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The Chicano Movement, also referred to as El Movimiento (Spanish for "the Movement"), was a social and political movement in the United States that worked to embrace a Chicano/a identity and worldview that combated structural racism, encouraged cultural revitalization, and achieved community empowerment by rejecting assimilation.
Chicano (masculine form) or Chicana (feminine form) is an ethnic identity for Mexican Americans that emerged from the Chicano Movement. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Chicano was originally a classist and racist slur used toward low-income Mexicans that was reclaimed in the 1940s among youth who belonged to the Pachuco and Pachuca subculture.
The Chicano Movement's purpose was to fight for the civil rights and cultural identities of the Chicano and Mexican-American Communities. [5] The movement was most active in the 1960s and 1970s but still continues today. Today Chicanos and Latinos make up the largest minority in the United States being about 20% of the population. [5]
The Chicano movement was in full force and inconveniencing the status quo. Earlier that year, the La Raza Unida Party formed and would disrupt elections in Texas and Los Angeles through the ballot ...
The group worked giving support for the Chicano movement on issues such as educational reform, farm worker rights, police brutality, and the Vietnam War. [2] In March 1968, after school districts in the East Los Angeles area were noted as being "run down campuses, with lack of college prep courses, and teachers who were poorly trained ...
The Chicano Movement and its leaders allowed the Hispanic community to have room in conversations in modern-day America and have empowered them to exercise their rights. Cinco de Mayo was borne of ...
Mexican American Youth Organization: Avant-Garde of the Movement in Texas (University of Texas Press, 1995) Navarro, Armando. The Cristal Experiment: A Chicano Struggle for Community Control (University of Wisconsin Press, 1998) Navarro, Armando. La Raza Unida Party: A Chicano Challenge to the U.S.
Henry Kissinger’s influence in Latin America is a controversial aspect of his legacy following his death at 100, and his role in the Vietnam War helped spark the Chicano movement.