Chicano

States was the Chicano Movement. The Chicano Movement emergence from the Mexican-Americans pride of their own identity. Their purpose was to fight for equality, and eliminate the Anti-Mexican Racism. The Chicano Movement was formed by young students with a large voice that wanted to end with segregation, therefore they created groups and alliances to obtain their goal. However to obtain their purpose Mexican-Americans faced some struggles in order to gain Americanization. The chicano Movement…

You can’t talk about Chicano punk without bringing up East Los Angeles and what was happening in the backyard punk scene. Even within the punk subculture, those from East Los Angeles were alienated by the West LA punks who were predominately white. Only recently has more awareness been given to a community that birthed greats such as the very political Los Illegals (founders of the Club Vex), the socially conscious and all female band The Brat, and the D-I-Y group The Plugz who eventually…

I researched Latino authors with a drive to identify someone who resonated with my journey, my story. I came to a deep appreciation for Sandra Cisneros’s Chicano identity, her life, and her personal experiences that lead her down a path that gave way to her distinct voice so many around the world can embrace and connect with. Her voice is her own and through her writing encourages the reader to explore their voice and contribution from their own life’s journey. You will be intrigued with…

The Chicano Movement was something big for the agriculture workers, it sparked a lot when it came to their rights being enforced instead of taken advantaged of. This led to groups being created that supported this movement like MECHA who was created at the University of Washington, this group sparked the youth in the Yakima Valley, which led to the workers to boycott for their rights. Then there are the women immigrants that were centered around a male community, their rights were abused and…

started to be heard around the U.S. Most notably the African American civil rights movement. This movement sparked a lot of other groups to fight for their equality and rights now more than ever. One of which was the Latino movement also known as the Chicano movement which had been around since the early 1900’s but it was during the 60’s that they made their biggest impacts. These are the events that helped them progress in their fight for rights and equality. In 1962 the United Farm Workers…

Regatta at Sainte-Adresse Claude Monet was one of the most well-known painter for impressionism. He was born on November 14, 1840. In Paris, France. His painting Regatta at Sainte-Adresse is an oil-an-canvas painted on 1867. The dimension of the painting was 75.2*101.6 cm. This painting portrayed a cloudy day scene, and showing sailing boats hauled onto the sand, with sailors and workers. Claude Monet work depicting contemporary object matter, without idealization. His painting clearly depiction…

Chicano: Quest for the Homeland is a documentary that focuses on the Chicano movement of the 1960s. The better part of the documentary focuses on the leader of the Alianca group, Reis Lopez Tijerina, who led other Mexican people in protesting about the federal land as their own. This was according to the treaty signed between Mexico and the US, twenty years earlier. According to Tijerina and his people, millions of acres of land had been taken from landowning families and years later, the US…

social threat. Spanish churches dominated villages of Mexico, they symbolized wealth and power. The natives believed in the Virgin De Guadalupe, believing she was a reincarnation of the Virgin Mary. This information helps further my understanding of Chicano culture, as Catholics continue to believe in the Virgin De Guadalupe to this day. As well as seeing that she continues to be a symbol of Mexico.…

The idea that Chicano English has a low social status is not novel to speakers of the dialect. Ms. Guerra, a San Francisco native who speaks Chicano English, says she feels like people take her less seriously, especially because her “vocabulary and grammar is not good to begin with.” Note that Guerra may think that her vocabulary and grammar is “not good” because she compares to to the standard and what she was taught in school, and does not validate the correctness of her own dialect. Rather…

regarding Chicano gay men and their experience. In his essay, Rodriguez explores the concept of carnalismo as way to study gay Chicano men and their consciousness. Specifically, Rodriguez states the following: “Understanding Chicano gay male articulations of identity, desire, and experience in relation to this discourse sheds light on the impulses behind the simultaneous embracing and resignifying of family narratives, such as carnalismo, that contribute to the constitution of Chicano gay male…