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Week 10 — Chicana/o and Latina/o Experiences II: Movements and Many Communities

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Why this matters

A nursing student writing a clinic's bilingual signs and an education major teaching families from many countries both need to name people as they name themselves.

In plain language

This chapter follows the people of Mexican and Latin American descent in the United States through the movements of the 1960s and the many communities that came after. Students walked out of their high schools, farmworkers struck the grape fields, and the Chicano movement (the Mexican American civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s) gave people a new name for themselves. You will also meet Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Central American experiences, which reached the United States by very different roads. Then you will sort the group terms, Hispanic (origin in Spanish-speaking countries) and Latino (origin in Latin America), and learn who uses which. You will finish able to read one student's account beside the dated record and say, in one plain sentence, what each one shows.

  • Already covered: Week 9's treaty, braceros, and school cases.
  • This week: the Chicano movement, Delano, the walkouts, many communities, the terms.
  • How they connect: this week shows how many communities organized and named themselves.
  • Where we're going next: Week 11, Asian American and Pacific Islander Experiences I.

Focus

How did many communities organize, and who uses which group term?

By the end of this module, you should be able to:

  • [ ] say who began the Delano grape strike and who joined it
  • [ ] read the E6 excerpt against the walkouts of 1968
  • [ ] compare Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Central American histories
  • [ ] explain Hispanic or Latino on federal forms and who uses which term

To-do

Plan your week

  1. Read Chapter 10 (about 30–40 minutes), then the lecture and slides.
  2. Work the lecture tutorial (60–90 minutes).
  3. Try the practice set (15–25 minutes).
  4. Do the workshop (about 90 minutes), the discussion, and the assignment, then the quiz.

This week's checkpoint: explain why Hispanic and Latino are not identical in every use.

You've got this

Take it in order, and ask your instructor if a step snags.

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