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Chicano Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Chicano Movement of the 1960s, also called the Chicano Civil Rights Movement , also known as El Movimiento , is an extension of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement which beg...
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Civil rights movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Chicano movement was a cultural as well as a political movement, helping to construct new, transnational cultural identities and fueling a renaissance in politically charged visual, literary, and performance art.
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1971: The 'Aztlan' mural is painted at the University of Washington's Ethnic Cultural Center complex by UW Chicano art student, Emilio Aguayo. Upon completion, it is one of the first murals to emerge out of the Chicano Muralist Movement in the Pacific Northwest. ... Special Section Chicano Movement...
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The "Chicano Movement" has been used by historians to describe a moment of ethnic empowerment and protest among Americans of Mexican descent beginning in the 1960s. "Chicano" had long existed as a pejorative term among young Mexican Americans prior to this period.
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How is the concept relevant to the Chicano movement? Is it impractical for our people to think of it? Is it dangerous? Will we wind up in jail or dead if we dare to talk or write about it? Might we be deported or labeled as 'unamerican'?
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