ETST 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Asian Latin Americans, Majority Minority, E Pluribus Unum

• School: UC Riverside
• Department: Ethnic Studies
• Course: ETST 001
• Professor: Macias, Anthony

Document Summary

Rolas de aztlan (cid:522)songs of the chicano movement(cid:523) Social activism, mass mobilization, direct action protest, urgent militancy. Brown pride in indigenous roots and heritage; anti-assimilationist. Demanded social justice, equal educational opportunities, and an end to police brutality, racist judicial system, and dual wage system. Exposed the contradictions and hypocrisy of american liberalism and tokenism. Land grant movement in new mexico (cid:522)tierra y libertad! Aimed raid on country courthouse; citizen"s arrests of park rangers, d. a. Founded the crusade for justice, denver co, 1966. Ruben salazar (cid:522)a chicano is a mexican-american who does not have an anglo image of himself. (cid:523) 4,000 students walked out of 5 different east los angeles high schools. Eventually more than 10,000 students walked out of 16 los angeles high schools. Throughout the southwest, high school students took to the streets igniting a wider movement for educational reform. History of the mexican american civil rights movement 1983)