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It’s a Mexican/Spanish song with a peacock bird noise at the beginning Well it sounds like a peacock. Or a bird. I think it’s a person doing a grito but it sounds like it. Relatively fast paced. The chorus might be something like “sin tu amor” or “con tu amor”, maybe? And the chorus has a call and response of that phrasing, one high pitched and the response is lower pitched. Heard it a lot at family parties.

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I have to conduct an interview for a research project on Pachucos for one of my classes. If have had any affiliation with Pachucos, are knowledgeable about them, or even are one, I'd appreciate if you could give 10-15 minutes on a zoom call (preferably from LA). We would really just be talking about the culture a bit and I can provide the questions early if you're interested. I can do it in english or spanish at whatever time works for you.

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I put a lot of time and research into creating this playlist. It is made up of the best underground G funk songs. Some albums are better known than others, but overall there are a lot of albums and songs that are underground, or even little known. I update it fairly regularly. Enjoy.

any good books written by a chicano

Hi,

Anyone see the controversy UFC fighter Sean Strickland is stirring up on X?

He came out with a tweet directed at Mexican-Americans that wave around the Mexican flag instead of the American flag. He then tries to morally justify that waving around the flag of the country in which you emigrated from is bad, because living in the US trumps being proud of your heritage. I know, its dumb af lol.

Keep in mind, Strickland has came out in the past that he had been a racist and white supremacist before his time in the UFC, and it is pretty evident that he is one of those dudes that looks down on any non-American.

Thoughts?

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I need some good sources about chicanos for a school project. As a chicana myself I haven't found any really 'good ones' as I haven't had the time to do a deep dive but I just need some recommendations so if you have any its appreciated! Thank you!😁👍

The US has tried to erase us so much it's wild.

Hi! I am looking for resources/books on the biracial experience. I am half chicanx (my mother) and half white (my father). I was mostly raised by my mom’s side of the family, but I was never taught Spanish. For years I have struggled with my identity. “Not mexican enough” to be labeled chicana but “not white enough” to be labeled just white. I am also white passing so there is the added experience of white privilege within wider American society. If anyone has any good books or resources on being biracial in modern American Society that would be fantastic. Thank you!

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Question is in the title. My whole life I’ve always been looked down upon as a Chicano by Mexicans and 1st generation Mexican-Americans, because I don’t speak Spanish. They don’t really understand the racial climate of the United States prior to the 1970’s and why a lot of Mexican-Americans chose to fully embrace English as the first language. Recently all over social media I’ve been seeing a lot of hate towards Chicanos and so called “no-sabos” even by first gen Mexican-Americans who themselves wouldn’t even be considered Mexican by paisas, so my question really is, why do you think they hate us and despise us so much even if we are the same people, and two do you guys think it will ever change?

Would also be very niche but if anyone knew of a Spanish podcast about ac Milan that would be amazing

by definition, I am Chicano. Im curious if it would be ok or respectful to wear a zuit to my upcoming prom.

I’ve recently had an experience with colorism. For context, both of my parents are Mexican, my father is from Chiapas and my mom’s father is from Mexico with her mom hailing from Texas. My mom has very fair skin but definitely has Latino features with my father being darker than say the average Mexican.

I was in school when another Mexican told me that he’s better because he’s darker, and that brown Mexicans are just better. While he said it kinda jokingly he was also being serious.

I’m not really sure what to think of this, we go to a predominantly white school in a more rural area that me and my family recently moved too. I personally thinks he did this to compensate, or something to that level, as he has a hard time not forcefully interjecting the fact he’s Mexican into everything.

He called me a “white Mexican” which I suppose kinda fits me, but I’m still darker than most white people, and yeah he’s darker than me, but not by much. And my father is predominantly indigenous, he definitely looks it, my grandmother speaks Mam, with my father knowing a little too, and our last name is in Mayan, and I’ve literally had encounters with racism.

