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Brief History And Purpose Of The Chicano Movement

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The Chicano Movement was emerged between 1960 and 1970 during the era of civil justice in America. The purpose of the movement was land restoral, rights of farm workers and improvement in educational policies. Students from US Mexican Federation were the most important part of this movement. Chicano people were suffering with many problems and treated as a minority from years and then they decided to raise their voice for their rights. In 1968, many protests, boycotts and walkouts were arranged for the equal rights of Chicano people. The period of 1960’s, many movements were emerged to raise voice against the civil injustice. Chicano Movement is also one of those movements which has a great impact on later generations. This movement was basically held to raise the voice of Mexican Americans so they can feel pride in their own identity. During the movement, a group of …show more content…

All the actions performed by this group, were according to a treaty written between United States and Mexico in 1848 at the end of Mexico war.
Art works by Chicano people established during 1960’s in Texas and this was an effort to emerge the literary, theatrical and visual arts by Mexican-American. The art work was a presentation of Chicano movement and focused to the socio-political activism and cultural identity. It is also said that this is not just an artwork, but a public forum that focus on the history that is, otherwise, lost, and is unique from the American art (Vargas). Mexico’s indigenous past is suggestive to collect the Chicano art to celebrate the work of Mexican artists and intellectuals. The turn of Mexico’s indigenous past is one of the most

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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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The students were in a system that was racist towards them. Therefore, thousands of Chicano students from 6 different barrio schools walked out of class in protest. Fast forward thirty years from the protest of 1968. No signs of any change had been visible. In fact, just like the blowouts

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During the Chicano Nationalist Movement, a well-known speaker, Rodolfo ‘Corky’ Gonzales, delivered a speech titled Chicano Nationalism: Victory for La Raza. In this speech, Rodolfo Gonzales tries to unify the Latin American people within the United States by using the idea of a family and to create a new political organization for the Chicano people. This speech was a cumulation of various ideas which stemmed from his own life, the experiences of the Chicano people, and the Chicano Nationalist Movement in general. Each of these factors contributed to the context of the speech and how the ideas within the speech are presented by Rodolfo Gonzales.     Rodolfo ‘Corky’ Gonzales was born to Federico and Indalesia Gonzales, two Mexican immigrants, on June 18, 1928.

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In effect of African-Americans fighting for their civil rights, Mexican-Americans formed La Raza Unida when they saw that, “even the most disillusioned Mexican-American begin to dream large dreams again” (372). The civil rights movement for African-Americans helped opened the eyes of Mexican-Americans, and they soon realized that there was a disadvantaged minority. At this time period, they faced “the same level economically, but substantially below educationally” compared to African-Americans (372). “Mexican-Americans is not too much better off than the Negro” (372). After world war two, many Mexican-Americans wanted to be acknowledged for their sacrifice for serving their country.

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The Mexican American War started in 1846 because of Mexican resentment caused by the 1836 loss of Texas and the American’s desire for Mexico’s more northern territory. “On September 9, 1847 after two years of fighting, the Mexican American war essentially ended when the American Army captured Mexico City after the Battle of Chapultepec”( 6). The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war. United States leaders then acted morally superior in their negotiations of the treaty 1. During negotiations, United States officials viewed the “forcible incorporations” (1) of almost one half of Mexico’s land as an “event foreordained by providence and Manifest Destiny” (1).

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During the 1960s and early 1970s, the Chicano Movement embraced El Día de los Muertos as a way to reconnect with pre-Hispanic and Mexican

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The walkouts became widely known as the first Chicano Movement which was specifically for equality in education (education reform). This movement was important to the students since their needs were not being reached. The students also wanted immediate change since they were not getting proper guidance, or any guidance at all, from their counselors on the pathway to college and being successful. Instead, teachers and administrators were giving the students prejudice and stereotype what their future would be depending on their ethnicity. Teachers and administrators believed Mexican American students did not need the guidance since they would say the students would follow in their family’s footsteps and become a high school dropout and work as a mechanic, farm worker, or join the army.

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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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The high issues were the labor rights for the farm workers. They work in any type of weather outside, hot sunny days to temperatures up to 100, even freezing cold days with temperatures down to negative. Farmworkers go through any condition still do not get enough pay. They are the ones feeding all Americans across America. Finally, the Chicano movement has granted many reforms as they demand, having bilingual programs, improving the working conditions, even hiring Chicano teachers (Carrillo).

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