What is a Chicano person?

While the two terms are sometimes used interchangeably, “Hispanic” is a narrower term that only refers to persons of Spanish-speaking origin or ancestry, while “Latino” is more frequently used to refer generally to anyone of Latin American origin or ancestry, including Brazilians.

The U.S. Census Bureau defines the ethnonym Hispanic or Latino to refer to “a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race” and states that Hispanics or Latinos can be of any race, any ancestry, any ethnicity.

But Brazilians aren’t considered Hispanic because the country’s primary language is Portuguese. Meanwhile, Latinx identity brings together people in South and Central America, who may share a history of Spanish colonization, but that category isn’t defined by having Spanish-speaking ancestry.

Chicano rock is rock music performed by Mexican American (Chicano) groups or music with themes derived from Chicano culture. Chicano Rock, to a great extent, does not refer to any single style or approach. Some of these groups do not sing in Spanish at all, or use many specific Latin instruments or sounds.

Ethnicity Categories. Hispanic or Latino: A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.

One approach defines a Hispanic or Latino as a member of an ethnic group that traces its roots to 20 Spanish-speaking nations from Latin America and Spain itself (but not Portugal or Portuguese-speaking Brazil). The other approach is much simpler.

Latinx (/l?ˈtiːn?ks, læ-/) (plural Latinxs) is a gender neutral term sometimes used in lieu of Latino or Latina (referencing Latin American cultural or racial identity). The -x replaces the standard o/a ending in Spanish and Portuguese forming nouns of the masculine and feminine genders, respectively.

The name of México has several hypotheses that entail the origin, history, and use of the name México, which dates back to 14th century Mesoamerica. The Nahuatl word Mexico means place of the Mexica but the ethnonym Mexicatl itself is of unknown etymology.

Latin America generally refers to territories in the Americas where the Spanish or Portuguese languages prevail: Mexico, most of Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.

Others think “Chicano” is just a variation of the Spanish “mexicano.” Whatever its origins, Mexican Americans have used the word “Chicano” to describe people of Mexican origin living in the United States since the early twentieth century, de León writes.

Chicano or Chicana (also spelled Xicano or Xicana) is a chosen identity of some Mexican Americans in the United States. Both names are chosen identities within the Mexican-American community in the United States; however, these terms have a wide range of meanings in various parts of the Southwest.

The United States Census uses the ethnonym Hispanic or Latino to refer to “a person of Dominican, Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race”.

However, many Chicano researchers believe that the term comes from Mexicano, which is the Spanish word for “Mexican.” The word Mexicano was used in ancient Mexico to identify a member of the Aztec Indian tribe. In modern usage, however, anyone born in Mexico, regardless of ethnic heritage, is a Mexicano.

Chicano / Latino/ Hispanic. “Chicano” means “Mexican-American,” and not all the people denoted by this term like it. When speaking of people living in the US from various other Spanish-speaking countries, “Chicano” is an error for “Latino” or “Hispanic.”

Ancient Spanish peoples

Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula. Iberians. Celtiberians. Gallaeci, Lusitanians, Cantabrians, Vascones.

Greeks and Punics (Phoenicians and Carthaginians)

Guanches (in the Canary Islands)

Romans.

Suebi.

Vandals and Alans.

Visigoths.

Moors of the Al-Andalus (Arabs/Berbers)

Pocho (feminine: pocha) is a term used by Mexicans (frequently pejoratively) to describe Chicanos and those who have left Mexico. Stereotypically, pochos speak English and lack fluency in Spanish.

Mistranslating “La Raza” to mean “the race” implies that it is a term meant to exclude others. In fact, the full term coined by [Mexican scholar José] Vasconcelos, “La Raza Cósmica,” meaning the “cosmic people,” was developed to reflect not purity but the mixture inherent in the Hispanic people.

The Chicano Art Movement represents attempts by Mexican-American artists to establish a unique artistic identity in the United States. Much of the art and the artists creating Chicano Art were heavily influenced by Chicano Movement (El Movimiento) which began in the 1960s.

Chicano studies originated in the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s. Chicano Studies concerns itself with the study of Chicanos, Latinos, and Mexican Americans, drawing upon a variety of fields, including, but not limited to, history, sociology, the arts, and Chicana/Chicano theory.

“Latin” refers to those from countries whose languages derived from Latin. So you could refer to someone from Mexico, Spain, France, Italy or Brazil as being Latin. Some people who are Latino/Latina are also Hispanic and some Hispanics are also Latino/Latina but some people are only one or the other.