The Causes And Differences Of Chicanos

Chapter five in the book, From Indians to Chicanos, by James Diego focusses on the how the breakup and transformation of the social order happen. There are three subtopics that the chapter covers. The subtopics are the contact enlightenment, the conflict that occurred because they wanted independence and the change that happen when they experimentation on the nationalism. These three things were important because they had to do a lot with how the breakup and transformation of the social order happened.

The Chicano movement is a Civil Rights movement that embodied the identification of Latino Americans in the United States. In the modern day, most people wouldn’t know about the struggle that Latino’s had to endure before being recognized by their diverse nature. However, the Chicano movement, just like the Civil Rights Movement, was a significant part of equality within the United States over the course of the past half a century. The Chicano movement had its roots dating all the way back to when the United States were attempting their Manifest Destiny from which they went to war with Mexico for the land now known as the south west of the United States. Ever since then, the United States had been treating Mexican’s and Mexican American’s without a regard for their existence. While Latino’s are finally beginning to receive recognition for it’s vast diversity, Latino’s nationwide still face the uphill battle against ignorance.

People fighting against injustices are something that happens every day it is inevitable unless the injustices cease to exist. As stated before social movements happen because of a certain injustice. This can be from people feeling oppressed from their race, sex, or sexuality. They have had many contributions to society mainly helping those and they get rid of oppression. While inspiring others who are oppressed as well to set up and speak up again their oppressors. Mainly helping other groups use the same successful tactic that other social group has done in the past or present. Some of these groups that are looked back upon on how successful their tactics were are the early Women's movement, Africa American movement, Chicano Movement, and

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 and assimilation were all main factors of the early sixties liberal agenda. Chicanos often faced numerous struggles as Mexican-Americans were often exploited profoundly in the workplace. Along with being exploited, Chicanos often face new threats like being fired, pay cuts, and ultimately deportation due racism. Anglo societies were advanced due to the inequalities Chicanos faced from education system and workplace. In addition, Chicanos who were proud to be ‘brown’ or embraced their culture, and practice their norms were often seen as outcast. The sixties main focus of the liberal agenda was to conform the Mexican-American. The liberal agenda attempt to make Chicanos deny their culture and assimilate to the Anglo culture. However, Chicanos often did not assimilate and conform. Chicanos often displayed their pride by dressing in their zoot zoot attires, speaking their language and embracing their culture. As a way to fight back, Chicanos embraced their culture in their music

Mexican American empowerment was the goal of The Chicano Movement of the 1960s, it was a civil rights movement extending the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. During this movement there were three goals that were achieved, which was land was restored, education reforms were gained and the rights for farm workers. . Latinos lacked influence in the national political arena prior to the 1960’s but that changed when the Mexican American Political Association (MAPA) were diligent in working to get John F. Kennedy elected president in 1960, which in turn established Latinos as a significant voting bloc. Once in office Kennedy had shown his gratitude towards the Latino community by addressing their concerns of the Hispanic community

Latin American immigrants are not just concentrated to one area of the country. Cubans mostly live in Florida, while Puerto Ricans live in the northeast, and Mexicans mostly live in the southwest (Chavez, et al, 2005: 508). Their main destinations in the United States could be based on the geographic locations of their home countries. They settle in the area of the United States that is the closest to their country of origin. The formation of ethnic enclaves is common among immigrants because it connects them to their home country. They are able to livie among people who speak the same language, or in this case the same dialect, prepare the same food, and have the same cultural values. This spatial distancing is further proof of separate ethnic identities. Immigrants tend to live within groups of people from their own countries, not just with people who identify as Latino. By living with people from their home countries, immigrants maintain connections with where they came from.

During the late sixties and early seventies, a Mexican - American movement was taking place in the United States, The Chicano movement. This movement takes place because of the Mexican American society 's suppression in the country. Indeed, during the years, 1966 to 1981 was a period where the Mexican American society was looking for equality and justice from the Government of the United States. In fact, they will start to organize their own communities, where the Government will accept their new ideas. David Montejano, “a historian and sociologist, and Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley,” wrote about that movement that helps the Mexican - American society being part of the United States. One of his books is Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986, where he describes the relation that the Anglo and the Mexican American people have in those years. In the same way, he wrote Quixote’s Soldiers: A local history of the Chicano Movement, 1966 - 1981, where he describes the Chicano movement as a way of helping the Mexican American community. By describing the Chicano Movement and the political changes made in San Antonio, Montejano relates the problems of equality and justice, the organization created at that time, and the consequences of this movement.

