Race Relations:latinos – Flashcards
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Color gradient
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the placement of people on a continuum from light to dark skin color rather than in distinct racial groupings by skin color
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panethnicity
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The development of solidarity between ethnic subgroups, as reflected in the terms Hispanic or Asian American
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Borderlands
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The area of common culture along the border between Mexico and the United States
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manquiladoras
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Foreign-owned companies on the Mexican side of the border with the U.S.
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Remittances
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Money sent by immigrants to their families in their countries of origin.
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Hometown clubs
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Nonprofit organizations that maintain close ties to immigrants' hometowns in Mexico and other Latin American countries
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Transnationals
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immigrants who sustain multiple social relationships that link their societies of origin and settlement
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Marielitos
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People who arrived from Cuba in the third wave of Cuban immigration, most specifically those forcibly deported by way of Mariel Harbor. the term is generally reserved for refugees seen as especially undesirable
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Dry foot, wet foot
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policy toward Cuban immigrants that allows those who manage to reach the US (dry foot) too remain but sends those who are picked up at sea (wet foot) back to Cuba
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Brain drain
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This is when the best and brightest of a country leave for better opportunities abroad.
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Repatriation
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1930's program of deporting Mexicans
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Braceros
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-Mexican farm laborers brought to work in the United States during WW11
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Mojados
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"Wetbacks"; derisive slang for Mexicans who enter illegally, supposedly by swimming the Rio Grande
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La Raza
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"The People," the term refers t I the rich heritage of Mexican Americans; it's used to denote a sense of pride among Mexican American today
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Culture of poverty
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A way of life that involves no future planning, no enduring commitment to marriage, and no work ethnic; this culture follows the poor even when they more out of the slums of the barrio
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Chicanismo
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an ideology emphasizing pride and positive identity among Mexican Americans
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Neoricans
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Puerto Ricans who return to the island to settle after living on the mainland of the US (also Nuyoricans)
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Nuyoricans
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A term islanders use for Puerto Ricans in New York
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Neocolonialism
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continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries
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World systems theory
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A view of the global economic system as divided between nations that control wealth and those that provide natural resources and labor
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Tracking
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The practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of their test scores and other criteria.
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Familism
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Pride and closeness in the family that result in placing family obligation and loyalty before individual needs.
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Mixed status
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Families in which one or more members are citizens and one or more are noncitizens
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Life chances
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Max Weber used the term ____ ____ to refer to people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods, positive living conditions, and favorable life experiences
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Curanderismo
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Hispanic folk medicine
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Pentecostalism
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a religion similar in many respects to evangelical faiths that believes in the infusion of the Holy Spirit into services and in religious experiences such as faith healing
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Susto
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Or fright sickness, Another aspect of folk beliefs is the identification of folk - defined illness
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Atague
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Fighting attacks (folk - defined illness)
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Folk healers
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Aka curanderos
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Campadrazgo
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The godparent-godchild relationship. Important aspect of familism
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blanco
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means white
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trigueño
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means bronze or wheat colored
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moreno
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means dark skinned
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negro
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means black
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culture of poverty
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explains continued poverty
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vendidos
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means traitor
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malinche
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the ultimate insult, its the name Mexican American women who became the mistress if Spanish conqueror Cortés
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underclass
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means it's unfair to blame the poor for their lack of money, low edu, poor health, and low-paying jobs
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assimilation may be the key
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in history of many immigrant groups
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key term for Mexicans
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la raza
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MALDEF
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Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
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Mexican Americans are also referred to as
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Chicanos
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recién llegados
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recently arrived; these immigrants have again introduced more openly anti-Castro feelings even as the presidency transferred from Fidel Castro to his brother Raúl in 2008
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Marielitos remains a stigma
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in the media and in Florida
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NAFTA
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North American Free Trade Agreement; exchange of media across the border
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the Spanish or Latin American origin
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is collectively called Hispanic or Latinos
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taquerias
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small restaurants
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today nearly 32 million or 2/3 of hispanics in the U.S.
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are Mexican Americans or Chicanos
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mestizo Hondurans, mulatto Colombians, African Panamanians reflects
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they reflect the continuum of color gradient
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among Hispanic youth age 16-25, only 25% minority
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prefers to use panethnic names such as Hispanic or Latino
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UFW
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United Farm Workers formally known as National Farm Workers Association
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Chicanismo also known as
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Chicanozaje
