Chicano

The Riverside Art museum was first discovered in 1967 and it is in downtown Riverside, next to the Mission Inn. The museum’s purpose is to engage and inspire people through exhibits and providing art classes that allows people to learn different skills. This upcoming new year, RAM will be celebrating their 50th year of art and appreciation. Some of their past projects included and integration of science and math into fine arts. This allows young people learn from an educational standpoint. Their…

alcohol, and ‘soft’ drug use” (394, Sela-Shayovitz, Gangs and the Web). There were other studies that showed that gangs “are often viewed as a large city phenomenon. These studies also saw that majority of gangs in the Southwest are Hispanics; the “Chicano barrio to support the view that it is more gang- or violence-prone than other cultural communities”. (159, Winfree, Social Learning). Which concluded that they would join a gang when their school no longer meet their social, emotional and/or…

The streets were covered with potholes, and also broken glass and beer cans. In addition to the littering, the street sidewalks were covered with graffiti while the walls were covered with Chicano canvases. This specific area of Sampson and National was surrounded by automotive places; tire shops, muffler shops, mechanic shops, etc... If you were to look up at the sky a plethora of billboards could be seen promoting smart investing, or car…

weeks, blowout after blowout, peaceful protestors who simply wanted their fair share of an education faced with ignorance and violence. Sal Castro is the main innovator and activist in these school blowouts, to push for educational reform and promote Chicano heritage and bring in more resources…

Through contemporary analysis, Jose Antonio Villarreal’s book Pocho can be explored as a modern depiction of racial stigma and overall conflicting identities held by Latinos during the early 20th century. The novel begins by describing the life of Juan Rubio, a man who fought in the Mexican Revolution during the early 1900s and later fled to the United States. Juan’s description in the first chapter allows the audience to create a certain perception of Mexico’s crumbling foundation at the time…

What is identity? A identity is something people must create for themselves, and let no one pick your choices, by Roberto Santiago. Now the real question comes, who am I and what decisions did I pick to end up me and what decisions did my family pick that influence me today? Having been born in the San Fernando Valley, California around May 1997, my parents were born in Zacatecas, Mexico around the early 1950s. Both of my parents grew up being farmers, working long days growing their corps to…

the Supreme Court of the United States of America. The case involved the admission practices of the Medical School of the University of California at Davis which reserved 16 out of 100 seats in its entering class for minorities, including Blacks, Chicanos, Asians, and American Indians. The purpose of this program was just to increase the number of minorities and disadvantaged students in class. The university valued this special admission program to counter the effects of discrimination in…

authority is reflected in the expressions “talk[ing] back” and “answer back” which repeat at least five times on the very first page of the article, reminding the readers of how the writer is silenced both at school and at home. She also narrates how all Chicano students are compelled to take speech classes to get rid of their accents. The way school tries to obliterate Spanish accent of students leads her to form a vehement expression such as this one, “Attacks on one’s form of expression with…

Indulgy website once said “Texas living is where the tea is sweet our words are long, the days are warm, and our faith is strong” For the past decade Texas has been viewed as its own “America”. In the text; Is Texas America by Molly Ivins she highlights some of the common Texan stereotypes and creates a generalization among all Texans. She does that through the use of comedy and irony. Creating the Texan to reconsider views of life in Texas. Although, one may disagree with Ivins claim on how the…

Langston Hughes provides insight on the race relations between Whites and Blacks during his lifetime, in the poems, "I, Too" and "Theme for English B", In "I, Too", Hughes mentions that he is "…the darker brother", referencing his darker skin compared to the rest of America, and how he is sent to the kitchen to eat when company comes over. He feels as if he is being pushed aside when asked to eat in the kitchen like a second-class citizen, but he does not get angry. Instead of letting those…