In Martha Menchaca’s, “Constructing History, Constructing Race,” she exposes how Anglo-American’s neglected Spanish American roots creating a false representation of Chicanos throughout history socially, economically and politically. She emphasizes that race was created by racist people in order to degrade certain ethnic groups. Mexican Americans were seen as an inferior race being that they lived in poverty because of their “dysfunctional culture”. (Menchaca 14) Lionel Steinberg ’s quote, “Farmworkers, unfortunately, were considered just another item in producing products…like fertilizer, boxes, or water.…
The Sainte-Chapelle is a gothic cathedral located in Paris, France. It is found near the Notre Dame of Paris, and it was built almost 768 years ago. The Sainte-Chapelle of Paris is a beautiful, ornate gothic cathedral known for its stained glass windows and previous relics.…
Song #1: Identify: it is colonial I think Theme: Spirituality, it talks about following signs and prophets, etc. Literary Techniques: Imagery and Symbolism Song #2: Identify: Chicano Theme: gang violence, it talks about being shot at and gang life Literary Techniques:…
Sometimes the production of art is related to the artist’s political convictions. To what extent is this demonstrated by the founders of El Teatro Campesino? In El Teatro Campesino the artist’s political convictions are expressed and demonstrated in the different skits they perform to give a better understanding to the people in the community of that social movement.…
George Lopez: (born April 23, 1961) is an American comedian, actor, and talk show host. He is mostly known for starring in his self-produced ABC sitcom George Lopez. His stand-up comedy examines race and ethnic relations, including Mexican American culture. He was the host of the late-night talk show Lopez Tonight on TBS until its cancellation on August 12, 2011. One of his comedy shows is called Latin Kings which shows Mexicans are hater and not happy for people. They use alcohol/drugs and always lose their jobs. Latinos grow up in fear because of the example of where not going to wait for you. Not wanting to talk to someone you see from afar. In the George Lopez Show he has the power. In George Lopez why you crying he talks about fast food restaurants have working Latinos and how when they take an order the customers cannot understand.…
After World War II, the Barrio Logan community became and industry mess from junkyards to metals and other toxic businesses that were affecting the community by creating air pollution. There was constant construction around the area causing loud noises. The city became careless for the location and the community was getting tired of it and refused tolerate it anymore. During the 1960s the black civil movement had inspired many Chicanos. The Cesar Chavez movement started during the 1960’s as well and that sparked the Chicanos to start organizations like MECHA and The Chicano Youth movement, as well. The community had been demanding a park for a while and now they were going to but their foot down. In 1969 the city council finally promised for a park for the inconvenience of the homes loss when the bridge and freeway were build, but no action were taken to build the park. In April 22,1970 the final straw had arise, Mario Solis a Chicano student had found out that the city was planning to build a highway patrol station. He decided that was the end of it, he went door to door handing out flyers to spread the word. By the next day 250 people had gather to at the spot to but an end to it, the occupation of the Chicano park lasted twelve days and the city officials finally agreed.…
Born in New Jersey in 1953 Juana Alicia is an American citizen most well-known for her murals and being involved in the Chicano art movement. Juana Alicia currently teaches full time at Berkeley City College where she directs a program called true colors. Alicia’s mother and friends were all activists, her mother being an activist in the farm worker movement, and her friends being Black Panthers, and Alicia herself attending a few of these meetings. In the early seventies Alicia was personally invited by Cesar Chavez himself to work together, they met at an earlier rally where she showed him her poster “Boycott Grapes in A&P”3.…
It was the first retrospective to present the wide-ranging work of the Chicano performance and conceptual art group Asco (Jenks, 2003). Asco (1972-1987) commenced as a tight-knit core group of artist from East Los Angels composed of Harry Gamboa Jr., Gronk, Willie Herron, and Pitassi Valdez. Taking their denomination from the forceful Spanish word for disgust and nausea (Jenks, 2003). Asco used performance, public art, and multimedia to respond to convivial and political turbulence in Los Angels and beyond. Asco remained active until the mid-1980s, contracting and expanding to include Diane Gamboa, Sean Carrilo, Daniel J. Martinez and Teddy Sandoval among others (Dieking, 1998).…
The name El Teatro Chicano is actually a blanket term used to describe an entire theatrical movement by the Mexican-American population in the United States. Established in 1965, Luis Valdez’s El Teatro Campesino (literally, Farmworkers’ Theatre) was the most famous of the Chicano Theatres; however it was hardly the only participant within the movement. In 1971 there were over 25 groups that defined themselves as Chicano Theatres (Huerta 15). The basic guidelines of El Teatro Chicano were simply to be a community-based movement committed to exposing social issues…
In Luis Valdez short play “Los Vendidos”, it is clear that there was a stereotyping issue and he demonstrates this symbolically. I have analyzed his symbolic demonstrations on how Mexicans are labeled and looked down on by society.…
The rhetorical mode of definition would be bold yet effective to use. If the writer had stated something like: Chicano Culture- It is the way we live. It is our "behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols" (https://www.tamu.edu/faculty/choudhury/culture.html). It is not something that needs to be accepted by those who oppose it. It is permanent and forever changing among all groups of people. This would give the reader a quick conclusion of the three excerpts.…
Their logo was "La union hace la Fuerza". This logo further creates a sense of unity which brought many more Chiacano students together and resulted into higher numbers of Chiacano students on college campuses. While these types of organizations were thriving, Chicanas were still struggling. They suffered sexual within their own community. Chicano men, expected them to serve as a pleasure outlets. If they refused to have sex, they were labeled as lesbians, which was one of the many reasons why they felt forced to have sexual relationship with the men that asked for them. Amongst all the discrimination, it is important to acknowledge that these were young girls who dealt with emotions and seeked some type of love, especially because their family…
The social challenges they face on a daily basis that will be focused on in this paper include: 1) how the Chicano community deals with…
Chicano Theatre is a relatively young genre of theatre in comparison to the traditional theatre that date back centuries. It was in the 1960’s that the term Chicano became prevalent in the United States. Chicano is used only of Mexican Americans, not of Mexicans living in Mexico. It was originally an informal term in English (as in Spanish), and the spelling of the first recorded instance in an American publication followed the Spanish custom of lowercasing nouns of national or ethnic origin (The Free Dictionary 2003). The transition of the meaning Chicano has varied throughout the decades, but it still holds its politically charged roots strong.…
14. Montejano, David, ed (January 1, 1998). Chicano Politics and Society in the Late Twentieth Century. University of Texas Press. pp. 33–34.…