...The Chicano Movement began during the civil rights era with three goals, which are, rights for farm workers, restoration of land, and education reforms. Latinos lacked influence in the national political arena before the 1960s. That changed when John F. Kennedy was elected president in 1960, this established Latinos as a significant voting bloc. After Kennedy was sworn into office, he appointed Hispanics to posts in his administration but he also considered the concerns of the Hispanic community. Mexican Americans began demanding that reforms be made in labor, education, and other sectors to meet their needs. Chicano radicals began demanding that the land is given to Mexican Americans during the civil rights era. They believed that it constituted...
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...Chicano Culture in LA “Chicano” is the culiminitive expression of social, political, and ethnic identity that derived from Latin American identity in the mid 1900’s. This movement thrived in places with higher concentrations of latin american people, and created a sense of pride that spread throughout the nation to create a form of self expression and identity for latin-american individuals that didn’t quite fit in to society. The original mindset was that they were too brown to be American, and too white to be Latino. According to (>>>)“Socially, the Chicano Movement addressed negative ethnic stereotypes of Mexicans in mass media and the American consciousness.” Essentially, they didn’t fit in to existing cultures; latin american people faced alienation from both the American culture they were born into, and the ethnic culture they descended from. This originated in the 1910 demand for labor in the U.S in the midwest-- “Mexicans began to migrate in large numbers after the Mexican Revolution in 1910, attracted to a demand for labor, especially in the midwest. They entered at a time where U.S residents were likely to be suspicious of immigrants.”(Donato, 1994)...
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...According to “The Development of Chicana Feminist Discourse” by Alma M. Garcia, a short story writer and professor of sociology at Santa Clara University in California, she critiques feminism by addressing white feminist organizations are being racist for their actions in dealing with Chicanas and other women of color. She also explains how African Americans. Asian Americans, and Chicanas experience intersectional failure such as stereotypes and due to that white feminist discriminate women of color. Chicana feminist have to deal with limited opportunities of higher education, increase of high school dropouts, decline of health care, immigration and prison reform acts and welfare due to poverty engaging in their reason for protest. The protest...
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...Social Movements and Trends His/145 May 29 2012 In the rare occasions when the U.S looks at unions, the media tends to view social movements as the creation of strong leaders. The view of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers is one of the most evident events of all. Cesar Chavez the famous activist would have been 85 years old today. After his death in 1993 an abundance of coverage assumed that the Unite Farm Workers would not survive the tragedy. The Chicano movement began during the Civil Rights era with three main goals which included the restoration of land, rights for farm workers and developments in education. Prior to the 1960’s Latinos had no influence when it came to the national political arena. There was a complete turnaround in the 1960’s when the Mexican American Political Association worked to elect President John F. Kennedy, creating Latinos as a significant voting alliance. After Kennedy won the election he showed his appreciation towards the Latino community by assigning Hispanics to posts in his administration and he also took in consideration the concerns of the Hispanic community. Latinos, mainly Mexican Americans began demanding and were very persisting towards the reforms made in labor and education to meet their needs. Under the leadership of Cesar Chavez, the Chicano movement in the 1960's used economic pressure rather than violence to pursue civil rights for Mexican-Americans. The fight during the 1960’s to secure unionization for farm workers...
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...Chicano Movement In the United States of America Latinos/as were treated unequally, because of so much segregation, Latinos/as decided to stand together and created a movement which would help the to let others hear their voice. Chicano Movement was established in 1960’s, it was also called Chicano Civil Rights Movement; it helped Latinos/as to speak up and protest, because they were not treated equally as the rest of the USA citizens. Which brings the questions such as what were the aims of the Chicano Movement? To what extent were they achieved? How did they affect Latinos/as Lives during the Civil Right era? To what extent does their legacy...
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...“Queer Aztlan” by Cherrie Moraga and “Mapping the Margins” by Kimberle Crenshaw, reveal not only how multiple categories of identity impact women of color, but also the ways in which social movements fail to acknowledge and understand their experiences. By illuminating the establishment of Queer Aztlan in the Chicano queer community and the exclusion of violence against women of color in anti-racist and feminist discourse, Moraga and Crenshaw distinctly address the marginalization of women of color. Of course, Moraga specifically points out how Chicano Nationalism and the Gay and Lesbian Movement pose limitations to most gay and lesbian Chicanos. Moraga moves the process of Queer Aztlan forward in order to form a space that encompasses an inclusive...
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...Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales As I researched for an Individual that was involved in a social movement, I wanted to find someone interesting that I had no knowledge of. I came across a very talented gentleman by the name of Rodolfo Gonzales known as “Corky”. Why Corky? His uncle said that he had a very firing personality and “he was always popping off like a cork” So the name “Corky” stuck to him. Mr. Gonzales was born in 1928 married Geraldine Romero in 1949 and had eight children together. Mr. Gonzales was a Poet, Boxer, Chicano political and civil rights activist. He was a leader in the movement for fairness and equality for Mexican-Americans in the Southwest. His home was in Denver, Colorado where he was born. He was the son of migrant sugar...
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...identify themselves as Chicanos, and the Chicano Movement. All rights that Mexican-Americans have are owed to those Chicanos of the 60s and the policies they advocated for. Those fights were about much more than education, they fought for racial rights, class rights, feminism, and immigrant oppression. Many people still remain uneducated on just how much the Chicano movement played a part in today's society since it is often overshadowed by the Civil rights and Vietnam war protests. The results of the Chicano movement are seen everywhere, Mexicans now have a clinical role in media,...
