Political Protests: The Chicano Movement

Political protests are a way to demonstrate disagreement caused by oppression, discrimination, or the simple fact of being different, and feeling threatened by society. Equality is an important value that everyone would like to acquire. Unfortunately this value of equality is not always applied to all. Political protest causes a radical change in the society. One of the most important protest that influenced the American society in the United States was the Chicano Movement. The Chicano Movement emergence from the Mexican-Americans pride of their own identity. Their purpose was to fight for equality, and eliminate the Anti-Mexican Racism. The Chicano Movement was formed by young students with a large voice that wanted to end with segregation, therefore they created groups and alliances to obtain their goal. However to obtain their purpose Mexican-Americans faced some struggles in order to gain Americanization. The chicano Movement created a big impact on Latinos and Americans. …show more content…
This group of people assigned a specific name to identify their ethnicity. ‘Chicanos’ was the term they assigned to themselves, which it has the same definition as ‘Mexican-Americans’. George Sanchez explains that the culture concepts between Mexicans and Mexican-Americans was a problem since there was not an agreement between these groups. Mexicans had their Mexican culture and Americans had their own culture as well. However there existed two cultural poles: ‘Mexicano’ which is was considered as the Old World ethnic and the other culture was the ‘Anglo United States’(Sanchez 5). Chicano stood as a subculture between these two cultures. Identity played a big role in Chicano’s mind because they did not know how to identify themselves, therefore they wanted to fight and gain