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Daniel Chacón (born 1962) is a Chicano short story writer, novelist, essayist, editor, professor, and radio host based in El Paso, Texas. [1] He chairs the University of Texas at El Paso creative writing graduate program, the country's only bilingual MFA program. [2]
Chicano literature is an aspect of Mexican-American literature that emerged from the cultural consciousness developed in the Chicano Movement. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Chicano literature formed out of the political and cultural struggle of Chicana/os to develop a political foundation and identity that rejected Anglo-American hegemony.
Chicano may derive from the Mexica people, originally pronounced Meh-Shee-Ka. [43]The etymology of the term Chicano is the subject of some debate by historians. [44] Some believe Chicano is a Spanish language derivative of an older Nahuatl word Mexitli ("Meh-shee-tlee").
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 English is sometimes mistakenly conflated with Spanglish, which is a mixing of Spanish and English; however, Chicano English is a fully formed and native dialect of English, not a "learner English" or interlanguage. It is even the native dialect of some speakers who know little to no Spanish, or have no Mexican heritage.
Cholo Handstyle descended from gang writing in Chicano neighborhoods in the '60s and '70s, [5] and even hand-painted gang lettering in the '40s, [6] is a prominent handstyle in Los Angeles. The handstyle can be described as "elegant, single-line scripts." The style has been popularized by writers such as Chaz Bjorquez, CRYPTIK, DEFER, SLEEPS ...
During the 1960s, Chicano peoples living in the greater American Southwest began to use the concept of Aztlan as a way to show their pride in their national identity. [7] It came to be known as a mythical homeland for those of Mexican American heritage; an imaginary place "based on a revival of Mexicanismo". [ 8 ]
The Chicano movement of the 1960s was a masculine one. In many ways, women were excluded, and it even "tended to reflectively reproduce the subordination of women." [ 7 ] The Plan Espiritual de Aztlán (1969), which was the manifesto of the Chicano movement, was ripe with words like "brotherhood, brothers, mestizo , etc. Women were not included ...