Mexican Americans also shared problems of poverty and discrimination with African Americans. According to Healy, Mexican Americans, like African Americans, have been viewed as cheap, unskilled agricultural labor that has been methodically excluded from mainstream America. Unlike most immigrants from Europe, who lived in urban areas, Mexican Americans and African Americans were prone to live and work in rural parts of the United States. Because both groups lived in less urban areas they had limited resources for education, skill development and economic opportunities. At the same time, however, Mexican Americans

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During the 19th Century, the United States sought to expand westwards and increase their land. Since Mexico stood in the way they did all they could to provoke it and start a war. “The Mexicans fired the first shot. But they had done what the American government wanted” (Zinn 151). What they wanted was California, soon they wanted Texas and then Arizona and New Mexico came along. For a long period of time, probably still today; Mexican-Americans are seen as “an ahistoric people” (Romano 44). An assumption that is completely wrong. Mexican American have been fighting for their rights and equality since they became part of America. In fact, they had two movements 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 worldview because of 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.

Reflection #1: Scars of a Chicano “We cannot give up in life because it gets hard. We gotta get up and keep going because only the cowards quit. ”Growing up in the projects I faced a variety of challenges that I had to face. in order to pursue higher education. The word resilience is a word I keep close to my heart for a various of reasons.

My existence as low-income Chicano from the “ghettos” of Dallas is me being an agent of change. The media presents Latinxs as all being the same: violent criminals. Seeing someone who looks like you in a position that seems exclusive is one of the most powerful things in the world. I had to wait until the age of fifteen to see a Latino-American superhero in media. I physically cried. I had to wait until the age of sixteen to hear the word “Chicano” or hear about my history. I had the same feeling as I did when I saw Jaime Reyes, the best superhero you’ve never heard of. The coordinator of the Environmental Analysis department, Marc Los Huertos, is an agent of change. When I was signing up for classes and I saw the last name “Los Huertos,” I

Unlike ethnic Mexicans, South Americans have been able to integrate into the labor market. This is due to the fact that they were not seeking low wage jobs, rather most seeking employment had high levels of education and hoping for professional positions. Marilyn Espitia explains that this was due to the “unstable economic structure of many South American countries”, which offered low wage professional employment opportunities. (Espitia, 2006, p.267). This created a perception of South Americans that vastly contrasted that of the ethnic Mexicans, for South Americans were not seen as the un-educated competition, but rather were seen as professional counterparts. Moreover, because South Americans were looking to have employment in professional

These kind of jobs are usually labor intensive and don’t attract many employees. For instance, many illegal immigrants decide to work in jobs that don’t require work permits. The landscape and construction are popular with immigrants as there are generally no requirements but hard labor. Other employment areas include restaurants (dish washing), hospitality, prostitution, agriculture, and domestic services. Besides in search of better economic opportunities, people illegally migrate to foreign nations due to family problems, war, overpopulation, or illness. There are some countries in the world that are becoming overpopulated and face a risk of limited resources and production. This eventually causes people to illegally immigrate to less populated countries where there is no risk of living. For example, China is a nation that is powerful, resourceful, and wealthy; yet it faces a problem of overpopulation. As a result, Chinese tend to illegally immigrate to other foreign countries to escape from the overpopulation they face in their home country (Mooney, et al., 1997). This issue rose as of undeveloped countries that were unable to provide a good standard of life for their citizens to a growing worldwide issue. This can’t go on forever; today’s society is trying it’s best to bring a halt to this growing issue. Precautions, security, and corruption are all being fought against to try to stop

When immigrants come to the united states they usually have very little to get a good start with in their new country. When getting off of the boat, out of the car, off of train or plane they have to find their own way. The Film A Little Salsa on the Prairie shows just how hard it can be on immigrants trying to fit into a new community. In ALSP, the little town called Perry, had a big influx of hispanic ethnicity immigrants to their town to take up jobs in the new meatpacking plant. When they arrived people were infuriated about losing jobs in the town. They very well could have applied and gotten jobs in the factory but they felt privileged to receive higher pay than what was being offered.