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🌵Intro to Chicanx and Latinx Studies
Key Terms

239 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to Chicanx and Latinx Studies exam

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A

Acculturation
Acequia irrigation
Afro-Latinidad
Afro-Latinx
Afro-Latinx identities
Afro-Latinx Solidarity
Agri-food policies
American G.I. Forum
Anglo-American dominance
Anti-blackness
Anti-immigrant rhetoric
Anti-immigrant sentiment
Anti-imperialism
Anti-imperialist struggles
Antonio López de Santa Anna
Aztec and Maya Iconography
Aztec Symbolism

B

Bare Life
Bicultural identity
Bilingual education
Bilingual Education Act
Black and brown LGBTQ+ unity
Black-brown unity
Bless Me, Ultima
Border brujo
Border patrol
Border studies
Border Thinking
Brown Berets
Brown Pride

C

California's Central Valley
Caló
Carlos Almaraz
Central America
Central American migration
Central American Solidarity Movement
Cherríe moraga
Chicano History
Chicano Identity
Chicano Manifesto
Chicano Moratorium
Chicano Renaissance
Chicanx Identity
Circular Migration
Civic engagement
Civil rights era
Class stratification
Climate justice
Coco Fusco
Coloniality of Power
Community displacement
Community health worker programs
Community Organizing
Community schools
Community-based participatory research
Community-based research
Counterstorytelling
Criminal justice reform
Criminalization of immigration violations
Critical consciousness
Crusade for Justice
Cultural centers
Cultural Citizenship
Cultural preservation
Cultural representation
Cultural retention
Cultural studies
Culturally relevant pedagogy
Curanderismo

D

Danza azteca
David Alfaro Siqueiros
Decolonial feminism
Decolonial methodologies
Decolonial Praxis
Decolonial Theory