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Read Acuña Chapter 13 through
16, with a focus on Chapter 13 and 14.
The following is the focus for
the week:
Chapter 13: Goodbye
America: The Chicana/o in the 1960's
Chapter 14: The
1970's: The Resurgence of White
Nationalism
The 50 Year Anniversary of the
Chicano Moratorium just occurred. Please review the article series by the
LA Times below
https://www.latimes.com/projects/chicano-moratorium/ (Links
to an external site.)
The reading for the week is
long and it is complex. Please connect the decades of the 60's and 70's
and find a few common themes. Finally, how does the LA Times article
articulate the moratorium and the activism. Is it fair or not fair?
...reference Acuna and Times Article. NO OUTSIDE SOURCES
Occupied American Chapter 13/14 Analysis
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Chapter 13
The experience of Mexicans in Vietnam is complicated.
There were many war casualties of Mexican origin during the Vietnam war. The
number of Mexican American dying in the war were double the number of white
soldiers dying on the same battlefield. The Mexican Americans become socially
and politically mobile. The Mexican Americans Civil Rights Movement had a broad
section of issues ranging from voting and political rights to enhanced
education and workers’ rights. The civil rights movement lead to the creation
of bicultural and bilingual programs in the southwest improving the conditions
of migrant workers, and more Mexican Americans serving in elected posts. The
number of Mexicans and Hispanics elected to congress rose significantly in the
1970s.
The Chicano movement describes the moment involving
Mexican Americans' ethnic empowerment among protests. The term “Chicano” had
existed long before the movement among the Young Mexican Americans. It is in
the 1960s that the radicalized Mexican Americans started pushing for new
identification. The group was advocating political and social empowerment
through cultural nationalism. Among the leading cause for the push and the
reinstatement of the Chicano movement was to fight for the end of
discrimination, segregation and negative stereotyping of Mexican Americans. The
other reason for the rise of the group was to seek and expand the workers’ rights,
educational equality, voting rights, and land use (Acuna, 2019). The Chicano movement managed to lead to the
passage of new laws to protect Mexican and Indian American rights. The movement
also managed to have Mexican representation in elected officials, improved the
working conditions of workers, and hiring of Chicano teachers.
Chapter 14
Laza Unida Party was a party of the Mexican American third party movement. The party supported candidates for the elective office in California, Texas and other areas in the southwest and the Midwest United States. The rise of the party was driven...
