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Example sentences for: chicano
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In Chicano oral tradition, stories about La Llorona, the Blue Lady, or Joaquín Murrieta can properly be called legends and almost always tell a story the audience wants to believe.
Aztlán takes a prominent place in murals, folk art, and folklore, and it continues to appear in Chicano literature today, as it has for over thirty years, in poetry, short stories, novels, and essay anthologies.
In her words, “Besides rendering a Chicano pinto presence in the rhythms of speech, Santana [the movie character] represents it in the stylized walk and prose of a pinto, a stance honed in the corridors behind prison walls or in the barrios of East L.A.” (1993, 130).
Considered the foremost scholar of Chicano folklore, Américo Paredes was a professor emeritus of English and anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin.
A phrase used to describe Chicano music, especially that of the late 1960s, which is a combination of Mexican and American music styles.
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