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...From the roads in Texas to the urban life in Los Angeles the Chicano movement can be seen. El Movimiento most commonly known as the Chicano Movement had originally started in the late 1840s, shortly after the U.S-Mexican war, but didn’t fully kick-off till the 1960s. The Chicano Movement had various leaders the most commonly known being César Chávez, Dr. Hector P. Garcia, and Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzáles. It was also followed by Student and youth organizations from California to Texas. Another major part of this movement was Chicano art that was nourished by their pride in their culture and heritage. Although the Chicano Movement was mostly centered toward the Mexican-American community the ideas they were striving for, broke ethnic boundaries. Cesar Chavez is best known for being a Latin-American civil rights activist. Chavez started his activism in 1952 when he became an organizer for the Community Service Organization (CSO), he traveled throughout California giving speeches in which supported worker’s rights and encouraged Mexican-Americans to register and vote. When he left CSO he co-founded what is now known as UFW. He along with Dolores Huerta co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), later changed to United Farm Workers (UFW), in 1962. The NFWA first boycott...
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...Mexican-Americans dealt with the inequality, until the 1960’s when they decided that there had to be an end to all the discrimination that Mexicans faced, and started what is now known as the Chicano Movement. The Chicano Movement had a huge impact on not only Chicanos, but also on the nation. A) During the 60’s there were several civil rights movements that took place, and according to Rodolfo F. Acuna “the bases of social movements were inequality, and a moral outrage at the lack of fairness in the system” (Acuna 287), and this is what the Chicano Movement was. In order to understand the Chicano Movement, it must be defined; in short, the Chicano Movement was part of the Civil Rights movement during the 60’s whose goal was to get better education, voting rights, equal wages, and restoration of land grants; as it had originally been agreed to in the Treaty of Hidalgo. The word “Chicano” used to be considered a bad word, a word used to describe the Mexican-Americans, whose parents were immigrants. It wasn’t until the 1960’s that the word “Chicano” became more politically correct (definition handout). The history of the Chicano Movement is very important, and is part of the reason why current generation Mexicans have the freedom they do today. According to Acuna, during the sixties the Chicano...
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...during the socially and politically charged Chicano Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s through 1980s. The Chicano Civil Rights Movement was a movement of Mexican-Americans that wanted to uphold their bi-cultural identity as both Mexican and American, and increase their rights. In addition, it upheld the existence of indigenous Mexican traditions, and challenged Anglo-assimilation. Chicanos worked to create their own nationalist schemes as a group, and define their own histories and origins. Nonetheless, the movement covered everything from labor conditions to political representation to immigration rights. Thus, Mesa-Bains described her own childhood as one full...
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...The Personal is Still the Political “Anything you can do I can do better; I can do anything better than you” (Berlin). These iconic lyrics were part of a cheerful duet in a 1940’s Broadway musical making jest that a woman could compete against a man in various tasks such as singing and archery. Little did society know that women truly believed that this was the case, and it was an idea worth fighting for. Over the course of the twentieth-century, women have fought and protested for equality among men in a male-dominate society. Women have rallied under one of the best known slogans of the movement the “personal is political”, the concept that the personal (private) life should be addressed equally with the public (political) life that had yet to integrate women into its realm. “the personal is political refers to the private life or “realm” of women having anything to do with marriage, children or household roles and the public realm of men having anything to do with business, politics, art, or sports. Renowed poet and writer Gloria Anzaldua has her own interpretation of what the “personal is political” means and what she was challenging specifically when she argued using her own experiences such as the loss of culture through the loss of language, and sexism in language as a starting point. “The personal is political” played a very significant role in helping shape the women’s rights movement from its roots all the way to its end in the 1960’s with the advent of the Civil...
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...Whatsoever is the origin of the world the Mexican American’s have used the word Chicano to define the individual from the Mexican region who are living in the United States since the beginning of the 19th century. These Mexican Americans are considered as a lower grade population of the society. However, the things that split up the Chicano art from the mainstream art of that time is the color of the artist made in the white art world for example Bryn Kim or Lupe Vélez (Goodwins) is that the artist from Chicano were not willing to be a part of this mainstream art of the world. Giving a look on the history we can say that this art form was based on the form of protest that was highly linked with social politics. Basically, Chicano art was something...
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...The Chicano Mural Movement of the 1960s and 1970s was a movement much about claiming political, social and visual space as it was about making historical claims to peoplehood. Just like New York Cities transformation, the Latino communities of the Southwest, Texas, and California began so many painted murals to protest. This section will give me a way to show how this street art really gave a sense of being a part of community that was out of the social normative of what it is to be American. It wasn’t just the Chicano movements that played rolls in protest, many social movements played its rolls in getting there purpose across like the secret organization on campus in the...
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...Ana Perez Cortes ID 170 4:00-5:15 Chicana Liberation Through Art Art has been a crucial element in the Chicana feminist movement. There were many Chicana artist such as Yolanda Lopez, Alma Lopez, and Ester Hernandez. Among the artist there were many different styles used but they all had the same objective which was to fight against the gender stereotypes that they suffered in the Chicano Movement as well as the discrimination the received in society. This could be seen in the art they created such as the radical interpretations of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Intersectionality was also important in their paintings since they both received discrimination for their race and their gender both in the movement and outside the movement. The...
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