etymology of chicano

[Paul Johnston]

During the Falklands War, when i lived in Scotland, my then wife found a recipe for an Argentinian beef stew with sweet potatoes and apricots, which was quite good.  Being a devoutly anti-Maggie Thatcher household (though not in love with Argentinian fascist generals either), we started calling it "Malvinas stew".

Paul Johnston
On Apr 28, 2013, at 3:29 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:

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> On Apr 28, 2013, at 3:20 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard wrote:
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>> During the Falklands War there was "Falklands" vs. "Malvinas." At the time I saw a cartoon which showed two men in a bar. One has turned a bit aggressively to the other, saying (as best I remember):
>> "I call it the Malvinas. Wanna make somethin' of it?"
>> --------Gerald Cohen
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> Does anyone else remember when the Hoover Dam/Boulder Dam changed its name depending on the administration in Washington?  Or I am misremembering (again)?
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> LH
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>> Laurence Horn  wrote, April 28, 2013 10:36 AM:
>> On Apr 28, 2013, at 10:23 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>>>> no name satisfies all the concerned parties
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>>> This has become a common problem as the world becomes more postmodernist
>>> and paranoid at the same time.  For example, whichever you choose -
>>> Kossovo, Kosovo, Kosova - you will annoy or anger someone.
>>>
>>> JL
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>> Or, in the Chicano Studies domain, cf. Hispanic vs. Latino/a.  And then there's American Indian/Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples/...
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>> LH
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>>> On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
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>>>> On Apr 28, 2013, at 6:34 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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>>>>> I assumed the Chicano Studies programs that began sprouting up in the
>>>> 1970s at California universities involved reclamation/reappropriation, as
>>>> in the more or less contemporaneous (or later?) Queer Studies.
>>>>
>>>> the first *courses* on gay and lesbian studies appeared in roughly 1970,
>>>> but university *programs* in gay and lesbian (or lesbian and gay) studies
>>>> didn't come until the late 80s (CUNY in 1986, City College of San Francisco
>>>> in 1989).  many of these programs are still called G&L (or L&G) Studies.  i
>>>> don't know when Queer Studies programs (so called) first appeared, but it
>>>> was probably in the 90s.
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>>>> Ohio State has a Queer Studies program as an area within Gender and
>>>> Sexuality Studies, and Stanford has Queer Studies within Feminist Studies.
>>>> naming these things is hell; no name satisfies all the concerned parties.
>>>>
>>>> arnold
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