The Chicano Youth Movement

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.

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

Members of such groups had walkouts from schools in Denver and Los Angeles in 1968 to protest Eurocentric curriculums, high dropout rates among Chicano students, a ban on speaking Spanish and related issues.

The Chicano/Chicana movement also protested the unfair treatment of Mexican American farm workers. Adults and children that were

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, but they had to fight to earn respect from Chicanos whose traditional machista mentality hindered the movement altogether. Women were a central part to the Chicano movement that aided in the movimiento’s success. Although Chicanas fought

Growing up has not been easy, but it’s a part of life we all go through, Like in the Disney Movie Meet the Robinsons you need to “Keep Moving Forward”. In Life we have to take challenging Obstacle courses that are not so easy but it helps us in life. One challenging obstacle course that we take is school, to be exact High school. In high school to get to the top you have to fail because from failing you learn, because you learn from your mistakes and “Keep Moving Forward” and you do your best to do a better job the next time. From success not so much because you are not learning anything out of it. Vista del lago students are required to learn special goals known as Expected school- wide learning Results known as (ESLRS).

The Chicano movement that occurred in the 60’s and 70’s came out during the same time of the Civil Rights Movement. It was about fighting for social, political, and economic justice for Chicano people. The issues that were highlighted in the movement were; restoration of land grant rights, fair treatment of farm workers, educational access and dismantling racial discrimination for Chicano youth, and pushing for voting rights. Common historiographies of the Chicano civil rights movement in the 60 's and 70’s center men as the sole contributors to activist work and change. Influential leaders that usually come to mind are Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzalez and Cesar Chavez. However often we forget about the great impact women leaders made in the

The Chicanx experience in the United States over the past several decades has shaped their history and strengthened the community as a whole. There has been an overwhelming fight against many injustices imposed upon the Chicano community by outsiders, and one of those issues is reproductive justice. For many women of color, especially in the Chicano and Black communities, there has been a reproductive oppression that is constantly imposed upon them by government and medical officials. Women of color, are more common to be on many government programs to provide economic and health support to them and their families. The U.S. government has always tried to scheming tactics to avoid providing these women with the best possible welfare support

The Chicano movement comes to a stop in south Texas where Mexican Americans students protested at their schools for discriminated against them (Barrera 1). The Mexican Americans were being discriminated by teachers, low grades for tests and overall grades in class and segregation of schools (Barrera 1). The Chicano students boycotted the schools by walking out refusing to return unless things changed (Barrera 2). They wanted the schools to notice the problems and make changes to improve the student’s life at the schools (Barrera 2). This is similar to the Asian American strikes because both of the ethnic groups wanted a better education. Another way this is similar because the Asian American strikes is refusing to attend school and the Chicano

The 1960s were a decade of intense social turmoil. Known primarily for the black Civil Rights Movement, they also inspired the Chicano Movement, which helped create equal opportunities for Latino/as in the United States. An important catalyst for the movement was the 1968 student walkouts in the East Los Angeles School District. This series of walkouts from multiple high schools, beginning on March 3? of 1968, were intended to discontinue the infamous racial tracking system, promote bilingual education, prohibit bigoted staff, and highlight the mistreatment of Latino/a students in East L.A. schools.

The Chicano movement occurred in the 1960’s and 1970’s as a response to socioeconomic and political inequality. Chicanos faced negative racial discrimination and was denied the same basic civil rights as well as the same educational quality that White people received. As the Mexican Americans developed a sense of consciousness of their political and ethnic inequality, they began to act politically. The Chicano movement aimed to restore land grants, increase farm workers' rights, enhance education, obtain equal voting and political rights, and develop consciousness of the collective history. During the Chicano movement, a poem called “I am Joaquin” was popularized in the United States since it promoted liberation and cultural pride. The poem

Throughout the years, women’s participation has been overlooked by the general public, where their contributions to civil rights movements has been belittled or removed from history all together. Their hard work is often accredited to men, where women are forced to remain silent and oppressed - all while depicted as unintelligent second-class citizens who belong in the kitchen in both the Latino community and the Anglo community. The Chicano Movement itself is a gendered movement, in which only men have portrayed as leader of El Moviemnto where whenever one googles the term ‘Chicano Movement’ the images that come up are of Cesar Chavez, Rodolfo Gonzalez or Jose Angel Gutierrez – all men. In the 1960s, the image of the Soldaderas was adopted by the Chicana feminists’ movement as a symbol of revolutionary womanhood and female resistance. During the Mexican Revolution, a new breed of women

In comparison to Mexican activism in the early 20th century, The Chicano Movement was far more diverse in their attempts to gain equality. In example, the movement further involved the youth, used art to help their cause, and staged boycotts and massive marches rather than just worker strikes. Far before the Chicano Movement, Mexican activists had been targeting the youth and public schools in attempt to gain equal rights. An example of this is the Lemon Grove Incident which occurred in 1930. This event involved Mexican parents keeping their children from attending school as the Lemon Grove School district had built another school in order to separate Mexican children from white children. While this event turned

At the University of Washington a group of Chicano students started a movement in the fall of 1968 who wanted to fight for justice and were inspired to do so by such groups as the Mexican American Youth Association and The United Mexican American Students. Students in the Los Angeles area and in Denver were especially tired of the oppressive conditions tied together with the inability to make changes which outraged them enough to take their issues public with their demands for education reform. With the help of teacher Sal Castro, along with college students like Moctesuma Esparza, student leaders including Paula Crisostomo and such groups as the United Mexican American Students they presented the Board of Education with as many as thirty-six demands, which included smaller class sizes, revision of textbooks to include Mexican American history, Latino teachers and administrators, and bilingual, bicultural education. With the meeting with the Board of Education not going successfully and their demands not being met the students threatened walkouts, which they call “Blowouts”.

The activism driven by the youth definitely carries a lot of weight and strength! A lot of people like to down play the influence that young people have on society but it's real. I'm not going to claim that young people can change everything they want when they want. However, change does and can happen with the help of collective and consistent activism. I think this immigration situation is a perfect example of that, like it is seen in the Undocumented and Unafraid video. In the video we saw young people like Cynthia and Tam who were working hard on bringing about a change in our country. Things like this aren't easy, especially not when you have powerful people in the government who don't agree. However, I'm a strong believer that change