Key terms in Latino/a cultural and literary studies

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Overview of Key Terms

ABC Generation, Generation N

Active-Passive Matrix

Adelita, Soldadera

Afro-Latino, Indo-Latino

AIDS/HIV

Ajiaco, Ajiaco Christianity

Aiamo

Altars, Ofrendas

Alter-Native

Ambiente

America,America

Americanization

Anglo-American, European American

Assimilation, Acculturation

Aztecs

Aztlan

Bachata

Ballet folklorico

Balseros

Banda

Barrio, Barriology, Barrioization, Barrio Logos

Baseball

Basketball

Bato/a, Vato/a, Batos locos

Bilingualism, Bilingual Education

Black Legend, Leyenda negra

Black/White Paradigm

Blowouts, Walkouts

Bolero

Borderlands, Borderlands/La Frontera

Borderotics/Fronterotica

Border Patrol, Migra

Border Theory

Border Zones

Boricua, Borinquen

Boxing

Bracero, Bracero Program

Brown, Brownness, Brown Pride, Brown Out

Brown Berets

Calo

Cannibal, Canibal, Caliban

Canon

Carnalismo r

Casita Movement

Catholicism, Protestantism

Census

Cha-Cha-Cha

Charco, Brincando el charco

Chicanismo

Chicano/a, Chicana/o, Chican

Chicano Movement, Movimiento chicano

Chicano Renaissance

Cholo/a

Choteo

Chusmeria

Citizenship, Cultural Citizenship

Class

Coatlicue State

Cockfighting

Code Switching

Colonialism, Neocolonialism, Postcolonialism

Comadrismo, Compadrazgo

Comics

Conjunto

Corrido, Narcocorrido

Coyote

Creole, Criollo, Creolization

Critical Race Theory, LatCrit Theory

Cuban American

Cuban Revolution

Cultural Imperialism

Cultural Politics

Culture of Poverty Thesis

Cumbia

Danza, Danzon

Decolonization, Decolonial Imaginary

Dia de los muertos, Day of the Dead

Diaspora

Dichos

Disidentification

Domestic, Domestica, Domesticana

Dominicano

Duranguense

English-Only Movement

Estado Libre Asociado

Ethnicity, Panethnicity

Ethnopoetics, Mythopoetics

Exile

Folklore, Folk Culture

Football, Futbol, Soccer

Frontier

Gachupin

Gangs, Maras

Globalization

Graffiti

Gran familia

Greaser

Greater Cuba

Greater Mexico

Great Migration

Green Card

Guagua aerea

Guajiro/a

Hispanic

Hispanidad, Hispanism, Hispanismo

Hispano

Homeboys, Homegirls, Homies

Hometown Associations

Hybrid, Hybridity, Hybridization

Hyphen, Hyphenation

Identity, Identification

Illegal Alien, Legal Alien

Imperialism, Empire

Insularismo

Internal Colonialism or Colonization

Jibaro/a, Gibaro/a

Jones Act

Joto/a

Kitsch

Latin America, Latin/o America

Latinidad, Latinismo

Latinization

Latin Jazz

Latino, Latino/a, Latina/o, Latin@

Literatura chicanesca, Chicanesque Literature

Llorona

Loco/a

Low Rider, Low Riding, Onda bajita

Lucha libre

Machismo

Magical Realism

Malinche, Malinchismo

Mambo

Manifest Destiny

Marginality, Marginalization

Mariachi

Marianismo

Mariel Boatlift, Marielitos

Matricula

Mean Streets

Melting Pot

Merengue

Mestizo/a, Mestizaje

Mexican American

Mexican-American War

Mexican Revolution

Mexico de afuera, Mexico del norte, Mexico lindo, Otro Mexico

Migration

Minority

Mojado/a, Wetback

Monroe Doctrine

Mulato/a, Mulatez

Multiculturalism

Murals

Naco

NAFTA

Nahuatl

Nation, State, Nationalism

Nativism

Nepantla

Norte

Nortec

Norteno

Nueva mestiza, Mestiza Consciousness

Nuyorican, Nuyorico

Nuyorican Aesthetics, Cultural Consciousness, Dialectic

One-and-a-Halfers, 1.5 Generation

Operation Bootstrap

Operation Pedro Pan

Operation Wetback

Oppositional Consciousness

P'aca y p'alla Dialectics

Pachuco/a

Pan-Americanism

Pinto, Pinto Art

Pioneros

Plan de Santa Barbara

Plan espiritual de Aztlan

Plena, Bomba

Pocho/a, Pochismo

Premio Lo Nuestro

Prisons, Prison Industrial Complex

Puerto Rican, Puertorriqueno/a

Quinceanera

Quinto sol, Quinto Sol Generation

Quisqueya

Race, Racialization

Ranchera

Rap and Hip-Hop

Rasquachismo

Raza, Raza cosmica

Reggaeton

Remittances

Retablos

Rock en espanol

Rumba

Salsa

Santeria

Santos, Santeros

Sitios y lenguas

Situational Alliances

Slavery

Sleepy Lagoon

Son

Spanglish

Spanish-American War

Spic

Stereotype

Subaltern, Subalternity, Subaltern Studies

Syncretism

Taino

Teatro Campesino

Trejano/a, Tejano Music, Tex-Mex

Telenovela

Testimonio, Testimonial

Texas Rangers, Rinches

Third World Feminism, Women of Color Movement

Tortillera

Transculturation

Transnationality, Translocalism, Transmigration

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Tropicalizations

Undocumented Worker

United Farm Workers

Vaiven

Vaquero, Cowboy, Charro, Charreada

Virgen de Guadalupe, de la Altagracia, de la Caridad del Cobre, de la Providencia

Voguing, Ballroom Scene

West, Western

Young Lords

Zoot Suiters, Zoot Suit Riots

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