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    The Chicano Movement was a time in America’s history that helped advance the rights of Latinos. There were different groups that made up the movement including Leaders, the Youth, and the Community. Analyzing the Leaders, the Youth, and the Community of the Chicano Movement shows that each group used different tactics to achieve its goals, and there were different reasons as to why each ended. Cesar Chavez, one of the most well known leaders of the Chicano Movement, used nonviolent protest to get

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    Inspiring and encouraging Chicano students to attend college, especially first generation students, has been a movement lead by many clubs, organizations, and by teachers who are passionate about their careers. Thus, “first generation students” is a term that states that a student does not have a record of previous generations attending college. Usually, students classified as such come from low income families as well as from poor neighborhood communities. That is to say, many of these individuals

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    to society. The Chicano movement started in the 1960s; the public wanted to repair social injustice. The Chicano movement encompassed a broad section of issues; from restoration of lands, to farm workers’ rights, to enhance education, to voting and political rights. At this moment many individuals were trying different ways to express their views and one of those ways was art. In the early years of the Chicano movement, Frank Romero established a reputation as one of the Chicano art heroes. Through

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    history, the Chicano movement has never given up. The Chicano movement believes that giving up is not a choice. They determined to one day receive equal rights. A Chicanos dream is to travel with their family outside of the country, vote during elections, earning fair pay, although they haven't accomplished that yet. Chicanos are very talented people who migrate to America in order to provide themselves a better future and their kids a successful life, however, it's not that easy. Chicanos have trouble

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    Chicano Literature is a relatively new literature movement whose writings focus on the documentation of Chicano history in America in the 20th century and in analyzing the Chicano experience through the years of various important socio-political changes. The main event that influenced this type of literature was the Chicano movement in the 1960's, which resulted in a better social environment, both in schools and in work places, and a new established guarantee of human rights for Chicanos. Chicano

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    Artworks and Chicano Culture in LA Frank Romero’s Chicano art served as a point of communication that illustrated the role of Chicano culture in Los Angeles, and also drew attention to the social and political implications that manifested on the behalf of the rise of this cultural perspective. Throughout his career, he produced works such as “the police brutality series” which drew attention to political issues, and works like “Going to the Olympics” and “History of the Chicano,” which illustrated

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    The Chicano movement was part of the American Civil Rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s. It sought political empowerment and social inclusion for Mexican-Americans. The term ‘Chicano’ was originally used as a derogatory label for the children of Mexican migrants. People on both sides of the border considered this new generation of Mexican Americans neither ‘American’ nor ‘Mexican’. In the 1960s the term ‘Chicano’ came to be accepted as a symbol of self-determination and ethnic pride. The real

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    Chicanos and the Liberal Agenda In the early sixties, when times were of segregation, racism and discrimination, Chicanos often suffered the most. It was a dark time for Mexican-Americans, who were negatively referred as ‘Chicanos’. Chicanos did not always have the empowered meaning it has today. In the early sixties, ‘Chicano’ was often used to refer to Mexican-Americans’ as lower class, ignorant and as a derogatory racial identification. Furthermore, racism, exploitation, inequality, conformity

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    The Chicano movement was a movement that inspired thousands of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans to boldly take a stand against discriminatory oppression. For years, the Chicano movement fought for Mexicans’ rights. However, the movement failed to recognize that its women were an oppressed group that also needed to be heard by the gringos and their system. The women were oppressed triply through race, class, and gender. Chicanas not only had to fight the American system that worked against colored minorities

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    conduct by different generations. The Mexican-American Generation between 1930 and 1960; and the Chicano generation between 1945-1960. Although both generations were had the same ancestry, they had different world view because their history and the events that were going on in their time. Both Mexican-American generation and Chicano generation similarities and differences help understand the overall Chicano history in the 20th Century. The standard way of thinking about Mexican-American is as immigrants

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