Chicano

LA school districts stood up for their rights to be treated equal and with dignity. Over the years when people would hear about the Chícano movement they wanted to know what were the problems with the LA schools, how are the LA schools during that time similar or different to the schools we have today, and what held the high school students back? During the Chícano movement in LA during 1968 the schools had numerous problems. The LA schools would lock the restroom for students, they wouldn’t…

did reflect my work the couple of weeks I was injured. I know a lot more about Chicano studies now than I used to. I really enjoyed learning about the Chicano Culture. Before this class I was very uneducated about the hispanic culture, and history. Living amongst many Chicanos in Yakima you always hear everyone's opinions about immigrants living in the United States. One of the biggest problems people have with CHicanos is them speaking spanish in…

open to new structures of language, as a result creating comfort within each other. Mexico serves as a neighboring country to SoCal which is also a big influence why there is more Chicano talk and accent in my speech. Although there are Hispanics who live in NorCal, their speech does not consist of Spanglish or Chicano English; their speech is more precise and clear. Thus, it is evident how “language from a state of change” (Spreng 2017) where in this case, the Mexican language begins to…

large number of Hispanics make up the population. The word Chicano/a was always spoken of in my community, but I never understood what it actually meant. As a child, I understood the word Chicano was just another word used to call Mexicans, or Mexican-Americans. In middle school, I began to build interest in history, specifically in the history of California that was tied into my race and culture. That is when I began to see the word Chicano used I various movements such as the walkouts in East…

Montoya’s monologue “Chicano on the Storm,” Montoya is dressed in a straightjacket and seems to be confined in a room. In the beginning of the monologue, the audience sees Montoya talking to Enigma, the nurse. From their dialogue, the audience learns that they are in Montoya’s mind which is “confused and full of rage” (Montoya, Ricardo, and Herbert 93) because, as they later find out, Montoya is having an identity crisis. He asks Enigma, “what is going to happen to the word “Chicano”?” in which…

Mexican-American Studies program at Cal State Los Angeles, will be the ideal stepping stone to prepare me for a Ph.D program in either Chicano Studies or American Studies and Ethnicity. My goal after earning my Ph.D, is to teach Chicano Literature and conduct research on Chicano subcultures. In order to this, I need to gain interdisciplinary knowledge of the issues that affect Chicanos, from immigration law, psychology, history, and of course literature. This program will give me the necessary…

time-lapses and it tells us how the Mexican-American started to gain a place in the US with the Chicano movement. In the mid 1960’s San Antonio was ruled by the Anglo social and the high class. The Mexican-American motivated by the gang warfare, the seasonal flood, and the strike of the farm workers known as “The Cause” that marched through San Antonio and finally knocked down the Anglo's autocracy started the Chicano movement. David Montejano, at the time he wrote the book, took advantage of…

a) A Chicano has many meaning to different people; people define Chicano in their own different way. Many people will go with the simple definition which is a person that is born as American but has origin of a Mexican, however, for me, a Chicano is someone who is proud of who they are and defend their own for a fair treatment. A Chicano is a Mexican-American who is proud to say that they are a Chicano. For example, to me, Cesar Chavez defended all Chicanos and himself from the unfair treatment…

For this RPQ we learned what popular culture is for the Latino/Chicano community, the differences between race and ethnicity, and Hollywood's perceptions of Latino actors and actress. Throughout the articles given on Moodle from Charles Ramirez Berg and lectures. We connect deeper to these topics by answering the questions below. Through the Latino culture, we see popular culture. This concept is through the development thru popular film, television, and music. Usually created by the…

Many of these movements not only affected Chicano/as people but also affected the music. As historical forms, songs of the Chicano movement have assisted and will continue to assist as a historical lens through which familiar and non-familiar audiences can understand the revolutionary demands of Chicano community during the 1960s and the 1970s (Ramirez, 385). Many song lyrics disclose of topics of resistance and the journey for political justice. Chicano rock and roll musicians worked to stay…