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    La Raza Student Cultural Organization played a vital role on the University of Minnesota campus from 1972-2010. The student-led group of Chicano and Latino students from colleges in the Twin Cities promotes greater historical‚ political‚ and cultural awareness concerning the Latino community through cultural and educational programs and events. Each year nearly all student groups submit a request to receive student service fees to fund their various events and activities. These formal requests are

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    GUIDE TO Occupied America: A History of Chicanas/os By Rodolfo F. Acuña © Rodolfo F. Acuña 2013 Teacher and Student for Occupied America 8/e Table of Contents Meet the Author……………………………… Methodology………………………………… Module I: Identity …………………………… Module II: Mexico Pre-1821 Mesoamerica/Spain Module III: The American Wars…………….. Module IV. The Colonization: 19th Century Southwest Module V. Expansion‚ Immigration‚ Transformation‚ Reaction Module VI. The Great Depression: Reform ………………….. Module VII

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    Gloria Anzaldua

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    denied a culture and a place in society. Anzaldua talks about the dilemma she faced about her own language and how she represents herself through her chosen language‚ the confusion about their race‚ and what troubles she faced when teaching about Chicano literature. Anzaldua discusses her experiences growing up between many cultures. As a woman of many identities‚ she has suffered oppression because of whom and what she represents in an American culture that is threatened by anyone who is not of

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    discrimination in the United States during the 1960s like African Americans? How did their lives improve with reforms? To begin‚ the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement is one of the least studied social movements of the 1960s‚ but is important for Chicano history because the campaign improved a vast amount of issues like farm workers rights‚ to enhanced education‚ as well as housing and immigration rights. The movement followed in the footsteps of the African American community which was making strides

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    leading to the 1943 zoot suit riots of Los Angeles. Eventually 1950’s labor activism spilled over onto the 1960s and early 1970s becoming the golden era of the Chicano Movement. The spine of todays modern Chicano Movement. Although there are many aspects that fueled the Chicano movement one instrumental factor that transcended the Chicano movement during this time was the formation of the United Farmers Workers Association. The U.F.W.A is undisputedly seen as the pinnacle of breaking social constructs

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    Tongue"‚ depending on which angle it is looked at‚ could be seen as a rhetoric question in the sense that the "tongue" and or whatever it stands to signify cannot be tamed. In this case it metaphorically represents her native language-Spanish or Chicano Spanish-to be precise. On the other hand‚ the title could be taken as a statement of ridicule to show the futility or near futility of trying to force a change of language or pattern of speech on an immigrant or colonized people. She loved speaking

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    History Chicano movement was a movement that occurred approximately around 1960’s. The movement was a result of the Mexican-American civil rights movement that occurred in the 1940’s which sought out to achieve Mexican-American empowerment . It occurred all over America mostly in Southern California some of the cities involved was Los Angeles ‚Fresno‚Chicago and El Paso. It merged because Chicanos wanted to challenge people that didn’t understand the Mexican culture and heritage. It challenged

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    Running head: CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT 1 Civil Rights Movement and the Impact On the Chicano Rights Movement Rafael Molina Southern New Hampshire University CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT 2 Abstract Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. delivered his I Have a Dream speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington‚ D.C. on August 28‚ 1963. He spoke about Civil Rights and the rights guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence for all citizens of this country‚ regardless

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    hierarchies‚ Gloria Anzaldua starts with issues of language hierarchy inside the race hierarchy in her article “How To Tame A Wild Tongue.” Anzaldua describes that Chicano people’s language is different from either English or Spanish and their language are accepted by neither the Anglo side nor the Hispanic side. She states how Chicano people could have different status in different groups and their ambivalent attitude toward their own language. In summary‚ Anzaldua would complicate the central metaphor

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    The Concept of Chicanismo.

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    strategies by which Chicano origins and Histories‚ as well as present and future identities‚ were constructed and Legitimized. Furthermore‚ Chicanismo provided a context for historical reclamation of the self through the affirmation of Chicano cultural narratives while resisting Anglo models of assimilation. By the late 1960’s‚ Chicanismo had become in effect the central strategy in the process of self definition for the Chicano community. The Chicanos suffered a great deal

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