The Chicano Movement, A Civil Rights Movement

The 1960’s comprised of many different movements that sought the same goal of achieving equality, equality in means of: political, economical, and social equality. Two similar movements emerged during this era that shared the same ideologies: the Chicano and the Black Power Movement. Both shared a similar ideology that outlined their movement, which was the call for self-determination. The similar experiences that they had undergone such as the maltreatment and the abuse of power that enacted was enacted by the dominant Anglo race helped to shape these ideologies. Despite their similar ideology, they differed in how they achieved this goal, by either obtaining political participation or going to the extreme as using force to achieve their

The Chicano art movement rose during the civil rights era was based on three goals that included restoral of land, education reforms rights for farm workers. The three goals followed by the Chicano Art artists had long been coming. One of the first goals included rights for farm workers. Arguably, the Mexicans Americans fight to secure unionization for the farm workers was one of the key goals of the Chicano art. In order to Sway the grape farmers, Cesar Chavez launched a national boycott that aimed at the American Farm

Finally after many deacades of suffering the Chicanos decided to make their voices be heard around the country and fight discrimination and to demand the rigthts they desrve as Americdan citizens. The Chicano movement began since the U.S took hundreds of miles from Mexico at the end of the Mexican War in 1848. The thousands of Mexican that were living in the territory that became part of the U.S became American citizens overnight and since then countless Chicanos have confronted discrimination, racism and exploitation in their own country.

It challenged the ethnic stereotypes that existed in America about the Mexican culture and heritage. The Chicano Movement was comprised of many distinct protests, which included educational, social, and political equality in the United States. The new generation of Mexican Americans were singled out by people on both sides of the border in which viewed these Mexican Americans as not "American", yet they were not "Mexican", either. In the 1960s "Chicano" was eventually accepted as a symbol of self-determination and ethnic pride. The Chicano Movement had been forming since the end of the U.S.–Mexican War which addressed discrimination, taking inspiration from heroes and heroines from their indigenous, Mexican and American

The Mexican Americans thought of themselves as "Americans" and they stressed their American citizenship in the basis of being treat equaly under the law that offered freedom and equality to all its citizens. Being Chicano represents the struggle of being a citizens of an Anglo society while being raised in the Hispanic culture. Chicanos are proudm of their heritage but they are also aware of their American culture. These American citizens had suffer from discrimination based on their Spanish surmane and because they keep their customs form their Hispanic culture. They have been denied equal acdces to education, jobs, healthcare and politcal representation.

The Chicano Movement began as a grassroots organization to unite and represent the farm workers of California, primarily composed of Mexican Americans, with the United Farm Workers (UFW) union spearheaded by Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta. As the movement took shape it "developed into two overlapping directions, one emphasizing cultural identity and the other political action (Cockcroft 1)." Along with demonstrations, strikes, and marches associated with the political movement their came an explosion of cultural expression. It was also during this time that the term Chicano was more formally established as an identifier of ethnic pride rising up out of el movimiento, the Chicano Movement. The term evokes a strong sense of political association involving identification with the history of Mexico and la raza – the people. As the movement solidified, the voice of la raza

In American history, civil rights movements have played a major role for many ethnics in the United States and have shape American society to what it is today. The impact of civil rights movements is tremendous and to an extent, they accomplish the objectives that the groups of people set out to achieve. The Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement, more commonly known as the Chicano Movement or El Movimiento, was one of the many movements in the United States that set out to obtain equality for Mexican-Americans (Herrera). At first, the movement had a weak start but eventually the movement gained momentum around the 1960’s (Herrera). Mexican-Americans, also known as Chicanos, began to organize in order to eliminate the social barriers that

One of the many similarities about the Mexican American Civil Rights movements and the Chicano Movement in the 60s- 70s is that they fought for what they believed they had a right to have. Many in the 1940’s and in the 1960’s stepped up to show their loyalty to the United States by joining the military and sadly manly lost their lives during World War II and the Vietnam War. They were many Mexican Americans who were stationed in infantry and many dangerous areas during the war. They all fought with courage and fought with heart to accomplish the same goal each soldier had. Even though both the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement and the Chicano Movement seemed to have many similarities, they had many differences. I argue that The Chicano Movement and The Civil Rights Movement are different in many ways because they fought for different motives and wanted a better life for themselves as Mexican Americans in America. They of course had many similarities but took different extremes.

The Chicano power movement of the 1960's is characterized by Carlos Munoz, jr. as a movement led by the decedents of Mexican Americans who pressed for assimilation. These young people, mostly students, became tired of listening to school rhetoric that stressed patriotism when they were being discriminated against outside the classroom. Unlike their parents, the young people of the Chicano movement did not want to assimilate into mainstream America and lose their identity, they wanted to establish an identity of their own and fight for the civil rights of their people.

The Chicano Movement additionally was motivated by other social equality developments amid this time period, similar to the African-American Civil Rights Movement. Different associations that roused the Chicano Movement incorporated the Young Lords, Brown Berets, and the Black Panthers. Another movement between 1960 -1970 was the Chicano Student Movement. The Chicano Student Movement shaped as an aftereffect of the instructive imbalance that Mexican-Americans confronted amid this time

In the 1960's began the movement that would change life for Chicano's in the United States allowing them to receive the best well- deserved education. The Chicano movement started by Sal Castro and high school students made a change for many and life now could be so different for so many people around us. This movement helped give opportunity and was a long hard battle but was worth it because it involved something as important as their education. Many didn't believe Chicanos deserved educational equality thus the start of the Chicano

Discrimination has been the brawn of injustices done to people of color. Most don't know of the Chicano struggle in the United Stated for the past four to six generations. Chicanos in America were forced to face chaos, poverty, and pain. Chicano, by Richard Vasquez is a perfect example of how Mexican Americans and Chicanos were treated in America during the 90's. Although Chicanos faced a burdensome life in America, lots of customs and culture immigrated to America with them, which has fabricated the Chicano Culture. The book Chicano profoundly demonstrates how hard it was for a Mexican family to immigrate to America. Once Chicanos started a life in America, it was very hard to get out of it. Mexicans were not socially accepted because

A Chicano/Chicano is someone of Mexican decent or born in Mexico, but are residents and citizens of the Unites States. From the power point I learned that there are four different criteria in Chicano art that help express the culture of Mexican Americans. Expose oppression, rewrite Mexican American experiences into history, Create social and racial pride and showing and oppositional way of thinking. I also learned about some of the history behind Chicanos and how it all started with the Chicano movement in the 1960. They wanted to raise awareness about the inequalities and discrimination that many Mexican Americans had to phase. Chicano used art as a form of spreading awareness to their communities as well as using art to represent their culture.

The 1960s. Many groups of people were being targeted by the dominant group of Caucasian people. Especially the Chicano community. The Chicano community were treated unfairly and didn 't get the education that they needed. In order to get the necessary requirements that they needed to be successful. They found the answer in the form of walkouts. The walkouts resulted in reforming the education system to better serve the Chicano community. Not only did it reform the education system for Chicanos it set up the Chicano community for generations to come.

Though this movement existed throughout the 19th century, it spread quickly until it reached its peak between the 1950's and 1960's. It was aimed at getting black Americans (Africans) the rights and privileges of equality and citizenship without racism. This was done through large campaigns of nonviolent demonstrations, negotiations, civil disobedience and all legal means. The movement was focused in the south, where there was considerable disparity in education, health care, economics, and so forth.