Chicano

In Chicano culture, religion and spirituality significantly impact the way they think and live which will affect the way they write. Chicano Literature expresses the theme of religion and spiritually throughout it all. Religion plays a big part throughout the books. Antonio isn’t judged by the church when he starts hanging around Ultima, whom is known as a witch; there is a positive image of his through the use of the diction and imagery. La Loca is judged by the church and hold an image of evil…

beautiful and vulnerable piece of autoethnography: a mix of introspective, narrative, and academic writing that ties his personal experience to the larger social issue of homophobia in Chicano culture. Garcia defines and narrates his own struggle with the concepts of home, school, and sexuality due to his queer Chicano identity. These written experiences introduce the reader to the process and multi-dimensionality of identity, and reveal deeply entrenched family trauma. Analysis of his story, as…

Writers”, she discusses the agency that comes with writing as well as some of the difficulties that may come with writing for third world women of color. Throughout the Chicano and Puerto Rican movements, writing has proved to be a source of agency and conflict for those involved, particularly women. Both groups of activists, Chicano nationalists and the members of the Young Lords Party, discussed the importance of education reform. The criticisms of education are intersectional with the…

”(americansabor.org/musicians/lalo-guerrero)” The reason he is considered the “Father of Chicano Music” is because no other chicano artist have come close to play as many different genres as Guerrero in history. He produced songs about Cesar Chavez, the braceros, the farm workers, Ruben Salazar and illegal aliens that motivated and inspired his people and made chicano history. He is one of the rare chicano artist that has written songs that have become standards for Mexico. His “Cancion…

have been forcefully silenced but in an ironic twist who worked as a community to represent their race. Chicano art has displayed a rage in society, Identity, unity, racism, social justice, education, sexism and culture. In the exhibit, Beyond the Physical Borders of Aztlan: Chicana and Chicano art as a Palimpsest, one can see all those elements come to play. A group exhibition featuring eight Chicano/a artists by Xavier Viramon, Alma Lopez, Jose Antonio Burciaga, Gloria Anzaldua, Leo Limon,…

History—The Segregation period, and The Vietnam War. Luis Valdez’s demonstration of Los Vendidos reminds me of the Depression and the New Deal Era, which the Mexicans and Mexican Americans(Chicanos) receive this stereotype discrimination from the Anglos. Los Vendidos talks about how the Anglos treated Mexican and Chicanos as robots that could be bought or sold as they wished in this fictional store, “Honest…

subordinated communities were internally oppressed and subjected to racism. When the US conquered part of the northern Mexico in the 19th century, they seized large land to its territory and also incorporated some groups from the Mexico. With time, the Chicano group was among the communities that were considered forgotten and oppressed minority this because they were not accommodated as complete citizens. Luis Morn explores the injustices and inequalities the minority group Latino/as communities…

of the Chicano movement which was a large civil rights movement in the 60s and early 70s. The origin of the word Chicano is unclear, but it has always been slang for the Spanish speaking people in Mexico and Southwestern US. The way I have heard Chicano being used is when someone was being born in the US but would have rather been born in Mexico. I had many friends who identified themselves as that but I never understood it to be honest. Now I guess they identified themselves as Chicanos because…

eight different varieties of language spoken by Chicano/as: standard English, working class and slang Spanish, standard Spanish, standard Mexican Spanish, North Mexican Spanish dialect, Chicano Spanish (primarily used in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California), Tex-Mex, and Pachuco or caló (Anzaldúa 56). Anzaldúa, in fact, uses all of aforementioned languages in Borderlands/La Frontera in an effort to emphasize the diversity of the Latino/Chicano culture. Anzaldúa explains to us that ethnic…

In the excerpt from Borderlands/ La Frontera, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”, Gloria Anzaldúa, conveys the message that language is an individual’s identity as she delves into the circumstances that Chicano Mexicans, who she identifies herself with, are experiencing. The author implements a number of personal experiences to provide a credible, rational, and emotional appeal. This along with the tropes and schemes, anaphora, polysyndeton, metaphor, simile, allegory, allusion, and erotema develop a…