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The Monumento a La Raza at Avenida de los Insurgentes, Mexico City (inaugurated 12 October 1940)Flag of the Hispanic People
The Spanish expression la Raza[1] ('the people'[2] or 'the community';[3] literal translation: 'the race'[2]) has historically been used to refer to the mixed-race populations (primarily though not always exclusively in the Western Hemisphere),[4] considered as an ethnic or racial unit[5] historically deriving from the Spanish Empire, and the process of racial intermixing during the Spanish colonization of the Americas with the indigenous populations of the Americas.
The term was not widely used in Latin America in the early-to-mid-20th century but has been redefined and reclaimed in Chicanismo and the United Farm Worker organization since 1968. It still remains in active use specifically in the context of Mexican-American identity politics in the United States (see Chicano).[6] This terminology for mixed-race originated as a reference to "La Raza Cosmica" by José Vasconcelos, although it is no longer used in this context or associated with "La Raza Cosmica" ideology by Mexican-American, Native rights movements and activists in the United States.
^Sometimes over-capitalized as La Raza, or given in all-lowercase as la raza. Pronounced [laˈrasa]
^ abAssociated Press (July 13, 2017). "Why The Term 'La Raza' Has Complicated Roots In The US". Colorado Public Radio. Archived from the original on July 1, 2020. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
^"Defining La Raza". The Atlantic. May 29, 2009. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
^Filipinos, and people in the former Spanish colony of Equatorial Guinea are sometimes included in modern conceptions of the term.
^Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability, and Rights. Oxford / New York: Oxford University Press. 2018-07-17. ISBN 9780190909628.
The Spanish expression laRaza ('the people' or 'the community'; literal translation: 'the race') has historically been used to refer to the mixed-race...
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de laRaza or "Day of the Race". This was the case for Mexico, until it renamed it to “Day of the Pluricultural Nation” (still called Dia de laRaza locally)...
was formerly known as "Flag of the Hispanic race" (Spanish: Bandera de laraza hispánica). The flag is also sometimes occasionally alternately used to...
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Mexican children. In her 2018 book based on her PhD dissertation, Redeeming LaRaza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability, and Rights, Gabriela González...
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LaRaza metro station is a Mexico City Metro transfer station in the Gustavo A. Madero borough of Mexico City. It is a combined underground and at-grade...
struggle of urban youth, and created political awareness and participated in LaRaza Unida Party. The most prominent civil rights organization in the Mexican-American...
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Berets (Watsonville) East L.A. walkouts Los Siete de laRaza Chicano Liberation Front Black Panther Party Black power movement "La Causa". Online Archive...
californiana; nuevomexicano/nuevomexicana; tejano/tejana. Part/member of laRaza. (Internal identifier, Spanish for "the Race") American, solely. Chicano...
Relations. He served as the president and CEO of the National Council of LaRaza from 1974 to 2004 and as U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic from...
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