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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. 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.

  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. One of the oldest Chicano murals in the country resides in ...

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    Their art coincided with the rise of labor leader Cesar Chavez and the Chicano movement’s push for political and social rights. In 2018, the Royal Chicano Air Force and Villa unveiled a three ...

  6. Henry Kissinger's policies on Chile, Vietnam had deep impact ...

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    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.

  7. Bracero Program - Wikipedia

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    Griego's article discusses the bargaining position of both countries, arguing that the Mexican government lost all real bargaining-power after 1950. In addition to the surge of activism in American migrant labor the Chicano Movement was now in the forefront creating a united image on behalf of the fight against the Bracero Program.

  8. The staying power of Joe Kapp's 'The Toughest Chicano ... - AOL

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    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 ...

  9. Chicano nationalism - Wikipedia

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    Chicano nationalism allowed Chicanos to define themselves as a group on their own terms, and was a determination on their part to mold their own destiny. It is rooted in the Aztec creation myth of Aztlán , a "northerly place".