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Blanqueamiento in Spanish, or branqueamento in Portuguese (both meaning whitening), is a social, political, and economic practice used in many post-colonial countries in the Americas and Oceania to "improve the race" (mejorar la raza) [1] towards a supposed ideal of whiteness. [2]
The tables below show how the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Old English pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
Examples are the words para, madre, and padre ("for", "mother", and "father"): Puerto Ricans may pronounce para as /pa/, madre as /mai/, and padre as /pai/. You will also hear the words comadre and compadre (female and male friend, respectively) pronounced and spelled as comay and compay .
A pronunciation respelling for English is a notation used to convey the pronunciation of words in the English language, which do not have a phonemic orthography (i.e. the spelling does not reliably indicate pronunciation).
The Diccionario de la lengua española [a] (DLE; [b] English: Dictionary of the Spanish language) is the authoritative dictionary of the Spanish language. [1] It is produced, edited, and published by the Royal Spanish Academy , with the participation of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language .
UnidosUS, formerly National Council of La Raza (NCLR) , [2] is the United States's largest Latino nonprofit advocacy organization. It advocates in favor of progressive public policy changes including immigration reform , a path to citizenship for migrants , and reduced deportations.
In addressing an appropriations subcommittee of the United States House of Representatives in the days after the 1992 Los Angeles riots, A. B. Spellman representing the National Endowment for the Arts asserted that the unrest was less severe on the east side of the city because Plaza de la Raza and similar institutions held the community ...
"La Raza" is a song by American rapper Kid Frost. It was released in 1990 as the lead single from his debut studio album Hispanic Causing Panic . " La Raza " is Spanish for "the race" or more symbolically "the people" as metonymy; it samples El Chicano 's "Viva Tirado" from 1970 (a cover of the famous Gerald Wilson jazz composition).