Aztlan-Network-News Blog: Read: [NetworkAztlan_News] FYI: The Chicano Movement

Gracias Hermano Rosalio ~Good analysis that we need more of.
I found that Link via Google. Cheech had a hand in it.
http://www.cheechmarinonline.com/

http://twitter.com/#!/CheechMarin

The Chicano Movement developed and evolved in different ways in different areas of Aztlán. I am glad there has been a revitalization of the Brown Berets that will help to keep the Movimiento alive.

Many of us need to communicate and write more to share our experience, strength and hope. We must continue to have faith in ourselves, have faith in our people and seek working alliances with other progressive peoples here in the USA and all over the world.

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From: Gene Hernandez <chicanostudent@hotmail.com>
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Sent: Thu, March 10, 2011 12:27:17 PM
Subject: RE: [NetworkAztlan_News] FYI: The Chicano Movement

well said Rosalio

Eugene Hernandez

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From: chalio.munoz@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:24:28 -0800
Subject: Re: [NetworkAztlan_News] FYI: The Chicano Movement

A part of the Chicano experience that is very basic relates to the non Mexican indigenous peoples of the Southwest which numbered in the hundreds of thousands if not more who in many places were key, as mano de obra barata, to the development of the capitalist economy.  The indigenous in the Los Angeles area were the basic workers in agriculture into the US conquest and there was a system of institutional racism anchored in the economy into which Mexicano cholos, Chinese, Filipino, Hindu and other peoples of color were locked into as well.  To be sure institutional racism was endemic to US capitalism as it expanded into the Southwest (and into Mexico), but there was a concrete historical base of institutional anti indigenous, anti "indio" racism politically and economically established that was built upon, here in California and also in Arizona, I am not  so familiar with the other states and the proletarian role of the indigenous in the development of a "modern economy here".

  From: PETER S LOPEZ <peter.lopez51@yahoo.com>
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Subject: [NetworkAztlan_News] FYI: The Chicano Movement

http://www.chicano-art-life.com/movement.html

The Chicano Movement

The key to understanding the Chicano experience today is to know that the heritage of people of Mexican ancestry in the United States stretches back thousands of years and includes European, Indian and African influences. For many, their ancestral roots on American soil predate the arrival of the Mayflower. The Chicano Civil Rights Movement of the 1970s not only sought social justice  and equality for Mexican-Americans, but also sought to reclaim and educate people of their rich heritage. No single story or definition neatly depicts the Chicano experience, just as no one story can capture the heart and soul of any group in the United States. The Chicano experience is diverse, complex and dynamic.

It can be said that the Chicano Movement has been fomenting since the end of the U.S.- Mexican War in 1848, when the current U.S-Mexican border took form and hundreds of thousands of Mexicans became U.S. citizens overnight. Since that time, countless Chicanos and Chicanas have confronted discrimination, racism and exploitation. The Chicano Movement that culminated in the early 1970s took  inspiration from heroes and heroines from their indigenous, Mexican and American past. Community leaders, scholars, activists, artists, educators and students ushered in the Movement. Leaders such as Reies López Tijerina, Corky González, César Chávez and Dolores Huerta gave the Movement national leaders and voices and called attention to the issues facing Chicanos.

Part of the Chicano initiative was to establish a variety of educational goals: reduction of school dropout rates; improvement of educational attainment; development of bilingual-bicultural programs; and expansion of higher education fellowships and support services. Still others include the development of Chicano centered curricula, the  creation of courses and programs in Chicano studies, and an increase in the number of Chicano teachers and administrators. Thousands of students also mobilized and formed student organizations geared towards education reform, activism, and peer support.

A major element of the Movement was the burgeoning of Chicano art fueled by heightened political activism and energized cultural pride. Chicano visual art, music, literature, dance, theater and other forms of expression have flourished. During the 20th century, an emergence of Chicano expression developed into a full-scale Chicano Art Movement. Chicanos developed a wealth of cultural expression through such media as painting, drawing, sculpture and  printmaking. Similarly, novels, poetry, short stories, essays and plays have flowed from the pens of contemporary Chicano writers. Chicano, Mexican-American, and Hispanic cultural centers, theaters, film festivals, museums, galleries and numerous other arts and cultural organizations have also grown in number and impact since this time.

Much of Chicano artistic expression, however, has been excluded from mainstream museums and cultural institutions. That is one of the reasons why Chicanos have created so many of their own institutions. There has been continued development of Chicano arts but its validation has not come from mainstream art institutions. Only recently has Chicano and Latino art been  exhibited in a small number of mainstream museums.

There is no question that Chicanos have sustained a strong cultural presence in the Southwest, and that this has had a major influence on our nation's music, art, language, food, fashion and life style. One only has to visit Los Angeles, Tucson, Santa Fe, San Antonio or Denver to witness this. Yet broader mainstream American society understands Chicanos the least of the major U.S. ethnic groups.

http://www.chicano-art-life.com/movement.html 
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Peta_de_Aztlan
Sacramento, California
Email: peter.lopez51@yahoo.com
http://twitter.com/Peta_de_Aztlan 
http://www.facebook.com/Peta51
http://help-matrix.ning.com/
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F.Kennedy ~ c/s 