Partido Nacional de La Raza Unida (National United People's Party) is an American

United States

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 political party centered on Chicano

Chicano

The terms "Chicano" and "Chicana" are used in reference to U.S. citizens of Mexican descent. However, those terms have a wide range of meanings in various parts of the world. The term began to be widely used during the Chicano Movement, mainly among Mexican Americans, especially in the movement's...

 interests. The party was termed La Raza in reference to the Mestizo people. During the 1970s the Party campaigned for better housing, work, and educational opportunities for Mexican-Americans. The political ideology which gave birth to La Raza Unida Party, and which sustains it, is that of nationalism - in its fullest, most progressive, and democratic form, not in the limited, narrow sense of bourgeois nationalism.