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Do You Speak American . Sea to Shining Sea . Official American . Spanish Threat. Does Spanish Threaten American English?

Do You Speak American . Sea to Shining Sea . Official American . Spanish Threat

American English is in no danger of disappearing any time soon according to linguist Betty Bimer. Though some people worry when they see Spanish showing up on billboards and pay phones, Bimer says not only is English firmly established in America, no language has ever held as strong a position in the world today. What does it mean to say somebody is bilingual? A bilingual person is someone who speaks two languages. A person who speaks more than two languages is called 'multilingual' (although the term 'bilingualism' can be used for both situations). 2012 Passat Commercial: Spanish "Vámonos" Code-switching.

Five Reasons Why People Code-Switch : Code Switch. Hide captionA sign in English, Chinese, and Vietnamese in Chinatown, Los Angeles.

Five Reasons Why People Code-Switch : Code Switch

PRINCE ROYCE - Stand By Me (New Version Video Oficial) Assimilation versus Acculturation. Latino Families Balance Tradition, Languages. What is identity? Latino. What Defines Latino Literature? One Hundred Years of Solitude. Black and Latino. Musique latine. Hispanic. Hispanic High School Graduates Pass Whites in Rate of College Enrollment. Hispanic College Fund. Definition of Latino and Hispanic, Which is Politically Correct Latino or Hispanic? The U.S.

Definition of Latino and Hispanic, Which is Politically Correct Latino or Hispanic?

Government often groups people of Hispanic and Latino origins together despite the words having two separate identity meanings to individuals and unique dictionary definitions. For this reason, neither term should be universally used to the exclusion of the other. Adding to the debate on which term is considered politically correct is that depending upon who you ask, you will likely get a different definition.

What is Latino/Hispanic? Hispanic Americans: Census Facts. By U.S.

Hispanic Americans: Census Facts

Census Bureau Population 53 million The Hispanic population of the United States as of July 1, 2012, making people of Hispanic origin the nation's largest ethnic or racial minority. Hispanics constituted 17 percent of the nation's total population. 1.1 million Number of Hispanics added to the nation's population between July 1, 2011, and July 1, 2012. Percentage increase in the Hispanic population between 2011 and 2012. 128.8 million The projected Hispanic population of the United States in 2060. 2nd Ranking of the size of the U.S.

The percentage of Hispanic-origin people in the United States who were of Mexican background in 2011. Cheech Marin: What Is A Chicano? Chicano Art. Los muralistas mexicanos. Octubre 4, 2012octubre 4, 2012Ricardo Beard El muralismo, movimiento artístico mexicano con fines educativos que ocurrió a principios del siglo XX, fue esencial para unificar a un país que estaba recuperándose de una revolución y aunque es comúnmente considerado como una corriente artística, también se le puede considerar como un movimiento político y social.

Los muralistas mexicanos

The City of Los Angeles. Los Angeles Unified School District. API - This link will allow you to view the District's Academic Performance Index (API) scores and/or growth.

Los Angeles Unified School District

Click hereAYP - The Adequate Yearly Progress report will tell you if the District has demonstrated progress in its: API scores, graduation rates, assessment participation rates, and in the academic areas of Language Arts and Mathematics. Click hereDARC - The District Accountability Report Card (DARC) will help you find District-wide sub-group results on the STAR and California Standards Test as well as District-wide demographics and a message from the Superintendent: NO LONGER AVAILABLE.District & Local District Profiles - These profiles will provide you with detailed information including student racial and ethnic history, student attendance, and staffing at the district wide and local district levels. Click hereDropout Report - Access the District's dropout rates by ethnic group and grade level from the California Department of Education.

East L.A. Blowouts: Walking Out for Justice in the Classrooms. In 1967 Mexican American students throughout the Southwest held a 60% high school dropout rate.

East L.A. Blowouts: Walking Out for Justice in the Classrooms

If they did graduate, they averaged an 8th-grade reading level. Due to Anglo-centric internal school policies many Chicano students were fielded to vocational training or classes for the mentally disabled. 1968 East LA Blowouts. Walkout. Los Angeles: Painted City. Mexican-Americans have rarely been adequately represented in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles: Painted City

Most historical accounts of the city fail to include them and other minorities who have contributed to the colorful history of the city. To combat this neglect, Chicanos, along with other minority groups, have depicted their experiences in street murals, most notably in The Great Wall of Los Angeles. Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles. Artist was assisted by local gang members and others.

Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles

Latin Jesus with arms outstretched. The artist was initially contacted by leaders of the South Los (Solos) gang, who wanted an outdoor mural of Jesus in their... These portraits include actors Rickey Rourke and Sylvester Stallone, Beverly Hills hair stylist Guiseppi Franco, Hugh Hefner, developer Gene Snyder, and Stewart Zilberberg (owner of Scenery West). City of San Diego Official Website. Architects and a Dream: A History of Displacement and Reclamation. CHICANO LITERARY RENAISSANCE. CHICANO LITERARY RENAISSANCE.

CHICANO LITERARY RENAISSANCE

The Chicano literary renaissance, a flowering of all forms of literature by Mexican Americans throughout the Southwest, started in 1965 with the Teatro Campesino (Farmworkers Theater) in California. In Texas, however, the renaissance started in 1969, with the publication of poet Abelardo Delgado's 25 Pieces of a Chicano Mind, and lasted for about ten years of renewed literary activity among Mexican Americans in the state. The writers reaffirmed their ethnic identity and addressed their community through fiction, poetry, essays, and works of drama that responded to its political, economic, and social history. They also pioneered in Texas literature the use of "Spanglish," which combines English and Spanish into new words or mixes words of the two languages in the same passage. The House on Mango Street - The Story. Growing Up Chicana/o Summary - n/a - Magill Book Reviews - Tiffany Ana Lopez has...

Tiffany Ana Lopez has collected stories about what it is like to grow up Chicana/o in the United States, and to belong to a large ethnic group whose culture and history was for many years ignored by mainstream American culture.