CHICANO CULTURE IN THE USACHICANO CULTURE IN THE USA

DefinitionDefinition

Chicano noun (pl. –os) (especially AmE) a N American person whose family came from Mexico

Latino noun (pl. –os) a person living in the US whose family came from Central or S America where Spanish or Portuguese is spoken

Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

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Ana Castillo 1: “[a] marginalized, brown woman who is treated as a foreigner and is expected to do menial labor and ask nothing of the society in which she lives.”

Slur

Ethnic Identity

1960s – the Chicanos’ movement

1. Ana Castillo (born 1953) is a Chicana novelist, poet, short story writer, and essayist. Story collections: Loverboys.

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Literature

-Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales. “Yo Soy Joaquin”

-Rudolfo Anaya. “Bless Me”, “Ultima”

- Sandra Cisneros. “The House on Mango Street”

-Gary Soto. “Living up the Street”

-Oscar Zeta Acosta. “Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo”

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Visual art:San Diego Chicanos’ Park- the largest collection of murals

Performance: Los Angeles’ comedy troupe “Culture Clash” Guillermo Gomez-Pena

Cultural Movement: Chicanismo (1930s) unified with Pan Indian Movement (Danza Azteca)

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Music

Lalo Guerroro

Linda Ronstadt

Santana

Selena

Chicano Humanities & Arts Chicano Humanities & Arts Council Council

- the Chicano Humanities & Arts Council (CHAC) was founded in 1978

-The Rocky Mountain News recognized CHAC in July 2004 as one of Denver’s Top 25 forces of Culture.

Danny Vigil Veronica Herrera