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The Monumento a La Raza at Avenida de los Insurgentes, Mexico City (inaugurated 12 October 1940) Flag of the Hispanic People. In Mexico, the Spanish expression la Raza [1] ('the people' [2] or 'the community'; [3] literal translation: 'the race' [2]) has historically been used to refer to the mixed-race populations (primarily though not always exclusively in the Western Hemisphere), [4 ...
Miss Jiménez very reluctantly agrees to buy Eric for $15,000, when suddenly he begins staging a vocal protest in Spanish: "¡Viva la raza! ¡Viva la huelga! ¡Viva la revolución!" (Long live the people! Long live the strike! Long live the revolution!). Soon he snaps the three other models awake and they join in his miniature uprising.
"La Raza" is a song by American rapper Kid Frost. It was released in 1990 as the lead single from his debut studio album Hispanic Causing Panic."La Raza" is Spanish for "the race" or more symbolically "the people" as metonymy; it samples El Chicano's "Viva Tirado" from 1970 (a cover of the famous Gerald Wilson jazz composition).
The founding of La Raza was spearheaded by Episcopalian Reverend John Luce, Cuban-born activist Elizier Risco, and Ruth Robinson, Risco's girlfriend. The three initially met in early 1967 while Robinson and Risco were working for Cesar Chavez on El Malcriado, the Chicano farmworker's union newspaper, when Chavez asked Luce to provide housing and food to farm workers. [1]
Blanqueamiento in Spanish, or branqueamento in Portuguese (both meaning whitening), is a social, political, and economic practice used in many post-colonial countries in the Americas and Oceania to "improve the race" (mejorar la raza) [1] towards a supposed ideal of whiteness. [2]
Los Javis Unveil Upcoming Lorca-Inspired Feature ‘La Bola Negra’: The First Time the Duo Has ‘Written About What It Means to Be a Gay Man’ Jamie Lang January 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The band began with a series of demo recordings made by Hidalgo on a home cassette tape four-track machine. The demos were intended for Hidalgo's main group, Los Lobos, but producer/keyboardist Mitchell Froom thought the demos were interesting enough on their own to justify a new side-project.
Torres was one of the founders of the Centro Cultural de la Raza, also in San Diego.He helped form Los Toltecas en Aztlán, a Chicano artists group that was instrumental in converting a former water tank [3] in Balboa Park into a museum and cultural center with the specific mission of promoting, preserving and creating Chicano, native Mexicano, Latin American and Indian art and culture.