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Annotated Bibliography For The Chicano Movement

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Annotated Bibliography for The Chicano Movement The Chicano movement helped improve the lives of all Chicano and Mexican generations in the United states in the way of helping end educational discrimination, Better Job pay, and having basic human rights. I hope to show the positive outcomes of the Chicano Movement and how the lives of Mexican-Americans today were changed. Chicano [chi-kah-noh, -kan-oh] (in North America) a person of Mexican origin or descent. Behnke, Alison. Mexicans in America. Lerner, 2005. “Mexicans in America” by Alison Behnke is a book about the life of Mexicans starting from the A.D. 1200s to 2004. Behnke mentions the Mexican American high school strike also known as the blowout in LA was organized by the Chicano High school students from all around LA asking for improvements such as wanting classes that that taught students about the Mexican heritage and classes that helped prepare Chicano students for jobs. This book is a good source to help answer “How did the Chicano Movement help improve the life of Mexican Americans?” because it talks about the measures Mexicans Americans took to have a better life in the united states. It also mentions many movements that happened within the Chicano civil rights movement. …show more content…

The Chicano Movement in Washington State is an article by Oscar Rosales Castaneda is an article condensing the events and actions involved with Chicano youth from washing state during the movement. Talking about how Mexican American youth was influenced by the Farm workers strike in California in the late 1960’s. this article also mentions how Chicano youth started to use the word Chicano to identify themselves. This article is a great supporter to my thesis because it touches on all the struggle and benefits Chicanos gained from this

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For this book review, I am going to be talking about David Montejano’s book entitled Quixote’s Soldiers, A local history of the Chicano Movement, 1966-1981. The author’s purpose is very well explained and it is not hard to understand. The author clearly tries to explain different ideologies, individuals and organizations located in one of the Southwest’s major cities, San Antonio, Texas, during the late 1960s and early 190s. All these varieties mentioned above made possible that a movement was created called Chicano Movement, a group that David Montejano provides a deeply understanding and description of the movement during the reading of the book. Since, the city was governed by a tough Anglosocial elite that was firmly convinced in the way

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In the documentary “Unrest”, there were various of authors as they all contributed by saying the history of what really happened in the process of making a Chicana/o studies department at San Fernando Valley State College. Also, showed what was happening at the school in the late 1960’s. The documentary showed the founding of The San Fernando Valley State College knows as CSUN today, Chicana/o Studies Department. The San Fernando Valley State College students and faculty made huge sacrifices to fight for the school's administration to teach Chicano studies and for the school to be inclusion. Wanting to bring Latinos and Chicanos to the school by including a Chicana/o studies department in the campus so they can feel like they can fit in.

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And fill the jails with crime” (Gonzalez, 231-233). Gonzales captured the societal expectations of Mexican Americans prior to the East LA walkouts. This justifies that Mexican Americans at that time were not seen as equals by American citizens. After the walkouts, however, Chicanos were finally given equal rights and equal opportunities in the world they live in. The high school dropout rate for Hispanics decreased dramatically, from 60 percent in 1968 to 10 percent in 2016, according to a Los Angeles School Report.

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Luis Miguel Valdez was founder and director of “El Teatro Campesino”, also known as farmworkers’ theatre. “El Teatro Campesino” was found in the 1960’s in California, it merged with the National Farm Workers Association, which was found by Cesar Chavez. “There is no monolithic or essential ‘Chicano experience,’ but the period was a crucial moment in the development of a Chicano consciousness, a consciousness that led to the sociopolitical Chicano Movement, of which Chicano theater was an integral component” (P.24). Valdez recreated his plays for entertainment and to persuade people to join the strike. How did Chicano theater inspire the Chicano movement in the 1960’s?

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Chavez, Chavez speaks about the first migration of Chicano ancestors and the affects the migration had on how Chicanos see themselves. Western Hemisphere is the arrival area for the ancestors of Chicanos and other indigenous Americans. They arrived in the west in small groups they started this journey forty to seventy thousand years ago since human have existed in the old world for millions of year already the discovery of America was actually the finding of the new world. The descendants of the first arrivals spread south from the starting point all the way to South America where they arrived about 11,000 B.C. during this migration countless of groups broke off and went their own way and establish themselves in local area. After taking Mexico City in 1521 the Spanish decided to go north for new lands to conquer and project their own myths onto the unknown region that was to become the southwest.

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The Zoot Suit Riots of 1943 represented a pivotal moment in the evolution of the Chicano experience. They mark a period of immense injustice, prejudice, and racism experienced by Mexican-Americans and had a tremendous impact on the evolution of civil rights in the U.S. As violence began to emerge from the brewing social tensions in Los Angeles, this event galvanized the Chicano civil rights movement and carried its implications to the present day. The riots not only catalyzed an organized resistance movement against systemic discrimination and injustice that lasts today, but they also provided a platform for reclaiming Chicano cultural identity. The film dives deep into the causes of the Zoot Suit riots by exploring the Sleepy Lagoon Case.

