Chicano

A strong woman is that who does not care what the world things of her, but one that fights for her loved ones for a better a greater future, and Dolores Huerta is certainly a Chicana Chingona who has become an inspiration to many women around the country to rise up and fight for their rights. Dolores Huerta has become an influential union leader and an activist for the rights of farm workers and women whose voice has not been heard for many years (doloreshuerta.org). Dolores Huerta with the help…

(249). Antonio realizes that the strength that he has in him can withstand the struggles of life. While growing to become a man, Antonio deals with copious catholic allusions from Mexican folklore. Both the family religion of Catholicism and the Chicano cultural beliefs reflect itself inside him. The inner conflict over spiritual beliefs effect the man that he is growing up to be. Juxtaposed to the catholic belief of the crucifixion is the torment of Florence. Florence is treated with severe…

The child walks into the room afraid of all the very different and new things looking back at her. She cries profusely as her mother walks out the room kissing her forehead before departing. The little sad child looks around, and picks a quiet corner to hide away from the other kids around her. This is all happening while the mother too is behind the door crying along with her. It saddens her to leave her little girl there lost and confused in a world that is unknown to her. For years, this has…

On May 15, I interviewed Miguel Gomez about what it means to be American to him. Miguel is my brother in law. He likes to contribute valuable time with his family and mine. Miguel is a really meaningful person to me and this is why I chose him. Miguel likes to take me out to places with my sister. Miguel and my sister live in the City of Anaheim about a block away from my house. He was raised in the City of Long Beach and works at Disneyland where he met my sister. He also likes to go out to…

This article analyses the representation of the development a feminized tradition of undocumented immigrants from Mexico and Centro America to the US as represented in Latino/a literature. Ruf explores Ramón “Tianguis” Pérez’ Diary of An Undocumented Immigrant (1991), Rubén Martínez’ Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail (2001), Reyna Grande’s Across a Hundred Mountains (2006) and Sonia Nazario’s Enrique’s Journey: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with his Mother…

The House on Mango Street is an amazing coming of age story about a young Mexican girl in a low-income Chicago neighborhood. The novel was written in the 1980’s by Sandra Cisneros (who will be explored further in the paper). The main Protagonist is named Esperanza. The story starts with Esperanza being happy about her family’s future, she is 12 and has just moved into her new house on Mango Street. The house actually does not live up to Esperanza’s expectations because it’s old and tiny. This…

In chapter one, the author Martha Menchaca discusses the racial foundations and history of Mexican-American Indians, Whites, and Blacks. Menchaca begins her chapter discussing how archeologists and anthropologists in the past before the 1960s had little interest in recovering Mexican-American prehistory. It was not until the 1970s Mexican-American anthropologists began to recover their culture’s prehistory. Menchaca also shares that Mexican-American indigenous past is both in Mexico and the…

discrimination founded on race, religion, and sex. However the university of California designated 16 out of 100 spots (16%) of admission for minority applicants in an attempt to create a diverse student body. This minority group included Blacks, Chicanos, Asians, and American Indians. Despite some of these minority applicants having lower test scores than Bakke they were accepted solely on the fact that they would contribute minority status to the university. Therefore the universities…

The first artwork undocumented is a painting of someone or an undocumented Mexican since it is called undocumented and the color of his skin is brown caught in spiky barbwires. He seems to be bleeding and suffering at the same time trying to cross the border. It makes me remember and feel past struggles of how I used to get bullied back in middle school. These were my dark and gloomy times. It was a time where I had very low self-esteem and issues of accepting who I am. I like how the artist…

The Chicano group lays out the educational goal that education must be relative to their people, for example, history, culture, bilingual education, and contributions. Their goal was to have community, rather than governmental, control of their schools, teachers…