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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"chicanos"”.
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The Vietnam War and its Detrimental Effects on Chicanos
… ladder for Mexican-Americans; and why many Chicanos did indeed see the war as an opportunity for social mobility. In addition, I will discuss how in reality the war did not bring advancement to the Chicano veteran. The idea that the Vietnam War could have been a way for Chicanos to become …
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Chicanos in education : an examination of the 1968 east Los Angeles student walkouts!
<p>In 1968 the Los Angeles community witnessed the up rise of thousands of Chicano students when they walked out of their high school on an early morning in March. The purpose of this study was to further understand the 1968 student walkouts as presented by student participants. The study was …
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Cultural Differences in the Attributions and Intentions of Anglos and Chicanos in an Elementary School
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:46:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317439.pdf: 8513479 bytes, checksum: 9f4ad295668aadb615170f745da43751 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Borderlands Theory: Producing Border Epistemologies with Gloria Anzaldua
… subsequent stigmatization of Mexican-Americans/Chicanos as "foreign others," since they did not share with predominant Anglo-Saxons the same values, culture, religion, traditions and skin color. I argue that the later exploitation, exclusion, marginalization, and racism against …
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Sandra Cisneros as Chicana Storyteller: Fictional Family (Hi)Stories in Caramelo
… a cultural mythology for the Chicano community. Chicanos are alienated by the mainstream cultures on both sides of the border, and thus they generally feel culturally invalidated. By invoking pop cultural forms, primarily the telenovela, Cisneros fosters collectivity among Chicanos who can all …
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Framing Identity: Repudiating the Ideal in Chicana Literature
… to present an idealized representation of Chicanos and encouraged his reader to engage in revolutionary action. Though the poem encourages strong leadership, upward mobility, and political engagement the representations of women in his text are misogynistic and limiting.</p> <p>His …
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Paraíso, caida y regeneración en tres novelas chicanas
… condition of the two societies in which Chicanos live and offers the Chicano perspective of himself and his circumstance. His novel's importance is as great as Rudy Acuña's Occupied America in the area of the history of Chicanos in the Southwest. This dissertation has been written …
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San Antonio CineFestival: A Reclamation of Chicano Cinema
… I question how the Festival shared the work of Chicanos and promoted a Chicano discursive space. To answer these questions I turned to the Festival film programs and local periodicals. After my research, I found that the CineFestival served a purpose for Chicano cinema because it not only …
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Americhicano
… that would capture the shared experiences of Chicanos, Latin Americans and the vast people group we identify as “American.”</p> <p>In the first part of my Statement of Purpose, I go into the politics and social commentary of why I chose this as the focus of my project. “Why I Write” is a …
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AMERICAN INDIAN STUDENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: FACTORS RELATED TO THEIR UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE ENTRANCE.
… were compared with a sample of Mexican American/Chicanos and in selected areas with other white/Caucasians to determine similarities and differences between the three groups. Six research questions were formulated and examined to achieve the purposes of this study. The data were extracted from …