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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Mexican-Americans and Chicanos. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page. See the to-do list under Tasks.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

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[edit] Announcements

[edit] Title

WikiProject on Mexican-Americans and Chicanos

[edit] Scope

This project will encompass all aspects of the experience of Mexican-Americans in the United States, including culture, history, politics, business, sports, etc. It will also cover the experience of the Hispano people, the descendents of the original Spanish and Novo-Spanish settlers of the Southwest, as well. It will likewise cover the relationships between Mexican-Americans, Chicanos, Hispanos, and other ethnic groups in the United States, as well as the relationship Mexican-Americans, Chicanos, and Hispanos have with Mexico and Mexicans.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

WikiProject Ethnic Groups
WikiProject Latinos

[edit] Related Wikiportals

Portal:Latino_and_Hispanic_American

Portal:Mexico

Portal:Culture maybe?

[edit] Related Collaborations

Mexico Collaboration

[edit] Related groups of Wikipedians


[edit] Participants

[edit] Awards

El Sombrero Award was created to recognize any editor who has made exceptional contributions to articles about Latinos and/or Hispanics in the United States as well as articles about Latin America. Everyone is welcome to use it.

The con safos jalapeño, for use in awarding people Chicano awards as part of the Kindness Campaign.

The Huelga Award, a Chicano/Mexican-American award.

[edit] To do

  • /Todo – Our "to-do" list of tasks to be completed

[edit] Conventions, Subpages and V1.0 pages

[edit] Goals

  1. To create a body of articles that accurately depicts the history and culture of Mexican Americans and Chicanos in the United States.
  2. To combat ignorance in Mexican-American and Chicano related articles. Many existing articles need expansion or complete rewrites. Simply using good sources would counteract a great deal of the problems with these articles. (See Rockero's list of articles needing work. It excludes many autobiographies, but targets many articles affected by heavy POV.)
  3. To standardize articles on Mexican-American and Chicano subjects. They should have similar layouts, formatting, etev.
  4. To include all relevant information, making especially certain to include the voices of women, the poor, the indigenous, and basically all the rest of the chusma (providing the info. is sourced, of course).
  5. To standardize the use of Spanish-language terms, names, and translations into English across the series.
  6. Chicano Movement as a featured article.



[edit] Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

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[edit] For talk pages

Type this: {{WikiProject Mexican-Americans}} to create an info box identifying this project.

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[edit] Categories

[edit] Lists

[edit] Articles

[edit] Wikipedia articles on Mexican-American and Chicano Topics

(We didn't write all these, but here is a better place for them than my watchlist)

[edit] Academia (El mundo académico)

[edit] Activists (Activistas)

[edit] Criminals (Los Criminales)

[edit] Culture (La Cultura)

[edit] Geography and history (La geografía y la historia)

[edit] Lists (Las Listas)

[edit] Radio, television & film (Las programas de radio, televisíon y cinematografía)

[edit] Military (Las fuerzas armadas)

[edit] Music (La Música)

[edit] Organizations (Las Organizaciones)

[edit] Political figures (Las figuras políticas)

Includes elected and appointed politicians, functionaries, and diplomats

[edit] Publications (Las Publicaciónes)

[edit] Religion (La Religión)

[edit] Sports (Los Deportes)

[edit] Terms (Los Términos)

[edit] Visual Arts (Las Artes Visuales)

[edit] Writers (Los Escritores)

[edit] Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Mexican-American/Chicano Topics

[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to Mexican/American and Chicano Topics

Please feel free to list your new Mexican-American/Chicano-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYK has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

[edit] Did you know?

  • ...that Tomás Rivera a Chicano author, poet, and educator, was the first Mexican American chancellor of the University of California system?
  • ...that the first gang injunction to make headlines was obtained by Los Angeles City Attorney James Hahn against the West Los Angeles-based street gang the Playboy Gangster Crips in 1987?
Updated DYK query Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Emilio Kosterlitzky, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.
Updated DYK query Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Chicanismo, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.
Updated DYK query Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Ricardo Cruz, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.
Updated DYK query Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Catolicos Por La Raza, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.
  • ...that Rini Templeton created works of graphic art for the New Mexico Land-Grant movement before moving to Mexico to collaborate with the Labor movement there?
—She'll be included in Chicano/a artists when we get around to making the category. Many artists of Chicano art are not ethnic Chicanos (which I think is one cool thing about it).--Rockero 04:34, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
Updated DYK query Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Teatro Campesino, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.
Updated DYK query Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Estela Ruiz, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.
Updated DYK query Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Sal Castro, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

[edit] Article improvement drive

  • Reconquista (Mexico) should be watched. I just removed the marjority of the text because of a number of unsourced, POV assertions (pro and con). -Will Beback 23:30, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Collaboration of the week

