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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.
From the beginning of its publication, the most pervasive issue addressed in the Chicanx Latinx Law Review is immigration.Within this topic there have been numerous articles addressing immigration reform laws, immigration restrictions, the process of immigrating to the United States, and the troubles immigrants face once arriving in the United States.
Chicanx/Latinx Studies, Portland State University, OR César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies , University of California, Los Angeles Department of Chicano/Latino Studies , University of California, Irvine
Xicanx (/ ˈ tʃ iː k æ ŋ k s, ˈ ʃ iː-/ CHEE-kanks, SHEE-, [1] / ʃ ɪ ˈ k æ n ʃ / shih-KANSH [2]) is an English-language gender-neutral neologism and identity referring to people of Mexican descent in the United States.
Cal State Fullerton's new Latinx Lab hopes to bridge the gap between preserving Chicano history and embracing a new era of Latinx studies. This college Latinx Lab won't X-out Chicanos. It plans to ...
Latino, Latina and Latinx refer to people who are of Latin American descent. This includes people from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Central and South America and Brazil, but excludes people from Spain.
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").
Latinx is a term for a group identity used to describe individuals in the United States who have Latin American roots. [7] [8] Other names for this social category include Hispanic, Latino, Latina, Latine, and Latin@ (combining the letters "a" and "o" into the character @).