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Summary Of What Is It The Chicano Want By Ruben Marquez

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In the reading, “Who Is a Chicano? And What Is It the Chicanos Want?” by Ruben Salazar we learn that during the era of the Chicano Movement, we see how this specific era has been an influence on ethnic labels and identity of the Chicanos. To begin with during this era a lot of people didn’t know what Chicano meant or who a Chicano was. Ruben Salazar mentions, “A Chicano is a Mexican-American with a non-Anglo image of himself” which means that they pertain and identify to belong to this group because they are nothing like the Anglos, the Anglos where the White Americans (Salazar, 1970). The Anglos would talk down on the Chicanos, they would label them as less. For example, Salazar mentions in the reading, “Chicanos resent also Anglos pronouncements
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