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¡Ya Basta! 14 The term Hispanic, coined by technomarketing experts and by the designers of political campaigns, homogenizes our ...

Figure 14.1 Latino population by country of origin Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2007 Community Survey ...

The government uses “Hispanic” as an umbrella term for everyone who is of Spanish-speaking national or ethnic origins. Figure 14 ...

Figure 14.2 Latino/acommunities over space Source:Adapted from 2009 U.S. Census Bureau ...

Figure 14.3 (a) Language other than English spoken at home; (b) Percent of the population speaking a language other than English ...

On the West Coast, Spanish-speaking (largely Mestizo) communities were well established when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was ...

not identify themselves in the first line as Americans. According to Rubén Salazar, “A Chicano is a Mexican-American with a non- ...

they do not self-identify as “American.” Undergoing a process of “racialized assimilation,” Latinos are not viewed by other U.S. ...

Figure 14.5 How individuals self-identify national origin, by language preference and use in answer to the question “In general, ...

accent, film makers find it difficult to imagine Latinos/as as accountants, copy shop owners, engineers or veterinarians. The Sp ...

its people a distinct name is to refuse to acknowledge them. There is a shorthand at work here, and that is, there is only one a ...

night – Gorazde, San Cristobal. They don’t sound so foreign here as they might in the Dakotas. So, why are we frustrated at the ...

Finally, we come to the heart of the matter. Certain accents are frustrating and disturbing and worthy of reduction (he has alre ...

Mestizo” (Baker 2009). Baker makes this point in support of the drive to add Mestizo to the choices for race offered by the Cens ...

We’re not Going Anywhere: Performing Race In teaching an annual course on language and discrimination, I found that arguments ra ...

United States, among other things. At that, some or all of the Anglo students felt the need to reassert their own identities, pr ...

The answer to that question gets to the heart of the matter: as an English speaker, the student who complained about being exclu ...

groundbreaking work on the island of Martha’s Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts. Using quantitative methods and statistica ...

Another example from a study conducted in Texas by Achugar and Pessoa indicates that this mindset is not exclusive to California ...

of the number of clients with Spanish surnames. He wanted to determine how many undocumented immigrants were using city services ...