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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 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 ...
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.
During the 1930s and 1940s, the Chicano look known as pachuco appeared and was associated with the zoot suit and hep cat subcultures. [13] The press at the time accused the pachucos in the U.S. of gang membership, petty criminality, and a lack of patriotism during World War II leading to the Zoot Suit Riots . [ 14 ]
Bernal's works contributed heavily to the Chicano Movement in the 1960s and 1970s. One of his most popular series, Barrios , encapsulates the different aspects that comprise Chicanx identity. It contains 30 photographs that focus on the people and objects in subject's homes and surroundings. [ 1 ]
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 ...
César Augusto Martínez (born 1944 in Laredo, Texas) is an artist, prominent in the field of Chicano art. While studying at what was then called Texas A&I College (later Texas A&I University), he became involved in the Chicano movement for civil rights. He subsequently befriended several of its leaders.
A leading figure in the Chicano movement, [6] [7] [8] Alcaraz formerly contributed political cartoons for LA Weekly from 1992 to 2010. He co-hosts a radio show on KPFK called the "Pocho Hour of Power". [9] [10] Alcaraz is also the "Jefe-in-Chief" of POCHO.COM, a website specializing in "Ñews y Satire." [11]