestors, the Mayans and Aztecs, founded highly sophisticated civilizations centuries before...

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