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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 became widely adopted during the Chicano Movement. Chicano was widely reclaimed in the 1960s and 1970s during the Chicano Movement to assert a distinct ethnic, political, and cultural identity that resisted assimilation into the mainstream American culture, systematic racism and stereotypes, colonialism, and the American nation-state. [63]
The Crusade for Justice was an urban rights and Chicano cultural urban movement during the 1960s focusing on social, political, and economic justice for Chicanos. [4] Gonzales convened the first-ever Chicano Youth Liberation Conference in 1968, which was poorly attended due to timing and weather conditions.
Las Chicanas Poster at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes. Chicana feminism is a sociopolitical movement, theory, and praxis that scrutinizes the historical, cultural, spiritual, educational, and economic intersections impacting Chicanas and the Chicana/o community in the United States. [1]
The Chicano movement centered on a wide range of matters: social justice, equality, educational reforms, and political and economic self-determination for Chicano communities in the United States. [1]: 418 In the same way that Chicano males were questioning the historical and contemporary realities of Chicanos in the US, Chicanas established to ...
Jenny Anna Santos was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. She is a community activist who speaks up for staying connected to ones roots. In preschool, Jenny remembers being told by her teacher ...
El Paso's well-known muralist Cimi Alvarado has completed a mural marking the Chicano Civil Rights struggles of the 1960s. The mural unveiling will be Saturday, Aug. 24 at the Boys and Girls Club ...
California Rep. Lou Correa is reintroducing a resolution to make August Chicano/Chicana Heritage Month to recognize Mexican Americans' history and contributions.