Chicano

She soon enlists the support of their families as well. By acting as the voice for her community, she was able to have them rally behind her and call for change together. By bringing her community together, the Chicano voice was finally heard and the schools slowly began to change. In the end of the film, Paula realized that she was able to focus on her academics, while also being an activist. In Almost a Woman, Santiago is faced with the choice of holding on to…

Obesity is a recurring problem in America, as this illness has affected many Americans, especially those in the Chicano community. Obesity is when a person is carrying too much body fat for their height and sex. A person is considered obese if they have a body mass index of thirty or greater. Obesity is a key risk factor in the development of many chronic diseases such as heart and respiratory diseases, type two diabetes, hypertension, various types of cancer, and death. With the increase in…

“How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” a chapter from her book, Borderland/La Frontera. Anzaldúa realizes American territory creates an environment full of insecurities. She is trying to escape the ideas of oppression through her own language as she uses Chicano Spanish throughout the text. Language allows one another to communicate using a secret language. Language progresses culture by passing down ideas and experiences to future generations. Through the power of language, one can understand and learn a…

place black people and Chicano/a stereotyped into a diaspora, a bubble where all blacks and/or Chicanos are place. Not all people of color have the same mentality as others. Some strive for a better future, some think about what they can do in their life. However, blacks are always limited from greatness because of their color of their body. They are taken as a lower class who do the same crime and play the same role. On the other hand, many public school teachers see Chicano/a and black…

I dreaded giving self introductions when I was little. Then, I had no clue what to introduce other than my name and age. As I mature, I began to perceive myself as a person and I started to understand how important my identity is to myself as well as the people I interact with. In a simple analogy, one’s identity can be seen as a Lego toy. When put together, Lego pieces can become a car, a movie character, or even a famous architecture. However, a Lego piece by itself has little meaning. It is…

omniscient narrator because El Pachuco knows everything that is going on and almost as if he controls the play and which direction the action goes and an iconic symbol to the audience he is the embodiment of the zoot suit the secret fantasy of every Chicano male youth. Emphasizing…

In “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” Gloria Anzaldúa tells us that Chicanos are being increasingly discriminated against because so many Americans are trying to force Chicanos into being “American” instead of letting the Chicano culture thrive. Gloria supports this claim by providing many first hand experiences of being discriminated against, such as having to take two speech classes while in University because the school wanted “to get rid of [her] accent.” An article on health.usnews.com was…

feel an intense pressure to come up a decision. Moreover, that decision is pertaining to family and the cultural values within. When being a Chicano you face obstacles like no other person because you live in the middle of two different cultures. Throughout the novel “Bless me, Ultima” the main focus is moral independence. The novel is important in Chicano literature because it combines both American and Mexican cultures into one whole. In the novel Bless me Ultima, Antonio the major…

Antonio begins viewing the issues from his own point of view, not by basing his beliefs off of anyone else’s. Due to the Chicano culture, Antonio now starts having a deeper meaning of the reality of life and death, as he witnessed Lupito’s death and “ the emphasis on familism is such that it includes not only the immediate family and extended relatives but fictive relations”…

How can someone be so accomplished and yet maintain humility? To look at their hard work and always see room for improvement? Professor Carlos Nicolas Flores has had a prosperous career, and as a result, he has been published numerous times. His most recent work has received excellent literary reviews, and Flores was even asked to undergo interviews to discuss it and what inspired him to complete it. This novel, a product of some of the authors life experiences and imagination, provided me with…