Final Flashcards
Genera Pagán
Attempted to vote in 1920 in Puerto Rico - arrested; women suffrage not applied to unincorporated territories
Luisa Capetillo
(1879-1922) Puerto Rican activist; suffragette; feminist and free love advocate; writer and organizer; ensayos libertarios in 1907; women and revolution; repression in 1911
Sara Estela Ramirez
Mexican revolutionary and anarchist; late 1800s; with floran-Magon brothers; not suspicious because woman
Francisco madero
Campaigned against porfirio Diaz in 1910; arrested for sedition; fled to San Antonio, called for revolution in 1911; led revolution in north in 1911 with villa; assassinated by successor Victoriano Huerta
Plan de San Luis Potosí
1910; called for revolution in Mexico; called for general revolt, set revolution in motion
Pancho Villa
Leader of Mexican revolution in chihuahua and north; movie star; killed 17 Americans in 1916; US ally?; legend; pursued by John Pershing in 1917; possible pothead
Treaty of Ciudad Juarez
Ended Mexican revolution in 1911, deposed Diaz
Victoriano Huerta
Assassinated Francisco Madero; succeeded him
Plan De San Diego
1915 called for separate state in borderlands for Mexicans black ppl and Japanese americans; kill all white males over age 16; found on basiliso Ramos jr when arrested; didn’t happen
Carmelita Torres
Instigator of Bath Riots; refused kerosene bath at border in January 1917, arrested - didn’t do anything
1924
Border patrol
1919; 1932; 1936.
Women’s suffrage; literate Puerto Rican women’s suffrage; Puerto Rican women’s suffrage
Bath Riots
1917 at border in response to women photographed without consent and posted at cantina; humiliating and painful kerosene baths; refused baths, riots
Dolores De Rio
Mexican film star; “high Castilian beauty”; classy, ethnic-less, appealing to the yts, Spanish not indigenous, hella famous
Lupe Velez
Mexican actress in Hollywood; portrayed silly garbled clueless fiery Mexican characters; typecast and committed suicide; not classy or respected :(
Carmen Miranda
Brazilian film star and singer; ambassador; banana lady; appropriated Afro Brazilian religious traditions; goofy oversexualized Latina stereotype
Mexico de afuera
Idea that Mexicans living in the US would stay tied to Mexico; govern from abroad; important in 1920s and 1930s
Irredentism
Idea that you’ve been here before, return to same place but it’s a new-old place; familiarity to Mexican migrants to California
Apology Act for the 1930s
California act in 2005 to apologize for forcibly repatriating Mexicans during 1930s depression
Banana wars
US follows UFCO into Central America - wars to sustain economic dominance in the region in interwar period
Augustino Sandino
Democratic rebel in Nicaragua against US economic presence;1912-1933
Anastasio Somoza
Ruled Nicaragua from 1933-1970s; US puppet; repressive rule, beneficial for US economic interests yikes
Gerardo machado
Ruled Cuba: repressive; Cuban migration in 1920s and 1930s
Bonifcio Gonzalez and Dennis Chavez
Ran for office in NM and TX in 1930s emphasizing their americanidad over latinidad
Rita Hayworth
Movie star; Spanish cultural ambassador during 1930s
Emma Tenayuca
Tejana pecan sheller organizer in San Antonio in 1930s; emphasized Americanness of workers; communist; focused on the revolutionary potential of the proletariat and the poor
Antonio machín
El manisero; song that kicked off Latin dance craze in the US, esp salsa and rumba
Good Neighbor Policy
US withdraws unilateral intervention in Latin America in 1930s; good neighbor rather than big stick paternalism; soft power from hard power
Desi Arnaz
Married to Lucille ball, Cuban American, represented Cuban identity in US as white but drawing on indigenous customs and folk lore
LULAC
League of United Latin American Citizens; formed in 1929 in corpus cristi; civil rights organization that tried to get good neighbor policy as leverage for better treatment at home truuuu
J. Luz Saenz
served in WWI; veteran and founder of LULAC; “do not take us for granted”; labor rights for latinxs
Zoot Suit Riots
In LA in 1940s after sleepy lagoon incident in which Mexican found dead; Zoot suiters arrested and held; unfair policing
Bracero program
Guest worker program; import Mexican workers for agricultural work; wartime industry but kept on afterwards; 1942-1964
Mendez v Westminster
1944: precursor to brown v board; Supreme Court case that desegregated California schools for Mexican Americans; based on CA constitution and 14th amendment
Hector B. Garcia and Felix Longoria
American GI forum; longoria killed in battle during WWII; when body returned to the states, cemetery refused to bury it because segregated cemetery; Garcia led campaign for better treatment of latinx veterans who served
Operation bootstrap
1952 status of PR changed to commonwealth
Industrialization and modernization on the island
During the depression; industrialize to stem the flow of migration from the island
Bay of Pigs
1961 failed invasion of Cuba to topple Castro after soviet missiles found on the island
Platt Amendment
1901-1934: allowed US to intervene unilaterally in Cuba; overturned with the implementation of good neighbor policy
US occupation of Cuba
1917-1922