Chicano

Cihuacoatl represents a holistic figure the takes into account the creation and death of human beings. The belief makes many audiences think there is some link between the legendary Chicano figure of La Llorona and Cihuacoatl. Some of the most common theme in this story includes the white goddess dress and wandering in the night screaming about the lost child. Cihuacoatl also does the same. Within the literature, La Llorona emerges…

“Cesar Chavez” Cesar Chavez was an influential figure in the American Civil Rights movement whose work impacted not only the southwest immigrant farm workers, but a variety of religious groups and minorities (“History Makers: César”). With his biggest accomplishment being the co-founding the United Farm Workers Association in 1962 along with Dolores Hueta, he was also credited with the work of passing the legislation enacting the first Bill of Rights for agricultural workers (“Friend to Farm”).…

generation. This significant cultural mental shift to the individual from the collective with newer generations is also reflected on the lack of interest from students to participate in supporting the Ethnic Studies department on campus, which the Chicano movement fought to implement. Our communities are short of much needed leaders. Dr. Navarro firmly believes that we need to re-equip ourselves with a new movement…

Fieldwork challenges are salient in both of Mendoza (2008) and Peterson (2011), as both of them have worked with the youth and in classroom setting, and deconstructed presuppositions that both had or encountered. What is interesting, and perhaps related to my situation, is that Mendoza was categorized as doing “auto-ethnography”, which is in my case critical, and thus not showcasing my optionality will be detrimental to my research. Starting with a surface deconstruction of the sign system used…

happen. In “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”, Gloria Anzaldua, a Chicana author, writes about the partial judgment on her accents when she speaks English, but she feels proud of her mother language, Chicano Spanish, because she realizes that her mother tongue is her distinctive identity. Also, she encourages her chicano friends to keep their identities. Likewise, in “To the Lady”, Mitsuye Yamada, a Japanese American poet and activist, writes to a lady in San Francisco and claims that the consequence…

Previous and current research confirms that students are still subjects of teacher discrimination on a variety of grounds. However, research into teacher discrimination is not rigorous. Part of this lack of rigor might originate from the interdisciplinary nature of the concept and phenomenon of discrimination in that discussions concerned with discrimination often fall within areas as diverse as critical discourse analysis, critical applied linguistics, power relations, and identity…

The 1960s was a time of great economic prosperity and social progression within America. With the economy thriving as a result of World War II, baby boomers were born into a time that would reshape the ideals of traditional American standards regarding practices of, but not limited to, religion and racial separation. The combination of political, economic, and social structure during the 60s and into the 70s served to provide America with a more concise foundation and definition of its very…

Can we lose our cultural language in the learning the English language? Many people have the advantage of having the knowledge of two different languages. This can be a benefit or a drawback at some point. Some people may argue that we slowly lose our cultural identity once you fully adapt a second language. As in Richard Rodrigues Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood he adapted English as his second language, eventually making it his primary language. Rodriguez used his second language on an…

Marger begins by emphasizing the history of migration by Asian people into the USA; he notes that there are two distinct parts. The first wave is said to have begun around the middle of the 19th century and was spearheaded by Chinese migrants (Marger 2008a: 248). Their movement reflected the neoclassical theory of migration where people’s movements are dictated by push-pull factors especially on an economic level (Castles and Miller 2003: 22). The United States provided opportunities for…

1. The event that I attended was a community meeting created by the organization Association of Raza Educators(A.R.E) at the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation on November 12, 2015. The meeting started at 6:00 pm and lasted until 8:00 p.m, they were approximately about twenty people attending the meeting. 2. Who were the people involved? Who sponsored the event? Who spoke? What was their position or role (e.g., their job or the organization they worked for)? The people who attended…