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Chicano, chicano, n. and a.|tʃɪˈkɑːnəʊ, ʃɪ-, -ˈkeɪnəʊ|
Pl. Chicanos.
[a. Mexican Sp. alteration of Sp. mejicano Mexican.]
A. n. A person of Mexican birth or descent resident in the U.S. (particularly in those areas annexed in 1848), esp. one who is proud of his Mexican origins and concerned to improve the position of Mexicans in the U.S.; a Mexican-American.
1947Arizona Q. Summer 12 From the center of downtown Tucson the ground slopes..to the banks of the Santa Cruz river. Here lies the sprawling section of the city known as El Hoyo... Its inhabitants are chicanos who raise hell on Saturday night. 1969Times 4 July 17/1 No man..personifies the Chicanos' bleak past, restless present and possible future in quite the manner of Cesar Chavez. 1970Koenig & Dixon Children are Watching (1971) 124 There are quite a few people with Spanish surnames around here... Lots of Chicanos working here in the Colony. 1972Newsweek 19 June 23/3 Taking the black vote for the first time in any primary and the chicanos as well. 1981Willoughby (Ohio) News-Herald 12 May, In California and Texas, Mexican-American and Chicano are most widely used. But as you travel farther south in both states,..Mexicano is more common. In New Mexico..many Latinos{ddd}refer to themselves as Spanish-Americans or Hispanos. 1984Listener 7 June 5/2 Sunday night is ‘cruise’ night on Whittier Boulevard for thousands of the city's young chicanos.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Mexican-Americans or to the varieties of English and Spanish spoken by them.
1967Trans-Action Apr. 6/1 This field worker, Cowboy, was a white dude of 25. He had run with ‘Paddy’ (white), ‘Chicano’ (Mexican), and ‘Blood’ (Negro) sets since the age of 12 and was highly respected for having been president of a tough gang. 1971Times 8 Jan. 10/7 He mixes easily and has become an expert researcher, devising and assessing questionnaires and programmes to probe the chicano..community. 1978Language LIV. 54 In a more interesting group of Chicano dialects, described in Reyes, the diphthongization alternation has been lost across the board within a peculiarly characterizable set of forms. 1982English World-Wide iii. 233 The third day attempted to synthesize issues regarding Chicano English.
▸ Chicano movement n. U.S. (now chiefly hist.) a movement seeking political, social, and cultural recognition for Chicanos.
The movement rose to prominence in the late 1960s and 1970s in association with the broader civil rights movement in the United States at that time.
1969Los Angeles Times 24 Jan. iv. 6/4 Education is also the prime goal of the *chicano movement. We need teachers, lawyers and doctors to go back into the barrios. 2003A. Valdes-Rodriguez Dirty Girls Social Club 10 She's still always up in my face with all that dated, 1970s Chicano movement, ‘brown and proud’, West Coast Que viva la raza jive. |