Example sentences for: chicano

How can you use “chicano” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It is part of the folklore repertoire of Chicano culture since the Mexican-U.S.

  • With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero, published in 1958 by the University of Texas Press, is not only one of the most important academic works on the history of the Chicano, but it is also respected as major scholarship in the field of folklore studies, and specifically on the genre of the ballad.

  • There are many non-Chicano car clubs, and the Japanese have also adopted it.

  • Chicano wedding rituals vary from state to state in the Southwest and the Midwest, often incorporating emerging American customs, but there are still common traditions that originate with Catholicism and the Spanish heritage that are shared from community to community.

  • The word became more nationally known in 1959 with the publication of the novel Pocho by Jose Antonio Villarreal, which depicted the coming-of-age of a Chicano growing up in the Santa Clara Valley of California during the 1940s.


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