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    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

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    Michael Thompson SXS 667 – Reading Response Paper #3 ID# 909067827 July 3‚ 2013 In her essay La Frontera‚ Gloria Anzaldua provides a detailed history of the persecution of the Chicano settlers of the U.S. Southwest at the hands of their Anglo oppressors. Anzaldua refers to the Aztlan‚ the borderlands between the United States and Mexico encompassing parts of Texas‚ New Mexico‚ Arizona‚ and California‚ as a “vague and undetermined place created by the

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    “The Many Deaths of Danny Rosales” play by Carlos Morton it is an interesting Chicano story‚ where we can find a situation of a murder case of a young teenager in a small town in Texas. This story reflects the type of discrimination and racist police officer and a lawyer‚ which the lawyer try to cover up the negligence murder of this young boy. The scene that I am going to talk about is in (pg. 12)‚ where Berta‚ Danny‚ and his friend KIKI are talking in the kitchen‚ when she sees them whispering

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    Wild Tongue”‚ Anzaldua introduces her own language Chicano Spanish to us. Because of 250 years of Spanish and Anglo colonization‚ Chicanos developed their own language‚ which was a combination of both English and Spanish. When Anzaldua was young‚ she was told Chicano Spanish was a bastard language and attacks on her native tongue continues throughout her lives. However‚ she didn’t feel ashamed of her language‚ and instead‚ she was proud to speak Chicano Spanish and wished it to be accepted. She believed

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    Simplifying Expressions

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    algebraic expression you always remove the parenthesis first. A.)2a(-5 + a) + 4(a + -5) Simplify the terms (-5 * 2a + a * 2a) + 4(a + -5) (-10a + 2a2) + 4(a + -5) -10a + 2a2 + 4(-5 + a) Reorder the terms -10a + 2a2 + (-5 * 4 + a * 4) -10a + 2a2 + (-20 + 4a) -10a + 4a = -6a -20 + -6a + 2a2 Combine the like terms : -20 + -6a + 2a2 a = 5 This is the simplified answer a = {-2‚ 5} B.) 2w

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    La Raza Unida Summary

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    Ideology organization to improve education for Chicanos. La Raza Unida became the political movement to set up a political power to take control of the education system in Chicano communities. Made controversial comments like “Eliminate the gringo.” Designed to appeal to the cultural and familial values shared by Mexican Americans. Rodolfo Gonzales a famous Mexican boxer turned Chicano Activist helped build a School in Denver Colorado to help Chicanos

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    Anzaldua. Chapter 5

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    Overcoming the Tradition of Silence • Muchachitas bien criadas • “In my culture they are all words that are derogatory if applied to women – I’ve never heard them applied to men.” III. Oyé como ladra: el lenguaje de la frontera • Chicano Spanish is considered by the purist and by most Lations deficient‚ a mutilation of Spanish. • A language which they can connect their identity to‚ one capable of communicating the realities and values true to themselves – a language with terms

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    Extended Analysis of North from Mexico The novel North from Mexico was written by a lady named Carey McWilliams‚ and was published in 1948. McWilliams did a fantastic job at showing Chicano history and how it continues to have a major influence on Mexican-American studies today. This novel also presents a general history of how Mexican-Americans experience life in the United States. McWilliams’s work provides information about Mexican-American culture that many people were not aware of‚ especially

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    Heart of the Aztlan

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    difficult vocabulary words to stumble over and it was interesting to read because of the words that were thrown in the story that were written in Spanish. Coming from a Chicano background‚ I was able to relate to some of the characters and what they were going through. This book is an eye opener and allows you to see how Chicanos before you suffered and treated poorly and expected to be of lower class due to their race. They weren’t expected to get a high education and get good jobs‚ they were to

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    ethnic power and pride in the late 1960’s. By the late 1960’s‚ a host of other groups began to adopt the rhetoric of “power”: Red Power‚ Grey Power‚ Pink Power‚ Brown Power‚ etc. What were the similarities and differences between the rhetoric of Chicano Power‚ Yellow Power and Black Power? The 1960s in America brought a host of movements that pushed for equality‚ power‚ and change. Each movement helped to shape and effect the other movements happening at the time. Each of these movements emerged

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