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History of Latinos in the US
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Undergraduate 2
11/27/2012

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La Causa
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biography
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Dolores Huerta
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Labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded National Farmworkers Association w/ Cesar Chavez.
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Huelga
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Strike
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Scabs
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worked in place of people on striks. broke the farming strikes
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strategy of non-violence
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seeks to undermine the power of rulers by encouraging people to withdraw their consent and cooperation
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Mahatma Gandhi
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the father of the Indian independence movement.
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Civil Disobedience
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Resistance to civil government
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Walter Reuther
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American Labor union leader who supported New Deal
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Teatro Campesino Luis Valdez
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short skits that gave voices to the chicano farm workers. (grape pickers)
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Table Grape boycott
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boycott in order to recieve better working environments for mexican migrant workers in grape fields filled with pesticides
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Guagua aerea
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tendency for puerto ricans to go back and forth to u.s. "air bus"
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operation bootstrap
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industrialization of puerto rico
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panga
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fishing boat
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mica
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coyote
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sanctuary movement
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migration of central americans to united states (sheltered by faith)
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liberation theology
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religion from poor person's perspective (god acknowledges)
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the empire's old clothes
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dorfman reveals the ideological messages conveyed in pop culture
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agusto pinochet
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dictator of chile
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salvador allende
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president of chile
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desaparecidos
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a person who was killed by military/police
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santeria
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syncretic religion influenced by catholocism
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curandera/curanderia
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women who practice folk medicine
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zango/chango, yemaya, obatala, eleggua, ochun
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africken gods
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siete potencias/seven african powers
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Lau v. nichols
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supreme court case that ppl w/ limited language proficiency should be treated equally
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lau remedies
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provided educational services to non english speaking students
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weapons of the weak
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james c. scott studies effects of the green revolution
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Spanglish
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Transnationalism
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tendency for some hispanic migrants to have duel citizenship
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anglicism
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words from england that were accepted as spanish
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code switching
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unknowingly switching from one language to another in conversation
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Puente
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grassroots org
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BVM
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Marez
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Gabacha
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White (anglo)
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Gregorio Cortez
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Mexican American Folk hero outlaw
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Corrido
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songs about pooression, history, daily life for peasants, socially important info.
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