Chicano - a political term made popular in the sixties with the Chicano Civil Rights Movement which followed the example of the Black Civil Rights Movement. The people of the Movement adopted the word Chicano for themselves just as the African Americans had adopted Black. The Chicano Movement fought for all people of the Southwest of Mexican descendancy. These people included those whose ancestors had been citizens in the southwest when it was Mexico before the United States occupied it in 1848
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Gangs and Juvenile Delinquency in the Hispanic Culture Abstract: There has been a rise in gang violence among the youth across the nation. There are also cruel and violent tendencies that the youth that are a part of this group. It is important to understand reasons why Hispanic youth are turning toward gangs. The influx of gang activity in the neighborhoods and schools has adversely affected the level of violence seen in communities across the nation. The rise in the Latino population in many
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“How to Tame a Wild Tongue” Gloria Anzaldua‚ the author of “How to Tame a Wild Tongue‚” expresses a very strong tie that she has to her native language. Anzaldua grew up in the United States‚ but spoke mostly Spanish. She did not speak the normal form of Spanish though; she spoke Chicano Spanish‚ a language very close to her heart. The text focuses on the idea of her losing her home accent‚ or tongue‚ to conform to the environment she is growing up in. From a very young age‚ Anzaldua knows
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Both Lydia Mendoza and Selena Quintanilla Perez are well known as “the queen of Tejano”. In a music heavily dominated by man‚ Lydia Mendoza was the first star of recorded Tejano and Norteno music. According to Lydia Mendoza: the first lady of Tejano‚ the author explained thanks to her 12-string guitar and her clear‚ heartfelt voice which made her become a sensation throughout Latin America in the 1940s and 1950s. She is representation of the early recording industry researched pockets of regional
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Dolly and her friends noticed prom was coming up. Although‚ Dolly had no one to go with yet she was still interested in going with this one guy named Carlos. He was an old school guy that dressed like a pachuco‚ Dolly loved that about him. Dolly and her friends gathered around the avenue‚at their spot‚ right after school to discuss about the upcoming event. Dolly and her friends were undecided on going to prom or the upcoming kickback with the old veterans. They discussed about it all night‚ but
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Luis Valdez and Peter Malae on Prison Industrial Complex Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) is a term used to describe the overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance‚ policing‚ and imprisonment as solutions to social‚ economic‚ and political problems. Angela Davis is a journalist and American political activist who believes that the U.S practice of super-incarceration is closer to new age slavery than any system of criminal justice. She defines the PIC as biased for criminalizing
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The young pachuco culture was seen as a slap in the face to the patriotic Americans who were going off to war and dying for their country. Large numbers of Chicano men were also going off to war and showing that they loved America and were willing to die for her
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Octavio Paz Lozano once said: “Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather‚ speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think” (N/A‚ 2000). Paz was a man of many talents. His knowledge and ability to write throughout his life earned him the title as on the greatest Mexican authors and diplomats of all time. Paz’s works supported both the surrealism and existentialism literary movements‚ two movements that he experienced first-hand while traveling throughout
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Mac Werther Mr. Matthews AP English 30 March 2009 Honorbound Oedipa’s Struggle Towards Identity in The Crying of Lot 49 The Oxford English Dictionary defines identity as “the sameness of a person or thing at all times or in all circumstances; the condition or fact that a person or thing is itself and not something else; individuality‚ personality.” Personal identity and‚ especially‚ the loss of identity are reoccurring themes in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49‚ as individuals struggle
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Mexican rebel leaders and what many people felt were “ gringo oppression” during the Mexican-American war and these songs became even more known during the Mexican Revolution. Many songs were based upon the 1940’s Zoot Suit Riots in major cities in the Pachuco days and Pachuko Hop was released by Chuck Higgins as well as Wetback Hop‚ which would cause a commotion nowadays. “Chico” Sesma promoted L.A area concerts and had a radio show that was popular with Chicano youths in the 1950’s‚ mainly gang members
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