HILD 7C Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Chicano Movement, Mexican Americans, Identity Politics
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Chicanx power: movimiento overview, the politics of chicana/o identity: a review and primer a. i. Chicanx is an identity they created for themselves a. ii. Chicanx is a political identity more so than ethnic, racial, or cultural a. iii. Politics, set of beliefs, struggle behind the term a. iv. Term that many young people of mex descent in u. s. embraced at the same time they rejected mexican american identity a. v. 1. Wanted to determine their own identity a. v. 2. chicanx identity shunned & rejected whiteness & second class citizenship status a. v. 3. embraced indigenous roots a. v. 4. made argument that mexicans in the u. s. were a colonized people in their own country a. v. 5. Mexican americans who did not have an anglo image of themselves a. vi. Latino: pan-ethnic term, includes people all across latin america a. vi. 1. More inclusive of people from latin american countries & spanish speaking caribbean countries a. vii. Includes all spanish speakers, including people from spain a. vii. 2. Attempt to disrupt power & strength of chicano movement a. vii. 3.
