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noun
- la. (sometimes initial capital letters) Mexican Spanish. la raza.
noun (sometimes initial capital letters) Spanish.
- (used with a plural verb) Mexican Americans collectively.
- (used with a singular verb) Mexican-American culture.
in La Raza, literally “the race,” 1964, from American Spanish (see race (n.2)), “designating the strong sense of racial and cultural identity held by Mexican-Americans” [OED].