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Tio Taco
noun
a Mexican-American who curries favour with the dominant white culture US
Literally “Uncle Taco”, referring to a Mexican dish made with a fried corn tortilla.- We want her replaced with a Third World person who is absolutely responsible to Third World and poor students, not to House Nigger, Uncle Tom,Tio Taco, or a Charlie Chan. — House Committee on Education and Labor, Campus Unrest, p. 15, 1969
- Literally, “Uncle Taco,” the Mexican-American equivalent of an Uncle Tom. — Time, p. 18, 4 July 1969
- “All middle-class Mexicans – Tio Tacos.” — Frank Bonham, Viva Chicano, p. 96, 1970
- — Eugene Landy, The Underground Dictionary, p. 185, 1971
- Tio Taco – A Mexican-American “Uncle Tom” as determined by the contemporary youth movement of Chicanos. — Librado Keno Vasquez, Regional Dictionary of Chicano Slang, p. 75, 1975
- This goes for all you mellow chicanos out there too, who whitey likes to display as a grinning Tio Taco on TV and in the movies. — Donald Goines, Black Gangster, p. 95, 1977
- But the split this time was not between the young militants and the old Tio Tacos. — Hunter S. Thompson, The Great Shark Hunt, p. 149, 1979
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