How to Use Chicano in a Sentence

Chicano

noun

• One black, one Jewish, one Chicano, one straight, and us, the freaks.
  — Tom Burke, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2024
• But what we do get immersed in is the vibrant Chicano culture.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 7 June 2023
• The park is a product of people power, home to the world’s largest collection of Chicano murals.
  — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2026
• Three decades later, the hobby turned political with the rise of the Chicano movement.
  — Natalie Arroyo Camacho, refinery29.com, 12 Sep. 2023
• Howard says his Chicano family background influenced the method of his tattoos.
  — Serena Billett, Charlotte Observer, 20 May 2025
• The show’s poster, a large black and white image of a young Chicano couple kissing, acted as a background to the impromptu car show.
  — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024
• The Chicano Movement shared its message through vibrant murals across the Bay Area.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• Anthony De Leon was born and raised in Fresno to a Chicano family.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023
• Romo, Flores’ teaching partner, connects the farm lessons to his Chicano heritage.
  — Corie Brown, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2024
• Students from five area high schools left their classrooms to protest unequal education, marking the start of the urban Chicano rights movement.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
• His mom is white and his dad is Chicano, so Diaz draws from multi-cultural roots and from a Midwestern background.
  — Gary Stern, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
• This project preserves the history of Chicano artists from the 1960s to the 1980s.
  — Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 9 Aug. 2025
• Much has been written (some of it by yours truly) about the sideways sense of homesickness that permeates the Chicano experience.
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
• There’s a world of difference between, say, a Chicano lead character and a Cuban American one.
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• Asco was never the sort to take votes or adhere to a manifesto like Los Four, another prominent Chicano group of the era.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
• Times reporter Reed Johnson chatted with Valdez on the play’s origins, legacy and lasting impact on Chicano theater.
  — Steve Padilla, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
• The film explores the pollution that has plagued Barrio Logan and a Chicano community’s fight for a cleaner future.
  — U-T Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2023
• Heading over to Paris, Willy Chavarria’s fall 2025 show was filled with bouffant fros and bold tributes to Chicano beauty.
  — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 25 Jan. 2025
• Flores says that the idea of using an altar as both an act of remembrance and justice is part of what the Chicano community has embraced in Los Angeles.
  — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
• Their collaboration pays homage to Chicano culture, combined with the designer’s signature bold and oversize silhouettes.
  — Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• His image also appears in one of the renowned murals in Chicano Park celebrating local Latino community leaders.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
• First opened in 1970 as a product of the Chicano movement, the Denver school — now shuttered — taught its youth about Latino history and traditions.
  — Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton, The Denver Post, 16 Nov. 2024
• Ontiveros began collecting donations for striking farmworkers and joined the Royal Chicano Air Force artist organization.
  — Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 9 Aug. 2025
• During the conversation, Chavarria shared that Oaxaca was inspired by the huarache, a classic Mexican sandal that has transcended generations and evolved into a staple of Chicano street style.
  — Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• In unveiling the Adidas Originals x Willy Chavarria shoe, the designer said it was inspired by the huarache, a classic Mexican sandal that has transcended generations and evolved into a staple of Chicano street style.
  — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• Chavarria is a Mexican-American designer, who has risen to fame for his designs exploring Chicano, or Mexican-American, culture, often mixing Mexican themes with American products.
  — Dave Smith, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2025
• Her commitment to the Latino community shines as the project director of the Sacramento Movimiento Chicano and Mexican American Education Oral History Project.
  — Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 9 Aug. 2025