Chicano Movement

Hannah Swenson Mrs. Brown Advanced 11th Grade Lit 15 Dec 2016 Gary Soto Gary Soto is a Mexican American writer and poet born in Fresno, California whose literary works reflect the struggles and imperfections of the Chicano people. “His poems depict the violence of urban life, the exhausting labor of rural life, and the futility of trying to recapture the innocence of childhood.” says Tracey L. Matthews. Soto creates fictional Hispanic characters who often face the problems and difficulties…

HOUSE ON MANGO STREET While reading “The house on mango street”, everything in the book seemed to get progressively became contorted for the innocent girl named Esperanza. In the beginning of the story the Family had moved a couple of times prior to the last and having to move again having more complications with broken water pipes, and the landlord refusing to fix them leaving them no other choice but to advance to the next home. Esperanza describes her name as being an awful name with too…

supposed to integrate into the American mainstream. Do you believe Chicano performance of traditional Mexican music and Chicano Rock can be perceived as reactions to the “liberal agenda”? Explain why or why not. Also, make sure to provide a detailed description of what the “liberal agenda” entails as well as the musical genres discussed in class as supporting detail in your answer. (25 points) The music of Mexican music and Chicano rock gives the voice to the hispanic culture and shows what…

Anaya Rudulfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima is about a young protagonist, Antonio and his coming-of-age. The story is also about Ultima, a curandera, who helps Antonio mature by guiding, mentoring and protecting him. The novel succeeds in reflecting Chicano culture of the 1940s in the rural parts of New Mexico, “Guadalupe”. Anaya uses myths, cultural motifs s and curandera customs like the gathering and use of medicinal herbs to show the readers how indigenous cultural traditions can influence…

Los Vendidos The play written by Luis Valdez, Los Vendidos, an interpretation of how American people see Mexican Americans is played through a drama. A secretary from Governor Reagan, Miss Jimenez, comes to a shop in hopes of finding a Mexican to bring to a gathering to create diversity in the crowd. The “shop” owner, Honest Sancho, is a business man trying to sell these Mexican Americans. Miss Jimenez is looking for a Mexican who is perfect. While Sancho is trying to help find the perfect…

treated the Indians and how they tried to “civilize” the “savage Indians” and the struggle the Indians faced trying to stop this horrible act. In Gringos, Greasers and the Southwest: Evolving Chicano Identity on the Border Region, 1850-1930 by Michael R. Ornelas. He speaks about what affected the way Chicano saw themselves as what impacted their outlook of themselves and how that form the generation to come and their identity. The missions in California were really bad place to bed especially…

California State University at Fresno (1974), received a master of fine arts degree in creative writing from the University of California at Irvine (1976), and has taught at the University of California at Berkeley in the Department of English and Chicano Studies. He has also been Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside. Soto married Carolyn Oda,…

Chicanos also feared disapproval from the Latinos because their Spanish was imperfect. In addition, Anzaldua highlights the issue for women in the Chicano society. In her culture, many words were considered derogatory if applied to women. She mentions Chicanas bare robbed of their female being by the masculine plural. She was…

Book Review Beyond Machismo: Intersectional Latino Masculinities. By Aida Hurtado and Mrinal Sinha. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016, 272 pp., $29.95 (paper) Aida Hurtado and Mrinal Sinha’s Beyond Machismo: Intersectional Latino Masculinities finds itself entering in the midst of some very busy noisy conversations regarding Masculinities. As the recently-concluded 2016 Presidential Election has revealed, what it means to be Men in the United States (if not the West/Global North)…

message. Chicanas uses these tools to aware the public about issues they face and how hard it is to be a Chicana in two distinct cultures. Many Chicana struggles with their identity and they communicate through art and literature. Individuals in the Chicano/a community face isolation when dealing with Mexican and dominant culture. In my interpretation of what the dominant culture is it’s the American culture. Both cultures have different believe system and it is hard for the Chicana…