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Example sentences for: mestizo
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She is the mother of the mestizo race, La Raza (The People), and a political symbol for the oppressed and powerless.
La Raza is used by Chicanos because they identify as mestizo people and see themselves as members of a special race, a group of people with a distinct heritage and destiny.
The girls, rucas (Indian girls) or cholas (mestizo girls), may wear the same khaki pants or short tight skirts, highly teased long hair, and lots of eye makeup.
He is in the company of the historical mestizo character of Yo soy Joaquín, the revolutionary figure of Joaquín Murrieta, the mythical pachuco, the stately learned persona of Dr. Paredes, the gentle leadership of César Chávez; the bracero is the universally exploited farmworker, the campesino of the world.
Because they all came from upper-class families, they were educated in Spanish traditions and language and consequently ignored the mestizo (mixed-race) and indigenous aspects of the culture, often depicting their past in romantic pastoral terms.
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