Chicano

"Chicana" redirects here. For the wrestler, see Sangre Chicana.

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Chicanos and Mexican Americans
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Terms Identity Chicana/o Mexican American Chola/o La Raza Pachuca Pachuco Pinta/o Xicanx Concepts Anti-Mexican sentiment
History Early-American Period Josefa Segovia Las Gorras Blancas Mexican–American War Mutualista San Elizario Salt War Sonoratown Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Pre-Chicano Movement 1917 Bath riots Bisbee Deportation Bloody Christmas Bracero program Cantaloupe strike of 1928 California agricultural strikes La Matanza Mexican Repatriation Operation Wetback Plan de San Diego Porvenir Massacre Sleepy Lagoon trial Zoot Suit Riots Chicano Movement Aztlán Black-brown unity Brown Berets Católicos por La Raza Chicanismo Chicano Moratorium Colegio César Chávez CFMN Conferencia de Mujeres CRP East L.A. walkouts Hijas de Cuauhtémoc Huelga schools Land grant struggle Las Adelitas de Aztlán Los Siete de la Raza Los Seis de Boulder MANA MAYO MEChA Occupation of Catalina Island PCUN Plan Espiritual de Aztlán Plan de Santa Bárbara Quinto Sol Raza Unida Party United Farm Workers Post-Chicano Period 1985–1987 cannery strike 1992 Drywall Strike 2019 El Paso shooting Abolish ICE Arizona SB 1070 Castro 2020 DACA Great American Boycott IRCA Farah strike Justice for Janitors Murder of Selena Proposition 187 Xicanx
Culture Language Caló Chicano English Food New Mexican cuisine Tex-Mex cuisine Mexican-American cuisine Music Chicano rap Chicano rock Chicano soul Tejano music Symbols Centro Cultural de la Raza Lowrider Lowrider bicycle Mexican-American folklore Zoot suit
Literature Literature Chicana literature Chicano literature Chicano poetry Autobiographical Always Running Living Up the Street Who Would Have Thought It? Novels Bless Me, Ultima Caballero Desert Blood From This Wicked Patch of Dust Mexican WhiteBoy The Dirty Girls Social Club The House on Mango Street The Rain God The Revolt of the Cockroach People So Far from God Under the Feet of Jesus ...y no se lo tragó la tierra Poetry and Short Stories Emplumada I Am Joaquin Moment of Silence Pensamiento Serpentino The Moths
Chicana/o studies Fields Chicana feminism Chicanafuturism Chicano critical race theory Organizations MAS Programs, Tucson NACCS UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Texts Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza Brown, Not White The Church in the Barrio This Bridge Called My Back Theory Barrioization Coyolxauhqui imperative Gringo justice Nahui Ollin Nepantla New tribalism Rasquachismo Spiritual activism Vergüenza Youth control complex
Visual art Visual Art Chicana art Chicano art Chicano films Paño Tortilla art Art Collectives Asco Culture Clash East Los Streetscapers Los Four Mujeres Muralistas Teatro Campesino Royal Chicano Air Force Locations Balmy Alley Chicano Park Estrada Courts Galería de la Raza Great Wall of Los Angeles Precita Eyes Self Help Graphics & Art
Law Supreme Court cases Botiller v. Dominguez Hernandez v. Texas San Antonio I.S.D. v. Rodriguez Espinoza v. Farah Manufacturing Co. U.S. v. Brignoni-Ponce Plyler v. Doe Medellín v. Texas Flores-Figueroa v. U.S. Leal Garcia v. Texas Mendez v. Westminster Bernal v. Fainter Perez v. Brownell DHS v. Regents of the Univ. of Cal. Federal Court cases Madrigal v. Quilligan
Population Population by City Arizona (Tucson) California (Los Angeles) Illinois (Chicago) Michigan (Detroit) Nebraska (Omaha) Texas Dallas–Fort Worth Houston Multiethnic Blaxicans Hispanos Californios Nuevomexicanos Tejanos Indigenous Mexican Americans Punjabi Mexican Americans
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A Chicano is a Hispanic/Latin-American who has Native-American ancestry and/or citizenship of the United States and usually Mexico. Often, Chicano and Mexican-American are used to mean the same thing. Chicana is the female version of Chicano. Chicanos often speak in Spanglish.

Notable Chicanos

Chicanos have made contributions to many fields, spanning arts, culture, sports, technology, and politics.

• Gloria E. Anzaldúa, author
• Ana Castillo, author
• Sandra Cisneros, author
• George Lopez, comedian
• Lynda Carter, actress played Wonder Woman
• Rudolfo Anaya, novelist

Chicano Media

• ChicanoPowerCSULA.jpg

  A "Chicano Power!" by M.E.Ch.A. CSULA is held up in a crowd (2006).

• Women's March LA 2019 (46753441972).jpg

  "Chicana by luck, proud by choice" at 2019 Women's March, Los Angeles

• Aztec drums, Florentine Codex..jpg

  Chicano may derive from the Mexica people, originally pronounced Meh-Shee-Ka.

• Chicana Town 1562 Map.jpg

  Closeup of the Gutiérrez 1562 New World map. The town of Chicana is listed in the upper left of the map, which is the earliest recorded usage of Chicana/o.

• A man arrested during the Zoot Suit Riots models a zoot suit and pancake hat in a Los Angeles County jail on June 9, 1943.jpg

  Frank H. Tellez, a Pachuco youth, wears a zoot suit while arrested in the Zoot Suit Riots. Pachucos were the first to reclaim the word Chicano as a form of pride.

• Chicano power flag of aztlan.jpg

  Chicano became widely adopted during the Chicano Movement.

• Ana Castillo by David Shankbone.jpg

  Ana Castillo coined Xicanisma to reflect a shift in consciousness since the Chicano Movement.

• Xicano (5720815588).jpg

  A man with Xicano on his shirt.

• Luis J Rodriguez NBCC Awards (cropped).jpg

  Luis J. Rodriguez refers to Xicanx as important for gender non-conforming Mexican Americans.

• Mexican and negro cotton pickers inside plantation store, Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Miss. Delta. This transient labor is contracted for and brought in trucks from Texas each season. October 1939.jpg

  Mexican and Black cotton pickers inside a plantation store (1939). In the 1930s, the term Mexican American was promoted to attempt to define Mexicans "as a white ethnic group that had little in common with African Americans."

• NVTV - Roberto Tinoco Duran -The Jaguar Poet- (Purépecha-Chícaño).webm

  Roberto Tinoco Durán, a Purépecha-Chícaño poet, interviewed on Native Voice TV (2017).

• Lowrider film Giveitup 51 japan.webm

  Japanese lowrider. Chicano cultural influence is strong in Japan.