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Cypress Hill - Insane In The Brain (Official HD Video)

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Chicano Identity Through the Murals of East Los Angeles

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Known as "Los Tres Grandes",  José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaros Siqueiros and Diego Rivera, are considered to be the fathers of Chicano Art and muralism

Most of their works were drawn on churches or city buildings.

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Tomas Rivera was born to migrant farm workers and achieved SOCIAL MOBILITY by earning an university degree. He went on to becoming a teacher and a firm defender of education for Mexican-American youths.

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Morales typically writes his novels in Spanish with an English translation or viceversa. His novel "Caras viejas y vino nuevo" (1975) was the first chicano novel published in Mexico. Six years later it was published in English.

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Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales; boxer, chicano activist and writer.

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Born in Denver and suffering the consequences of the Great Depression, Rodolfo got into political activism in favor of Mexican-American people. His most famous work "Yo Soy Joaquín" is one of the pillars of the Chicano movement, of which Rodolfo was considered one of the founders.

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Mendez was a Mexican American author who had to move back to Mexico as a consequence of the Great Depression. There he used to read at nights while working with his father before returning to the US where he was awarded a teaching position.

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Considered to be one of the founders of the canon of contemporary Chicano literature, Rudolfo Anaya worked 7 years on his novel "Bless Me, Ultima", which heavily inspired Latino writers at the time.

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Hinojosa was the first Chicano writer to have his work internationally praised. He was born in Texas and spoke English and Spanish at home. He participated in the Korean War and received university studies for doing so.

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The Chicano movement was a political and social movement in the 1940s and 1950s. Its purpose was to give a global view to their racial issues and fight structural racism. The Black Power movement was also crucial to gain more strength against racism.

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In the early 20s, 1929, the Latino-American community formed the League of United Latin American Citizens. It gained influence after WWII when other civil rights organizations joined them, giving it the name of Chicano Movement.

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These murals depicted representations of the Pre-columbian era, religious symbolism and indigenous symbolism.
These themes are the identity of the
Chicano Mural and art movement and have been repeated thus far.

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A Chicano Theater company in California.

Perform in English and Spanish.

Founded in 1965.

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Founder Luis Valdez.

Cultural arm of the “United Farm Workers” and the “Chicano Movement”.

Full support of César Chávez.

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First full-length play written by Luis Valdez.

An absurd comedy about Mexican-Americans on the verge of the Chicano Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.

Racial stereotypes deeply rooted in the 1950s:

Wino (Alcoholic father), the long-suffering mother, the young delinquent son, etc.

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The driving force of the play is Belarmino (Belo), a head, who just sings “La Cucaracha”.

His enormous appetite keeps the family broke.

Then his brother Mingo comes back home from the army to change things.

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Staged in 1967.

Luiz Valdez wrote it to enhance awareness of the different stereotypes in 1960.

Deals with satire and stereotypes that North Americans have of Latinos.

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Stereotypes:

Compromise personal values ​for money, personal advancement, and to integrate in the North American way.

The characters are stereotyped models

Their clothing conceals their individualities and serves as an indication of their social statutes.

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Set in Honest Sancho's Used Mexican Lot and Curio Shop

Various models of Chicano automatons are displayed for sale.

A woman representing the governor's office comes into the shop and is in search of a "Mexican type" for the administration.

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She finds nothing interesting at first

Honest Sancho sells her a "new" Mexican-American automaton

Reveal at the end: Sancho is the automaton and all the others are deceiving the Americans

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Represents what the peasant theater is in the “Movimiento”

Response to the bosses' intimidation of the workers during the grape strike in Delano, California.

Elements of the comedy dell’arte: the pig mask reveals the characteristics of the rich Patroncito.

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The corruption and ignorance of the powerful ranchers is shown in this work

Workers are shown as people who are treated as objects and good only for the job.

Reports the low wages workers are earning

Pays tribute to Cesar Chávez for reporting the benefits of joining a union.

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A Patroncito rants about how good the farmworkers have it, as they have no responsibilities or money problems to worry about.

The Patroncitp says that he loves Mexicans and that he wishes to have it as easy as them.

The Farmworker listens to him knowing how poor he is, he works in the field because he has no other option.

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The Patroncito and the farmworker switch places for a day and the farmworker starts treating him as a “Mexican”.

In the end the farmworker starts abusing the Patroncito.

He screams for help to the union activist César Chávez, but nobody believes he is the Patron.

They take him away and he has to give back everything.

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Originally produced in 1978.

Revived numerous times, including two film productions in 1981 and in 2003.

Based on the Sleepy Lagoon murder mystery of 1942 and the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943 that occurred in Los Angeles.

Servicemen returning from World War II came into conflict with local Mexican zoot suiters.

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Some claimed they had been assaulted by a group of Pachucos.

Others responded by attacking civilians wearing zoot suits.

The police arrested the Mexican American youths for disturbing the peace.

Combines history and fiction, showing the fate of 22 Mexican Americans blamed for a murder they did not commit.

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The story of Henry Reyna and the 38th Street Gang.

The gang gets into a fight in Sleepy Lagoon, resulting in the death of a young man.

Discriminated for their zoot suits and Chicano identity, the gang members are found guilty for murder and sentenced to life in prison.

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In Los Angeles, Henry's brother Rudy gets involved in the Zoot Suit Riots.

In the end they win their court appeal and are freed.

The play ends with a family reunion with Henry returning home and Rudy leaving to join the Marines.

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Jose Clemente Orozco

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Mexican-American artistic and literary renaissance 1960s

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Mexican-American artistic and literary renaissance 1960s

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Mural production became was promoted by the Raza Unida Party in order to visualize the identity of Chicano and Mexican-American communities.

Most of these murals were still drawn in barrios and public walls.

The visibility of Chicano and Mexican symbolism in public spaces were often a shield against racism in those "barrios".

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Chicano Muralism is characterized by the youth of their autors

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One of the few known female Chicano mural artists

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Margarita "Mago" Orona Gandara specialized in Tile mural making.

Her work is displayed throughout El Paso.

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One of the most interesting meetings of the Chicano Muralism and graffiti art.

You can find Chicano Park in Logan Height, San Diego.
Each of the pillars of the elevated roads is filled with murals with different Chicano society-related themes. Some of them are changed from time to time, thus, these murals can refer to the actuality of the Chicano society and current reality

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Chicana women felt that the community was only focusing on the chicano community and felt like the issues of women were left aside, so they formed the Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional in 1970. It was them who stopped the sterilization of women who did not know English at the times of compulsory esterilization.

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Chicano Park Murals_nuestra tierra_cr Jay Galvin Flickr CC BY 2.0_ed (1)

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School walkout in East L.A. in 1968. After this walkout the students helped to stablish the Chicano Studies Research Centre in the UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles).

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Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

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The Chicano Moratorium was a movement that surged against the ongoing war in Vietnam. A demonstration in August 29, 1970 attracted around 25.000 people and it was peaceful until police had trouble with some participants and the gathering was called a police riot.

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Mayans MC Trailer Season 1 (2018) fx Series

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Felicia Luna Lemus is a self-described postmodern queer Chicana

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Alicia Gaspar heads the LGBTQ Studies Department at UCLA

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She is a referent in the contemporary Chicano literature and an important LGTB writer in her community.

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Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Sangre en el Desierto

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Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Sangre en el Desierto

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Ana Castillo target themes like racism, xenophobia and classism.

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Gloria Anzaldua considers herself as mixed, Chicana and lesbian.