[edit] Peer review

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Featured article candidates

[edit] Featured pictures

[edit] Featured picture candidates

[edit] Featured lists

[edit] Featured list candidates

[edit] Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

[edit] Votes for deletion

We have had some categorization issues, and I wanted to discuss them here before nominating any of them for deletion. One is Category:La Raza, which is currently a subcategory of Category:Chicano. Since the term "raza" is used in different ways depending on its context, I don't think it is the best way to name the category (I'd like to nominate it for deletion). Recently, someone created Category:Chicano, which I think may be helpful for Chicano- (politics, art, and culture) -related articles. One problem (and I am guilty of this) is that Category:Mexican Americans was applied to articles that were not biographies. So Cat:Chicano may be a good way to group non-biographical articles together. But I also think we need another (non-subcat) category for people who identify (-ied) themselves as Chicanos, so confusion may arise between the singular (for culture, etc.) and plural (for people). So maybe Cat:Chicano should be renamed? Any suggestions? Finally, there are six subcategories under Category:Mexican American artists, which is currently populated by both visual and musical artists. I think we need a Category:Chicano art, of which Category:Chicana art may be a subcategory, and we can use for Chicano art-related terms and concepts (such as Home altar and rasquachismo), but I am just getting started untangling this categorization issue, so I would appreciate any input, suggestions, or objections.--Rockero 23:58, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Check out the result of a recent debate on the matter.--Rockero 07:22, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Deletion sorting

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The La Raza-related articles at VFD are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/La Raza.

[edit] Resources

[edit] Reference works

  • Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 209: Chicano Writers, Third Series [4]
  • Handbook of Texas Online
  • Borderline: A Bibliography of the United States-Mexico Borderlands (Massive tool for locating social sciences and humanities research materials dealing with the borderlands region. Some entries annotated; includes author index. Barbara G. Valk, et al., eds. Purdy/Kresge Library, LCCN Z 1251 .M44 V35 1988)
  • Chicano Anthology Index: A Comprehensive Author, Title and Subject Index to Chicano Anthologies, 1965-1987 (Massive index to over 5000 essays and literary works about Chicanos. Includes subject, author, title indexes.) Francisco García-Ayvens. 1990. Purdy/Kresge Reference, LCCN Z1361.M4 G37 1990

[edit] Histories

Specifically on the Movement:

  • Cervantes, Leo. More than a century of the Chicano movement. 2004
  • Chávez, Ernesto. "Mi raza primero!" (My people first!) : nationalism, identity, and insurgency in the Chicano movement in Los Angeles, 1966-1978 Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002. (available online from UC campuses: [5])
  • Delgado, Abelardo B. The Chicano movement: some not too objective observations Denver, Colo.: distributed by Totinem Publications, 1971.
  • Chicano!: A History of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement
  • García, Ignacio M. Chicanismo: the forging of a militant ethos among Mexican Americans Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1997.
  • Mariscal, George. Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement 1965-1975. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2005.
  • Meier, Matt S. Encyclopedia of the Mexican American civil rights movement. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.
  • Muñoz, Carlos. Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement. London and New York: Verso, 1989.
  • Oropeza, Lorena. Raza sí!, guerra no!: Chicano protest and patriotism during the Viet Nam war era. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005.
  • San Miguel, Guadalupe. Brown, not white : school integration and the Chicano movement in Houston College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2001.
  • Treviño, Jesús Salvador. Eyewitness : a filmmaker’s memoir of the Chicano Movement Houston, Tex. : Arte Pʹublico Press, 2001.
  • Trujillo, Armando L. Chicano empowerment and bilingual education : movimiento politics in Crystal City, Texas New York : Garland Pub., c1998.
  • Vigil, Ernesto B. The Crusade for Justice: Chicano Militancy and the Government's War On Dissent Madison University of Wisconsin Press, 1999.


General histories:

  • Acuña, Rodolfo. Occupied America
  • Gonzales-Berry, Erlinda and David Maciel. Contested Homeland: a Chicano History of New Mexico. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2000.
  • De Anda, Roberto M. Chicanas and Chicanos in Contemporary Society. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1996.
  • Del Castillo, Richard Griswold. La Familia: Chicano Families in the Urban Southwest, 1848 to the Present. Notre Dame, 1984
  • Iber, Jorge. Hispanics in the American West Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2006.
  • Martínez, Elizabeth "Betita". 500 Años de Historia Chicana.
  • Meier, Matt S., and Feliciano Ribera. Mexican Americans/American Mexicans: From Conquistadors to Chicanos. NY: Hill and Wang, 1993.
  • Sanchez, George J. Becoming Mexican American:Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles. UC Press, 1993.
  • Segura Camacho, Julian. The Chicano treatise Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005.
  • Shane, C.J. (editor). The Mexicans Farmington, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2005.
  • Ruiz Vicki L. From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America. NY: Oxford University Press, 1998

Sociological studies:

[edit] Archives

  • Archive #1