Categories: Chicano | Mexican Culture | Latino Culture | Chicano Culture | Culture stubs Image File history File links Representación pictórica de la Piedra del Sol Representação pictórica da Pedra do Sol File links The following pages link to this file: Aztec calendar Wikipedia:Commons ... A Chicano or Chicana is a term used to indicate an identity held by some persons of Mexican descent living in the United States. ... // Meaning La Raza means literally in Spanish the race. ... The word Latino derives from the Spanish word Latinoamericano and is generally applied to inhabitants of Latin America and their descendents living outside of Latin America. ... The ethnonym Mexican American is the usual term of self description for people with strong ties to both the United States of America and Mexico. ... The Hispanic world Hispanic (Spanish: Hispano) is a term denoting a derivation from Spain, her people and culture. ... for situation in 2006 see Mexican American The history of Mexican-Americans is wide-ranging, spanning more than four hundred years and varying from region to region within the United States. ... Combatants United States Mexico Commanders Zachary Taylor Winfield Scott Stephen W. Kearney Antonio López de Santa Anna Mariano Arista Pedro de Ampudia Strength 60,000 40,000 Casualties KIA: 1,733 Total dead: 13,283 Wounded: 4,152 25,000 (Mexican government estimate) The Mexican-American War was fought... The birthday party for Eleanor Coronado, held at her parents rural Los Angeles County home, was winding to a close in the early hours of Sunday, August 2, 1942, as a large group of young people from 38th Street pulled up. ... The Mexican Cession (red) and the Gadsden Purchase (orange) The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was the treaty that ended the Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848. ... The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of riots that erupted in Los Angeles, California during World War II, between sailors and soldiers stationed in the city and Mexican American youth gangs headed by pachucos, recognized because of the zoot suits they favored. ... WikiProject Tasks This article has been identified by the members of WikiProject Mexican-Americans/Chicanos as the subject of a group collaboration, currently underway, with the goal of elevating it to Featured Article status. ... Aztlán (, from Nahuatl Aztlan ) is the legendary ancestral home of the Nahua peoples, one of the main cultural groups in Mesoamerica. ... A Católicos por la Raza demonstration Catolicos Por La Raza is a political association organized by Ricardo Cruz in the later 1960s in Los Angeles, California. ... Chicanismo is a cultural movement by Mexican Americans to recapture their Mexican, Native American culture, which began in the 1930s in the Southwest United States. ... The East Los Angeles Walkouts or Chicano Blowouts were a series of 1968 protests against unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District high schools. ... The Chicano Moratorium, formally known as the National Chicano Moratorium Committee, was a movement of Chicano anti-war activists that built a broad-based but fragile coalition of Mexican-American groups to organize opposition to the Vietnam War. ... El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán (Spiritual Plan of Aztlán) is a manifesto advocating Chicano nationalism and self-determination. ... El Plan de Santa Barbara: A Chicano Plan for Higher Education was written by the Chicano Coordinating Council on Higher Education as a manifesto for the implementation of Chicano Studies educational programs throughout the state of California. ... The United Farm Workers of America (UFW) is a labor union that evolved from unions founded in 1962 by César Chávez, Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong, and Philip Veracruz. ... Alianza Federal de Mercedes, led by Reies Tijerina, was a group based in New Mexico in the 1960s that fought for the land rights of Hispanic New Mexicans, primarily in northern New Mexico. ... Cover of 1978 booklet profiling the goals, corriculum, staff, and campus of Colegio César Chávez. ... Hernandez v. ... Plyler v. ... Chicano Park is a 7. ... Chicano rap is a subgenre of rap music that embodies aspects of West Coast and Southwest Chicano culture and is typically performed by American rappers of Mexican descent. ... Chicano Rock Music is rock music performed by Mexican American groups or music with themes derived from Chicano culture. ... Cholo is a Spanish term of Latin American origin. ... Estrada Courts is a low-income housing project in the Boyle Heights area of East Los Angeles, California, located in the vicinity of 3200 and 3300 Olympic Boulevard, near Lorena Street. ... A lowrider is a car or truck which has had its suspension system modified (usually with hydraulic suspension) so that it rides as low to the ground as possible. ... A pachuco was a Chicano youth in the mid-20th century who wore flashy clothes (such as a Zoot Suit). ... Poster for Teatro Campesino performing at a strike benefit with Quicksilver Messenger Service July 1966 at the Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco. ... Tortilla art refers to fine art that uses tortillas as a canvas. ... For the film, see Zoot Suit. ... . ... This is a list of Chicano writers and poets: Alurista Rudolfo A. Anaya Gloria Anzaldúa Jimmy Santiago Baca Lorna Dee Cervantes Viviana Aparicio Chamberlain Sandra Cisneros Juan A. Contreras Alicia Gaspar de Alba Guillermo Gómez-Peña Rodolfo Corky Gonzales Juan Felipe Herrera Elias Hruska-Cortes Luis A... The following is a partial list of United States cities and towns in which a majority (over 50%) of the population is Hispanic or Latino, according to data from the 2000 Census. ... César Chávez, activist Adela Dalto, singer, song writer and author Rodolfo Corky Gonzales, godfather of the Chicano Civil Rights Movement, 1928-2005 José Ángel Gutierrez Reies Lopez Tijerina Categories: People by race or ethnicity ... Famous Hispanic Americans Christina Aguilera, pop singer Isabel Allende, writer Roberto Alomar, baseball player Julia Alvarez, writer Luis Walter Alvarez, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Rudolfo Anaya, writer Desi Arnaz, actor Judy Baca, artist Joan Baez, folk singer and activist David Barkley, soldier and Medal of Honor recipient Jean-Michel Basquiat...