The author honors all the men and women who served in Vietnam but specifically
Chicanos, and those left behind who watched and waited but never forgot.
Born in Mexico, de Hoyos spent most of her life in San Antonio, Texas, where she saw firsthand
Chicanos loss of language, identity and traditions.
Many
Chicano writers, artists, and academics challenge this assimilation effort by acknowledging and exposing the legacy of the
Chicano Movement of the 1960s.
Hidden
Chicano Cinema: Film Dramas in the Borderlands.
Aztlan is not deployed to imagine a community of struggle but rather a signifier of the "imminent danger"
Chicanos, Mexicanos, and the recognition of difference pose to nostalgic renderings of a homogenized America.
Herrera, coauthored by poet Levi Romero and with photography by Robert Kaiser, tells the remarkable story of a cruise through the United States Southwest by two professors and a photographer artist, an itinerant trio led by a compass of cherished writers--Rudolfo Anaya, Tomas Rivera, and, among others, Octavio Paz--and pulled by the ideal of another America and by what Herrera calls the elusive
Chicano notion of culture and identity.
As but one more example, the old school Chicano/a movement has influenced la nueva onda Xicanismo; and new Xicanas/os are influencing old school
Chicanos.
This coalition between Jews and
Chicanos was named Centro Cultural,
In the end,
Chicanos Studies created an infrastructure that included the National Association for
Chicano Studies, its own peer-reviewed journals, and a diverse canon, that reified the process of intellectual production.
As he retranslates the play (and the jokes), paces the Mexican actors to reproduce the 1940s-movie clip of the dialogue, and incorporates the dancers specially added to the company for this production, Valdez hopes that what he calls a "final" version of the play will put over his original point: "
Chicanos were Mexicans living in the U.S.
The overall educational attainment of males, specifically pertaining to
Chicanos and Latinos, has become of increasing concern in the past decade (Kleinfeld 1998; Ginorio and Huston, 2001; Lopez, 2003; Suarez-Orozco & Qin-Hilliard, 2004).