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| person of mixed heritage. Represents a racial category within the context of Latin American mixing of cultures and languages. |
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| a term that refers to the blending of European, Indian, and African people and cultures in Latin America. It is used to understand the Latino experience in the US. |
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| Socially constructed in the US that identifies people of Latin American and Spanish descent living in the US today. Used by Census of Population. Homogenizes Spanish speaking people into one category |
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| Socially constructed term used by some people of Latin American descent in some regions of the US. Pan-ethnic label. |
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| social exclusion of racialized minorities socially, politically, and economically. |
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| descendants of Latin America have worked to define themselves by their own specific national cultural values and traditions |
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| a term Mexican American students and working class youth use to refer to themselves as they organized two forms of political movements. |
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| coincides with when Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans were affirmed in the US as two different groups. President Nixon. |
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| When distinct cultural groups are grouped into one erasing identity |
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| concept used by Puerto Ricans that were raised in NY |
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| Ideology of Undeservingness |
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| belief that some groups should be excluded because they are believed to have the wrong values |
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| the church was the dominant structure. discouraged independence for the Native Americans. |
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| stated that the Native Americans were to be treated as equals and free subjects. Was widely ignored by Spaniards. |
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| a system in Latin America where a tiny portion of the whites owned most of the land and all others were laborers |
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| Monroe Doctrine/Manifest Destiny |
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| Monroe Doctrine used the slogan "America for Americans." Manifest Destiny - God's given right to take land |
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| a policy promoting military use or threat. |
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| declared the island a US territory and authorized the President to name appoint political leaders |
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| court case that declared Puerto Rico part of the US but not the constitution |
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| – Free trade zone factories in Mexico that were run by the US that export all their products back to the US. |
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| threat of hispanic culture imposing itself over the american culture. done by large numbers of spanish immigrants |
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| Latinization of the US (Gonzalez) |
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| expectation that immigrants adapt all of the ways of the country they choose to live in. A+B+C=A |
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| The dispersion of immigrants is essential to assimilation. There is now a regional concentration of Hispanics in the US |
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| projects that industrialized puerto rico |
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| american citizens protesting their job loss to immigrants for the Latin Americas. They believe immigration will result in a replacement of white culture. |
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| Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca |
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| people who engage in unauthorized military expedition into a foreign country to stir up a revolution. William Walker |
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| established control over Cuba |
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| the integration of world markets into one |
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| Cuban President and military leader closely aligned with the US. Overthrown in Cuban Revolution |
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| The idea of delay in assimilation because of mistrust of people outside of the family; lack of initiative, self-reliance, and ambition; little use for education; and acceptance of poverty |
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