Chicano

As human beings, it is our nature to group and label different items in our world. But how does one describe themselves? Our self-identity, in my opinion, makes us feel like someone. Self-identity includes our race, language, sexual orientation, culture, and many other attributes of ourselves including visual components such as body type. But according to Michael Hogg and Scott Reid, categorizing people holds them accountable to other similar groups and depersonalizes an individual person.…

Throughout the whole movie Jes tries to hide who he really his from everyone except his boyfriend. There is a lot of pressure of having to be macho, especially since his father is the toughest Chicano in the community. If men are homosexual in that kind of Latino community then they are considered to not be a real man and are weak. Everyone in the community accepted him and liked him a lot when he was hiding the fact that he was gay, then when…

Chicanos, the second or third generation descended from the original Latino immigrants, appear to display the most disillusionment with the seemingly inescapable economic hardship of their people. To succeed economically means the forced conformation to non-Chicano ways at the loss of their own culture, and even then they are not guaranteed success. Although they do not represent the…

Ricardo Falcon was a college student and was considered a leader by many Chicano activist leaders. Stan Perea an executive director of the Association for Hispanic Theological Education said “Falcon was a visionary who dared to denounce racism in the United States and slammed it as something odious, sinful and damaging to the…

History is just a compilation of several compelling stories of the past put together. I love that I am able to learn intriguing and true stories about places, people, and events that I have never seen physically or experienced personally. History is very interactive and requires creative and attentive thinking to connect why and how occurrences took place the way they did. For instance, I did not fully understand why the Americans revolutionized against the British until I viewed their struggle…

If I was the instructor and I could only assign one of these films to my students, I would choose Diego Luna’s 2014 film “Cesar Chavez.” I chose this film because Mexican American Civil Rights are underrated. It is a very important part in history that most instructors tend not to express as much or even skip the chapter. In high school, I remember learning about the Renaissance Era, Civil War, WWI and WWII, Cold War, African American Civil Rights, slavery, even wars in other countries that…

Mexican origin people have interlocked with the beginnings of the United States since the Anglo-saxon’s era of Westward Expansion. This little known fact has affected and continues to affect the identities of these people. Within the Great Depression, the identity of Mexican origin people was categorized as part of the Mexican race and then later, with continuing changes in politics in the World War II time period, their identification as part of the Mexican race shifted to that of the white…

feeling but is provides us with a beautiful presentation, something Modesto hasn't provided us in a while. The Mexican style building was built two years ago, my first time seeing it all I could think was how great of a representation it had of the Chicano, and Mexican community it had. The first thing to notice is the huge Mayan basted mural on the side of the building. This mural is filled with beautiful clay based colors while remaining classy and inviting. As you walk towards the entrance…

in a different country. Anzaldua lives between two cultures. At school, Anzaldua’s teachers expects from her to speaks clear English and forget about Spanish in order to be accepted in the American society. However Anzaldua grows with her Spanish Chicano culture, which also required from her to forget English in order to be accepted. Anzaldua writes:“ If you want to be American, speak ‘American’. If you don’t like it, go back to Mexico where you belong.”(Anzaldua 167). Anzaldua feels pressure…

the individual student and the community as a whole. It’s appropriate to teach the students of Arizona about their culture and heritage and it’s statically proven to be academically successful as well. Not only do Mexican American studies benefit chicano students to learn about their own history, but it can also be beneficial to their peers as well. Dr. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education said, “While students of color must…