During the 1960s, the Civil Rights movement was making its mark on the Unites States history. The Civil Rights movement was not just one single movement it included the feminist movement, gay/lesbian movement, the disability movement, and the Chicano/a movement. Activists wanted change and equality for its people. For example, the feminist movement wanted to be able to divorce and work a job. It was a time for change throughout the United States. Overall, people wanted to gain some sort of right from these movements.
Structured Inequality/Rationale:
The Chicano/a generation that rose between 1950-1970 wanted to have their own culture, they did not want to be known as “Mexican-Americans.” The Chicano/a movement wanted to achieve “justice and equality for their group” (Gutierrez, 2011). According to Gunckel (2015), the movement gained
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The struggles that the Chicano/a community faced included low pay wages for field pickers, harsh work conditions, and students were treated as a failure by teachers. The jobs that Chicanos would work in mentioned by Rico (2009) included “mining, crop irrigation, and the garment industries. Rico (2009) also mentions that those jobs were where Chicanos suffered discrimination and were paid a small amount of money. On the other hand, Chicano students were treated as a failure by teachers because they had low statistical academic backgrounds (Gutierrez, 2011). In the Walkout movie by Esparza and Katz (2006), the students protested and walked out of their classrooms because university and college recruiters including the students’ own teachers were not guiding them to college or universities because they were Chicanos; instead, the