I feel as if he tries too hard to be Mexican if that makes sense, I’m not referring to ethnic pride, but he constantly makes mention to the fact he’s Mexican, and he and another Mexican have this echo chamber of just blindly jerking themselves for being the same ethnicity, and they try and drag me in too and I don’t like it.

He’s also said that I’m “white washed” because I don’t speak Spanish, even though I can, and better than he can, it’s little things like this that annoy me, he tries to “out Mexican me” but always looks annoyed or aggravated when it doesn’t work.

It’s just annoying, I’ve had other encounters with Mexican people here and they’ve been great, the sense of community here of being in this group, I remember this one girls who was darker than me but we still connected over our heritage, discussing things like culture, experience, even our connection with the natives. I just don’t know why this one person has to constantly bring up the fact that I’m lighter.

But I guess it makes some sense, he looked baffled when I told him Mexican wasn’t a race, its just weird, idk, I just wanted somewhere to vent

As you reach for that formidable bowl of popcorn drenched in butter and loaded with salt to enjoy what this thread will surely become, take a moment to consider a few pieces of information about Aztecs, indigenous peoples, and why identifying with Aztecs is furthering the process of assimilation. First, we must define Aztec, something which people usually fail to do properly. The word Aztec has a convoluted history. Somewhere in what is most likely Northern Mexico, a groop of linguistically related peoples began to migrate South starting some 1500 years ago. Today, we call these the Nahuas. As they arrived in the Mexican valley, they mixed with and added to the patchwork of groups already present. The last of these Nahuas to enter what is now central Mexico were a group called the Azteca. After some disastrous dealings with other city states of the region the Aztecs ended up confined to a small island in the middle of the lake. Here, they renamed themselves, and became the Mexica. The reality is that Aztecs were an Extreme Minority in that region even by the most literal estimation of their populations. This is because the Mexica were considered to be chiefly the inhabitants of the cities Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco, with the latter having split off from the former. When the Spanish arrived, their accounts called these people Mexicans. But the Mexica were eventually assimilated both by the Spanish and other indigenous peoples. Plenty of Nahuas still remain, but they are usually called by other names and have no verifiable connections to the Mexica in a majority of cases. But a day came when Mexican elites decided it was time to resurrect the Aztec. This manifested in their their of a Mestizo identity through which all of the rural natives could be acculturated to European norms. This was a continuing and slight redefinition of Mestizaje. In this new Mexican history, only the Aztecs and maybe the Maya mattered. But the Yaqui, Purepecha, Zapotecs, Otomi and countless others fell out of the National consciousness.
Today, in keeping with it's tradition of terrible ethnic and racial classification, the US is slowly adding Aztec to their census. And this does nothing but continue the myth that started in Mexico, moved north here, and today only serves to continue the erasure of all other Mexican indigenous groups. And in our laziness and lack of want to understand indigenous dynamics, we grab on to this lie because something something identity something something Aztlan.

Does anyone have the pdf they can DM me? I lost my book and can't find the pdf. Thanks.

Is tejano music just a subgenre of chicano music ?

Are tejanos just chicanos?

I heard he passed away, but I haven’t seen any obituary or news or anything. Anyone heard anything?

Chicano rap that isn’t norteño sureño or tejano?

Anyone witnessed family members nervously chuckling? Or changing the subject? Or getting distressed and raising their voice?

Don't you know that the term ''Native American'' in the USA legally only applies to Natives from tribes in the current US territory? Which means that Native people from outside the USA don't count as ''Native American''.

So indigenous people from Mexico are not ''Native Americans'' in the USA because they're not from ''America'' aka the USA.

I know it doesn't make sense to us, but you need to remember that the United States hijacked the name ''America'' in 1776 and didn't care about we people in Spanish speaking places.

Im a mexican girl whos never been to bailes ive always been a homebody and recently ive been curious to see what it feels like to go to a baile and i asked my boyfriend if he wants to experience that with me and like straight up said im not a party person what do u guys think i should do?