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Chi·ca·no

 (chĭ-kä′nō, shĭ-)
n. pl. Chi·ca·nos
A Mexican American.
[American Spanish chicano, dialectal variant of mexicano, Mexican, from México, Mexico.]
Chi·ca′no adj.
Usage Note: Chicano is used only of Mexican Americans, not of Mexicans living in Mexico or working as migrants in the United States. While Chicano is a term of pride for many Mexican Americans, it remains a word with strong political associations stemming from the Chicano literary and civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Since these politics are not necessarily espoused by all Mexican Americans, and since usage and acceptance of this word can vary from one region to another, an outsider who is unfamiliar with his or her audience would do well to use Mexican American instead. See Usage Note at Hispanic.
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chicano

(tʃɪˈkɑːnəʊ)
n, pl -nos
(Peoples) an American citizen of Mexican origin
[C20: from Spanish mejicano Mexican]
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Chi•ca•no

(tʃɪˈkɑ noʊ, -ˈkæn oʊ)

n., pl. -nos.
a Mexican-American, esp. a male.
[1960–65; < Mexican Spanish mexicano Mexican]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.Chicano - a person of Mexican descent
Mexican - a native or inhabitant of Mexico
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Translations

Chicano

[tʃɪˈkɑːnəʊ]
A. ADJ → chicano
B. N → chicano/a m/f
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Chicano

n (= Mexican American) pl <Chicanos> → Chicano m
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These people look at us los Chicanos like we're one of them.
The Road to Healing: Pilgrimage and the Vietnam War in Let Their Spirits Dance
Tension between people men and women, Chicanos and Anglos is a frequent theme in de Hoyo's work.
Selected Poems of Angela de Hoyos
The diverse anthology should appeal to high school and college students as well as those interested in the written experience of the Chicanos in the United States.
Mexican American Literature: A Portable Anthology
The possibilities of such a challenging emergent cinema are suggested in the next chapter, "Red Sky at Morning, a Borderlands Interlude," where Melendez shows the attempt to film a project in the Southwest Borderlands about how Anglos and Chicanos viewed one another as neighbors.
A. Gabriel Melendez. 2013. Hidden Chicano Cinema. Film Dramas in the Borderlands
Cultural studies, on the other hand, have transferred this ethnic-spatial concern towards a creative environment, setting the city as a counter-discourse space; this is the main argument of Barrio-Logos: Space and Place in Urban Chicano Literature and Culture (2000), which examines Chicano artistic creation of urban spaces in response to "mechanisms which literally place Chicanos in a material and symbolic geography of dominance drawn by the visible hand of urbanizing, mostly Anglo-controlled capital" (4).
Magical realism and the function of space in contemporary Chicano cinema: Bedhead and spy kids
Herrera reflects on his readings of Octavio Paz's The Labyrinth of Solitude, a book that reminds us that a country is not represented by a racial community or a culturally homogenous people but by the coexistence of mutually enriching cultures and different peoples who oftentimes carry the "other" in their innermost selves, as is the case of Chicanos with names such as Spencer and Levi and a photographer who has the "face of a gringo [...] but the heart of a Chicano."
Spencer R. Herrera. Sagrado: A Photopoetics Across the Chicano Homeland
Consider, for example, that on many college campuses the student group MEChA (Moviemiento Estudiantil Chicanos de Atzlan) is considered a "Recognized Student Organizations." There are presidents of universities, faculty, staff, program directors, principals, teachers, and school staff who are Xicana/o within educational institutions (as but one example of institutional incorporation).
From Chicano/a to Xicana/o: critical activist teaching revisited
Chicanos in Denver were attempting to buck the trend.
Forgotten alliance: Jews, Chicanos, and the dynamics of class and race in Denver, Colorado, 1967-1971

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