Chicano Movement

Examples of Chicano Movement in the following topics:

• Latino Rights

  • The Chicano Movement was the part of the Mexican Civil Rights Movement that sought political and social empowerment for Mexican Americans.
  • The equivalent of the Black Power movement among Mexican Americans was the Chicano Movement.
  • One of the founding members of the Chicano Movement, Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales, launched the Crusade for Justice in Denver in 1965 to provide jobs, legal services, and healthcare for Mexican Americans.
  • In the late 1960s, when the student movement was globally active, the Chicano movement brought about spontaneous actions such as the mass walkouts by high school students in Denver and East Los Angeles in 1968 and the Chicano Moratorium in Los Angeles in 1970.
  • Some women felt that the Chicano movement was too concerned with social issues that affected the Chicano community as a whole rather than problems that affected Chicana women specifically.

• Conclusion: Change in the 1960s

  • The African American civil rights movement made significant progress in the 1960s.
  • Although the African American civil rights movement was the most prominent of the crusades for racial justice, other ethnic minorities also worked to seize their piece of the American dream during the promising years of the 1960s.
  • The Mexican American civil rights movement, led largely by Cesar Chavez, also made significant progress at this time.
  • The emergence of the Chicano Movement signaled Mexican Americans’ determination to seize their political power, celebrate their cultural heritage, and demand their citizenship rights.
  • Influenced and inspired by the civil rights movement, organizations and student groups formed across the country to protest the Vietnam War, advocate for women's rights, and stand up against discrimination faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.

• Mexican Muralism

  • The movement was strongest from the 1920s to the 1950s, which corresponded to the country's transformation from a mostly rural and mostly illiterate society to an industrialized one.
  • Their work defined the movement, creating a mythology around the Mexican Revolution and the Mexican people, and promoted Marxist ideals, which are still influential to this day.
  • The concept of mural as political message was transplanted to the United States, especially in the former Mexican territory of the Southwest, and served as inspiration to the later Chicano Mural Movement.

• Examples of Social Movements

• Latinos

  • Latino voters are a diverse group which include long-established Tejano and Californio, Puerto Rican and Chicano voters, as well as the Cuban-American community which makes up a large bloc of voters in Miami.

• Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

  • The school had 100 seats available to applicants, 16 of which were specifically for "Blacks," "Asians," "Chicanos," and "American Indians" under an affirmative action program.

• Social Movements

  • These movements do not have to be formally organized to be considered social movements.
  • Sociologists draw distinctions between social movements and social movement organizations (SMOs).
  • A social movement organization is a formally organized component of a social movement.
  • It is interesting to note that social movements can spawn counter movements.
  • Discover the difference between social movements and social movement organizations, as well as the four areas social movements operate within

• Introduction

  • Social movements do not have to be formally organized.
  • A distinction is drawn between social movements and social movement organizations (SMOs).
  • A social movement organization is a formally organized component of a social movement.
  • It is also interesting to note that social movements can spawn counter movements.
  • For instance, the women's movement of the 1960s and 1970s resulted in a number of counter movements that attempted to block the goals of the women's movement, many of which were reform movements within conservative religions.

• Stages in Social Movements

  • Blumer, Mauss, and Tilly, have described different stages social movements often pass through.
  • Movements emerge for a variety of reasons (see the theories below), coalesce, and generally bureaucratize.
  • Whether these paths will result in movement decline or not varies from movement to movement.
  • In fact, one of the difficulties in studying social movements is that movement success is often ill-defined because movement goals can change.
  • This makes the actual stages the movement has passed through difficult to discern.

• Types of Social Movements

  • Aberle described four types of social movements based upon two fundamental questions: (1) who is the movement attempting to change?
  • The diagram below illustrates how a social movement may either be alternative, redemptive, reformative or revolutionary based on who the movement strives to change and how much change the movement desires to bring about .
  • Scope: A movement can be either reform or radical.
  • A reform movement might be a trade union seeking to increase workers' rights while the American Civil Rights movement was a radical movement.
  • Based on who a movement is trying to change and how much change a movement is advocating, Aberle identified four types of social movements: redemptive, reformative, revolutionary and alternative.