Causes Of Racism: The Chicano Movement

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Since the dawn of history, race has always separated people, creating an invisible border between races. With the idea of a race well establish everyone could now be classified and oppressed. Race is social construct mainly to oppress those who do not have a perspective on society. One of the oppressed groups in history is the Chicano community, who dealt with the tyrannical ideologies of racism. The Chicano movement used their struggle and faith to create motivation to combat racism. This motivation led to the use of art, culture, and education to create an objective to destroy the ideologies of racism.

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