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1. Carey McWilliams, North From Mexico, p. 163.
2. In this article three terms to designate person of Mexican birth or descent are used as follows: (a) "Mexican" refers to people living in Mexico, or Mexican nationals in the United States who have not established lengthy residence. It is also used generally to encompass all three designations which are not readily separable; (b) "Mexican American" refers to persons living for lengthy periods in the United States or their descendants; (c) "Chicano" refers to Mexican Americans from the 1960s on who have assumed this formerly pejorative term and given it a militant political and Indian-oriented connotation (including the use of the word "Aztlàn") as a title of pride and new consciousness. "Chicano" is an ideological rather than a national or ethnic designation. All terms present definitional difficulties since U.S. residents of Mexican descent do not agree among themselves. In the border regions north of the Río Grande River, terms like "Spanish American," and "Hispanic" are used by persons who may call themselves "Mexicano" when not speaking English. All such terms are historically conditioned and responsive to social conditions and concepts like racism and nationalism.
3. Patricia Hills in The Working American points out that historically we can find relatively few paintings of Americans at work. Most work was considered too mundane or vulgar for the "fine arts," or perhaps too subversive for social and political norms. Printmakers, illustrators and photographers (to which we should add caricaturists), on the other hand, had greater freedom because these media were considered "less important" than painting, and therefore have a long tradition of working class images, often radical in content (pp. 15-16).

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