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  2. Chicano Movement - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Juan Valdez (activist) - Wikipedia

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    Juan Valdez (1938 – August 25, 2012) was an activist of Spanish and indigenous descent [1] and an advocate for land-grant rights. He fired the first shot during a 1967 New Mexico courthouse raid that seized international attention and helped spark the Chicano Movement.

  4. Chicano - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Chicano names - Wikipedia

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    Chicano naming practices formed out of the cultural pride that was established in the Chicano Movement. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] This motivated some Chicanos to adopt Indigenous Mexican names, often Aztec (or Nahuatl ) in origin, for themselves and their children, rather than Spaniard names, [ 1 ] which were first imposed onto Indigenous Mexico in the 16th ...

  6. Chicanismo - Wikipedia

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    The Chicano movement of the 1960s, also known as El Movimiento, was a movement based on Mexican-American empowerment. [11] It was based in ideas of community organization, nationalism in the form of cultural affirmation, and it also placed symbolic importance on ancestral ties to Meso-America.

  7. Herman Baca - Wikipedia

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    Herman Baca became active at the peak of the Chicano Civil Rights Movement.In 1968, Baca volunteered as a block captain for Richard Nixon's presidential campaign. That same year, frustrated by the lack of political representation of Chicanos, Baca was drawn into the Mexican American Political Association, which at the time was focused on registering Mexican Americans to vote and educating ...

  8. Rosalio Muñoz - Wikipedia

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    Rosalio Muñoz (born 1938) is a Chicano activist who is most recognized for his anti-war and anti-police brutality organizing with the Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War. On August 29, 1970, Muñoz and fellow Chicano activist Ramses Noriega organized a peaceful march in East Los Angeles, California in which over 30,000 Mexican Americans ...

  9. raúlrsalinas - Wikipedia

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    He was an early pioneer of Chicano pinto poetry and is notable for his use of vernacular, bilingual, and free verse aesthetics. [3] Alongside Ricardo Sánchez, Judy Lucero, Luis Talamantez, and Jimmy Santiago Baca, raúlrsalinas sought to make prisoners' rights a more central focus of the Chicano Movement. [4]