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What do some Chicanos struggle to separate themselves from, while others embrace it?

• their Indian origins

• their European origins

• their language

• their history

Match the following

• assimilation into the Anglo society through its language and values

• the traditional rejection of their Indian origins is part of a:

• Mexican American's struggle to accommodate himself to a very hostile environment in the U.S.

• The causes for this rejection has to do with the:

• larger rejection of their entire antecedent cultural identification which is both Mexican & mestizo

• the U.S. environment has always emphasized:

How has Anglo society portrayed Mexicans?

• dirty or the greaser

• pot-bellied "bandido" or complacent (self-satisfied unaware of threats)

• mean and savage

• treacherous

How has Anglo society portrayed Indians?

• dirty or the greaser

• pot-bellied "bandido" or complacent (self-satisfied unaware of threats)

• mean and savage

• treacherous

Match the following:

• damaging; having harmful effect, especially in a slow, gradual or subtle way

• disdain

• a person's social environment; background

• hostile

• opposed or unfriendly; confrontational or aggressive

• antecedent

• previous; an event that existed before

• pernicious

• consider to be unworthy of one's consideration

• milieu

Match the how the identity and their historical experience was different for Mexicans born and raised in Mexico and those who lived in the United States:

• Indianness with pride

• Two socializing institutions in American society are:

• schools and mass media

• 1930s, under Mexican President Cardenas, Mexicans started to accept:

• the way to succeed in America was to emulate Anglos

• League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) all stressed:

• NOT accept Indianness

• Mexican-Americans with the highly distorted view held by Anglos, could:

The Chicano Movement with its emphasis on pride in being La Raza is, at least, a response to:

• the pressure toward assimilation

• satisfaction with the social order of mainstream American society

• the refusal to be absorbed to Anglo society

• dissatisfaction with the social order of mainstream American society

In the 1920s and 1930s, who was the Mexican theorist who developed the theory of la raza cósmica (the cosmic or super race)?

• José Vasconcelos

• José Urquidi

• Rafael Zubarán Capmany

• Dolores Huerta

• Cesar Chavez

What does the concept of La Raza connote (imply/suggest) and who most universally accepts this term?

• mestizo is a distinct (clearly different) race and NOT Caucasian

• Mexican Americans

• mestizo is part of being Caucasian

• Anglo Americans

In terms of shared hatred, how did Mexicans establish report or affiliation with the conqueror?

• toward indios barbaros (savage indians)

• toward nomadic Utes, Navajos, Apaches, and Comanches

• once it was determined that the previous Christianizing program of the mission was ineffectual with indios barbaros, the nomads

• Carried military campaigns against the Navajos, Apaches, and Utes

• Welcomed military might to use against the rampaging Indians