Chicano

This being the second RPQ here we will discuss the fundamental topics media has put out for the Latino/ Chicano community. From newspaper articles to how magazines and zines are different in contributing to the community. Throughout the articles we read in class we see how truly affected the community. Also how consumerism is affecting the lives of many Chicanos. Newspapers were very common in the Mexican community at one point and showed many topics/propaganda that informed many Mexicans. An…

The three readings for this week really contextualized the start of the Chicano Movement as they presented community organizing, history, and emotions of the Chicano people at that time. The first reading, “El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan,” outlined a plan for Chicanos to unite under La Raza and take back their identity. It creates a structure for liberation and outlines goals under the concept of nationalism in order to bring the people back to their roots as a people who have not been under the…

point that Chicanos are not the general working class Mexican American, but instead of variation of identities. The poem starts at the beginning with the depiction of the indigenous people and their prosperity, which was shortly halted after the conquistadores colonized what is known as Latin American and work their way up into the Americas. With the colonization of the Americas, the Mestizos were born. The Mestizos were the initiation of a new group who progressively evolved into Chicanos as…

In the Chicano community, children are an integral part of how the community can be developed due to the fact that they’re still learning things while young. For this reason, works created by Chicanos are especially important because children and young people can see themselves in the different modes of media. A book that helps this endeavor is Loteria by Mario Alberto Zambrano, where a young girl tells the story of her family’s demise using a deck of loteria cards. This book can be considered…

interests of their community. Authors that have discussed the idea of collective action and culture have distinct arguments that produce both strengths and weaknesses. In “Chicano Struggles for Racial Justice: the Movement’s Contribution to Social Theory”, the author, Ramon Gutierrez claims that collective action of both Chicanos and African Americans contributed to the study of social theory, including the internal colonialism theory. Such theory centers itself on the dominance that the…

of Chicano Mexicans including herself. She implements a number of personal experiences to provide a credible, rational, and emotional appeal. Background information is also included for credibility as well as quotes from other people to contribute to the passage. This along with the tropes and schemes anaphora, polysyndeton, metaphor, simile, allegory, alliteration, and erotema develop a powerful message. Under the oppression of the dominant cultures of the United States and Mexico, Chicanos…

influential activist who is most well known as a member of the Brown Berets. The Brown Berets were an organization that protected Chicanos/as rights and the general impoverished population of East Los Angeles against police brutality, the Vietnam War and the inequality of education. Carlos Montes was a target for the Los Angeles Police Department during the Chicano Movement in the 1960s. The primary source we have chosen is a court case declaration of Carlos Montes in May 1, 1979 against…

fear America. America is a dominant force to be reckoned with or else you be castrated, much like Anzaldúa’s experience in being forced to lose her Mexican accent. Anzaldúa’s strong will and finding of her home linguistically, Chicano Spanish protects her and other Chicanos from the overbearing nature of America. Anzaldúa urges to accept your self both culturally and linguistically, especially in the face of opposition, comparable to the strength of the plants in Kahlo’s painting that are being…

nation’s education system today persists us to reminisce upon a time in our country where changes in our inner city schools happened after minority voices were heard. On March 1968, after having enough of their inadequate school environments, the young Chicanos of East LA organized a mass high school walkout. These individuals were revolutionaries during a time their voices were ignored; they were forced to remain victims of a discriminatory school system unashamed in perpetuating racial biases…

Anzaldúa maintains the strong belief that Chicano people are, as expected, harsh on themselves due to their strict and forbidden upbringing and they will likely continue their refusal to conform to a particular set of biased guidelines—having been attributed to them by a cultural oppression—not through revolution but by communicating and connecting to the modern world around them. Throughout the essay, Anzaldúa shows her strong abilities to preserve her Chicano heritage that flows with grace…