Ramón “Chunky” Sánchez

“By the time I was in the second grade, everyone was calling me Raymond.”

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Ramón "Chunky" Sanchez remembers how teachers changed the names of Mexican-American students during the 1950s.

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Ramón “Chunky” Sánchez

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San Diego, California, CA, Southern Californians, Mexico, Mexicans, Mexican-Americans, names, naming, immigration, culture, cultural identity, ethnicity, ethnicities, schools, teachers, students, Hispanics, Latinos, immigrants, Americanization, Americanizing, identity, schooling, cultural literacy, school memories, administrators

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