What made Angels in America one of the best play for the last 50 years? For a similar reason why A Raisin in the Sun and The Zoot Suit were famous for. All these three play are based on racism and prejudice against an individual because of their sex‚ skin color‚ religion and sex preference. Human creature tends to fear things that are unknown and if someone or something that is different than them‚ their reaction to solve the problem would be hatred toward that individual. Which led to racism
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Chico and the Man is a comedy in the 70’s that shows how a grumpy old white man becomes friends with a Chicano. Ed Brown is the grumpy old man who owned and operated a filing station in Las Angeles. He hires a fast talking cherry young Chicano to help him run the station‚ he eventually lets him live in the station and they both learn about each other’s generation and culture and learn how to love each other. It shows situations on how a Mexican and white people can live and work together
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The Walkout tells the story of the 1968 walkout by high school Chicano students in East Los Angeles to protest academic prejudice and dire school conditions.Schools taught a curriculum that largely ignored or denied Mexican-American history and Chicano students were steered toward menial labor and away from college by counselors and school officials.This movie taught me that things have changed for us Hispanics since then because we are treated equally. Students were tired
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truce between MS-13 and 18th Street leaders that had international ramifications” (http://www.luisjrodriguez.com/history). Today‚ Luis is named the 2014 Los Angeles Poet Laureate and of course‚ he will leave a legacy as a major figure in contemporary Chicano literature. He has written a total of fifteen books “and was ranked number 63 on the American Library Associations’ "Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009" list” (http://ballotpedia.org/Luis_Rodriguez). His writings have appeared in the Los Angeles
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common ideas and beliefs because they were both Chicanos. Then‚ he shows that he was surprised when he noticed the different customs and ideas he and his wife have because they were from different grounds. They lived for a couple of years in Washington‚ DC and Alexandra‚ Virginia‚ then‚ they settled in California near the beaches and the soft weather. The writer argues that Texas Chicanos are more attached with their traditions than Californian Chicanos who show more Americanization. After some years
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opinion when it comes to the language of our family; she writes “My “home” tongues are the languages I speak with my sister and brothers‚ with my friends.”(Anzaldua‚ page 134) Her type of language is a considered a subcategory of Spanish‚ called Chicano Spanish. Anzaldua also explains that in her culture she had to learn different dialects of Spanish‚ according to region that person was from. These two women played chameleon with their languages‚ blending in perfectly with their surroundings‚ wearing
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The Communist Manifesto‚ one of the world’s most influential political pieces was first published on February 21‚ 1848. Commissioned by the communist league and written by communist theorist Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels‚ the Communist Manifesto set out the leagues program and purpose. The widespread inequity in the distribution of valuable resources created a political‚ social‚ and economic climate perfect for the introduction of Marx and Engels’ Manifesto. The work suggested a counter-hegemonic
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Chavez Ravine is a modern day example of institutionalized racism against Chicanos on a smaller scale than the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Chavez Ravine was made up of low income Mexican Americans who were forced to live there because of discrimination in other parts of Los Angeles. Mike Davis‚ a Los Angeles based author‚ writes in his book that most of the original Spanish-speaking homeowners initially unwilling sell gave into greedy developers representing the city and its public housing authority
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1. In this picture the group responsible for it is called ASCO‚ their intended message was that they were trying to break away from the mold of Chicano muralist that just because they were Chicanos why did they have to paint murals‚ this action took place at LACMA. 2. The artist to this empty shoebox is Gabriel Orozco‚ he is drawing attention to the commercialism if the art world. 3. The artist of Prometheus is Jose Clemente Orozco; this mural is located in Frary Dining Hall at Pomona College in
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The U.S. Census Bureau defines Hispanic as "a person of Cuban‚ Mexican‚ Puerto Rican‚ South or Central American‚ or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race". The term Hispanic is a blanket term to cover large very different cultures that have little in common. In the United States‚ the Hispanic culture ranks individuals against each other to show how connected they are to their origins. Albert Einstein’s quote‚ "You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better
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