Linda I understand about them words. I consider myself a Mexican Indian
female. And I dont like it when someone calls me Chicana, Hispanice or
Latina. Because to me I am none of them titles. Just my 2 cents.

              ~~glo~~







From: "Erlinda Castanon-Long" 
Reply-To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ranchos] dialoge of the dead?
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:08:57 -0000

Joseph, WOW!!!!

What a great format for airing our concerns about who we are as a
group of people as diverse and any other ethnic group!

My father hates to this day the word "Chicano" because in his younger
days in California it was used in a very negative, gang style manner.
To him it's a put down and very militant.  I guess that's how we pick
up our own racist attitudes, we learn them at home... I still cring
when someone calls me Chicana.. so much to unlearn and with the help
of forums like this I'm getting better!

thank you again Joseph
Linda in Everett

Oh what a photos exposition I went trough! Some tears it cost me. What 
a treasure! Cameras are time machines, the images are frozen but they 
rock and roll a world inside of us, innocent expectators, I traveled 
in the company of unknown people, but maybe it is the influence of the 
feeling "belonging to a group", but felt them like family. It is true 
then "nobody dies until it is forgotten". My mom past the way fiftheen 
years ago and she is so around me, when I see her in photos she is so 
photografed!   Leticia Leon Morales

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Joseph Puentes  wrote:
> >
> http://www.historynothype.com/deaddialog.htm
> 
> DIALOG of the DEAD--An Interactive One-Act Play
> By
> Rubén Sálaz Márquez
> 
> © Copyright 2005 by Rubén D. Sálaz
> 
>  Dramatis Personae
> 
> Narrator (female), Chicano, Above-It-All, María (female), Latino, 
> Immigrant (female), Hispano.
> 
> Heckler, Policeman, Immigration Officer (female), Army Soldier,
Sheriff, FBI Agent. Two male stage hands.
> 
> Dual roles:  Heckler/Sheriff; Policeman/Stagehand.
> 
> Scene:  The stage is dark and bare except for the Narrator standing 
> behind an upstage, brightly spotlighted (overhead) podium. 

Joseph,

That play sure is thought provoking.  By personifiying the prevalent
views of different segments of American society in an imaginary (but
realistic) debate, the first reaction from the spectator (or reader)
may be to identify with one of the characters in the play.  

But by the way the author chooses to end all, he's

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 11:56 AM
To:
ranchos@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ranchos] Re: double
surnames

Erlinda:

The whole Chicano vs.

Erlinda:

The whole Chicano vs. Mexican-American vs. Latin@ vs. Hispanic debate 
is a very contentious one in the United States.  I think that all of 
those terms are very politically laden such that there is no single 
one that everyone would agree with.  There is an interesting episode 
where the renowned author Sandra Cisneros balked at being featured in 
Hispanic magazine because of such a disagreement.  She agreed only 
after the magazine agreed to show her on the cover in a profile shot 
with a fake tatoo reading "LATINA" across her arm.

There is an interesting article on this:

http://www.hispanicmagazine.com/2000/dec/Features/latino.html

I suppose that if you want to designate descendancy from peoples of 
Mexico, Mexican or Mexican-American would be the most precise.  I 
will leave my commentary at that lest I get myself in trouble.

Interesting thing though, I have run across documents where the 
indigenous peoples of the area around Colotlan and Totatiche would 
refer to