chicano art movement Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/chicano-art-movement Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:24:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 California Chicano Social Movements http://travelsfinders.com/california-chicano-social-movements.html http://travelsfinders.com/california-chicano-social-movements.html#respond Sat, 07 May 2016 12:56:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=203702 Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Latino youth of Mexican descent reclaimed their ethnic identity and mobilized around it. Referring to themselves as Chicanos (a derivative of Mexicano and members of la raza, or the people) Mexican Americans used the label as a symbol of ethnic pride. As a politicized concept, the Chicano movement drew attention to the economic, social, and political marginalization of Latinos. Chicanos banded together to demand their right to fair treatment and equal access to education, political participation, and employment opportunities, as well as the right to claim membership in an ethnic community without prejudice. In California,

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