How to Use Chicano in a Sentence

Chicano

noun

• But what we do get immersed in is the vibrant Chicano culture.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 7 June 2023
• Three decades later, the hobby turned political with the rise of the Chicano movement.
  — Natalie Arroyo Camacho, refinery29.com, 12 Sep. 2023
• Anthony De Leon was born and raised in Fresno to a Chicano family.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023
• Asco was never the sort to take votes or adhere to a manifesto like Los Four, another prominent Chicano group of the era.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
• There’s a world of difference between, say, a Chicano lead character and a Cuban American one.
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• She’s been making art since the 1970s, and also working as a teacher in San Francisco, but showing the art of Chicano artists was the province of art spaces, not museums.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 13 Jan. 2024
• Students from five area high schools left their classrooms to protest unequal education, marking the start of the urban Chicano rights movement.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
• Much has been written (some of it by yours truly) about the sideways sense of homesickness that permeates the Chicano experience.
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
• Times reporter Reed Johnson chatted with Valdez on the play’s origins, legacy and lasting impact on Chicano theater.
  — Steve Padilla, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
• The film explores the pollution that has plagued Barrio Logan and a Chicano community’s fight for a cleaner future.
  — U-T Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2023
• Flores says that the idea of using an altar as both an act of remembrance and justice is part of what the Chicano community has embraced in Los Angeles.
  — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
• Willy Chavarria borrowed its plaids and houndstooths and juxtaposed them against nods to Western and Chicano all-American fashion.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 16 Feb. 2024
• Roberto Rodriguez, a prolific chronicler of Chicano life, is dead at 69.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• Curriculum changes such as the inclusion of Chicano history and heroes were needed.
  — Richard J. Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Mar. 2024
• Advertisement At the Cheech, art history is grounded in the Chicano experience — past, present and future.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2024
• Watch Chicano Batman’s full Billboard News interview above.
  — Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 22 Mar. 2024
• Mexican Americans who grew up during the 1960s Civil Rights era may identify as Chicano.
  — Terry Tang, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023
• Young Chicano activists walked out of high schools and staged marches demanding political representation and an end to civic neglect of the Eastside.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• The exhibit will also show how these automotive wonders are built, as well as feature works from some of the most influential artists and photographers from the Chicano Art Movement.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 15 July 2024
• The single is accompanied by a video featuring them vibing together in local wildlands and downtown lofts, making for quite the Chicano hippie duo.
  — Kamren Curiel, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• Their demands were similar to those around the country at the time, including courses on Chicano history, hiring more Chicano teachers and counselors, and lengthening lunch breaks.
  — Sam Russek, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2023
• Young Chicano activists walked out of schools to protest inadequacies in education.
  — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Mar. 2022
• And the idea of the hippie generation being portrayed by this Chicano lowrider and this half-Chinese dude, and representing different aspects of America?
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2024
• The track by the 1990s Chicano rap group features an irresistible hook from vocalist Shiro that transports me right to a carne asada, that summertime ritual that is arguably embedded in the local genetic code.
  — Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2023
• The exhibition marks a major solo outing for Terrill in Los Angeles, putting a spotlight on an artist and activist who, for decades, has chronicled his life and that of a circle of Chicano intimates in poignant and irreverent ways.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• Sumney spent his adolescence in Riverside among the Chicano culture Chavarria often references in his collections.
  — Devan Díaz, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• Back then, activists wanted a Chicano Studies program, a community center and more Chicano students at the then-overwhelmingly white campus.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024
• In 2014, Amon completed her doctorate with emphases in critical theory and Chicano studies.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2024
• Portillo focused her work on writing, directing and producing film and videos that centered the emotions and circumstances of Latin American, Mexican and Chicano experiences.
  — Selena Kuznikov, Variety, 21 Apr. 2024
• For more information on the 53rd annual Chicano Park Day celebration, visit chicano-park.com.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024