Words similar to pocho
Example sentences for: pocho
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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.
See also Agringado; Carpas; Pocho; El Teatro Campesino
Pocho (Half Mexican)
In Los Angeles, the writer Lalo Lopez has created a comic industry based on pocho caricatures that includes a comic strip, political cartoons, Pocho Productions, an Internet web page, Pocho Magazine, a political satire zine, and a calendar.
As with the word cholo, individuals have attempted to find the origin of the use of the word pocho in reference to Chicanos.