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The Chicano movement derives from early oppression of Mexicans. Robert Rodrigo, author of “The Origins and History of the Chicano Movement” acknowledges that, “At the end of the Mexican American war in 1848, Mexico lost half of its territory to the United States and its Mexican residents became ‘strangers in their own lands.’” In stating this fact, Rodrigo exemplifies the United States’ relations with Mexico, that, ultimately, led to their oppression. Moreover, these early relations led to social injustice for the Mexican community. Carlos Muñoz, author of The Chicano Movement: Mexican American History and the Struggle for Equality reports, “As a conquered people, beginning with the Texas-Mexico War of 1836 and the U.S. Mexico War of 1846-48, they have

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One of the first leaders of the chicano movement came out of chicago and was named Oscar Zeta Acosta. Oscar started of by leading a group of independent activists that called themselves the Aztlán in reference the the lands taken by the US from mexico. The brown berets were group that had many chapters across the united states and their goals aligned with the chicano movement agenda of wanting to create better lives for mexican americans. The brown berets were an extremely visible and active organization. The brown berets led lots of marches and protests across the country and often had clashes with law enforcement.

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In summary, Chicanos have been through awful and numerous events in order to fights for their rights. Specifically, these events, the Zoot Suit Riots have been called “the worst mob violence in Los Angeles history”. The Zoot Suit Crowd was just trying to have a good time and were dressing to demonstrate their individuality and to put themselves in a certain status in the community. After, what the Zoot Riots showed the world was how the Zoot culture was perceived by everyone and the tension it provoked by living in a multicultural and multiethnic metropolis like Los Angeles. These riots were not only about freedom, antiracism and segregation, but also to show how youth culture movements were controlled and undertake by the government;

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Injustice and inequality often ignite the sparks of social and political movements. The Chicano (Mexican-American) and Puerto Rican movements of the 1900s provide such examples. Latinos are often considered a homogeneous and involved political subsection or as Beltrán describes a ‘sleeping giant.’ The metaphor describes a sleeping giant who contains much political control through its sheer size but does little with its power. Mexican-Americans and Puerto Ricans have historically proven this metaphor wrong and mobilized in great numbers to affect real change within their respective communities.

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In this source, there are people of Mexican descent born in the United States and they are known as part of the Chicano Culture because it was a popular used by Mexican Americans during the Chicano Movement in the 60s, which was a symbol of pride. The Chicano movement created a political and cultural presence in response to years of oppression and discrimination in Caucasian American society. There are few women involved, and they are mostly men. Based on this source, the perspective mainly demonstrates globalization. The Chicano Movement because, although the Chicano movement happened in the 60s, they want to emphasize that in the modern generation because of all the years they have dealt with discrimination and oppression.

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Throughout the course of history, Mexican Americans have had a burdensome experience in how to identify in the United States. Beginning from the American colonization to the span of our current time period, Mexican Americans had been brutally shun from society and labeled inferior to the white race despite all effort to assimilate into the American ways. Spanning from 1846 to 1848, the Mexican American war resulted in the seizure of Mexican land thus changing the lives of thousands of Mexicans living on those lands. These lands, now American soil, were inhabited by Mexicans and through the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, there inhabitants were granted an option of American citizenship or the movement back to Mexican territory. Through these terms those who stayed to gain the citizenship were to be categorized as legally white yet socially tagged inferior.

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Chicanos held a place during this revolution, they fought to promote the betterment of their educational opportunities and started to contribute to the awareness of the injustices that were bestowed upon the community. Students fought for the ability to attend higher education, ask for higher paying jobs, and demanded that racist teachers be removed and established a curriculum that showed their Chicano culture. The La walk outs called national attention for Chicano rights that encouraged walkout through the south and mid-west. These walk out symbolized more than rebellion, it symbolized community support. Equal opportunities were on every Chicano activist’s agenda and the walk out of 1968 contributed to the betterment of their civil and educational rights.

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Large portions of group’s made up by minorities with a wide range of ethnicities started to arise by help of the civil rights movement from the early 1950’s through the 1990’s. These different type of groups advocated for appropriate education, uniform pay rates, to cease racism, and parallel rights for all citizens. The group of minorities brought attention to their problematic issues by participating in marches, protest and boycotts. For example, during March 1968 in East Los Angeles Chicano students protested for suitable educational facilities, the deficiencies in proper school supplies, and curriculum change to include Chicano history and culture. Another instance on how groups formulated by minorities obtained the public attention for

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I remember my sister telling me about this when I was in high school and I was so surprised that there was a movement of Chicanx. When reading Occupied America, the book mentioned student organizations such as M.E.Ch. A, which is the first

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