Chicano: A Question of Identity between Memory and Social Practice.

    Las Chicanas: Identity and Feminism. The perspective of cultural minorities usually remains on the sidelines of the traditional historical narrative. The Chicano movement has fought this trend by giving a voice to one of the most important communities on US soil. However, the success of this attempt would have been incomplete if it had not been for the tenacity of the women within it, who were determined to undermine the subordination determined by racism and gender roles. In 1848, with the signing of the Guadalupe-Hidalgo Treaty, Mexico ceded a significant portion of its territories to the United States. The treaty was signed during a peace conference between the two countries, ending a bloody territorial conflict almost two years earlier. The United States emerged victorious from the conflict and gained much of Texas - the Rio Grande was chosen as the new natural border with Mexico. However, with Texas, Mexico ceded a large part of its territories. Mexicans residing in...

  Borderlands: Physical and Cultural Frontiers of the Chicano Identity. “The actual physical bordedand that I'm dealing with in this book is the Texas-U.S Southwest/Mexican border. The psychological borderlands, the sexual borderlands and the spiritual borderlands are not particular to the Southwest. In fact, the borderlands are  physically present wherever two or more cultures edge each other, where peopIe of different races occupy the same territory, where under, lower, middle and upper classes touch, where the space between two individuals shrinks with intimacy.” With these words, Gloria Anzaldúa opens the preface to her book Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, a semi-autobiographical text in which the author talks about what it is like to be a Chicano American and grow up on the border between Texas and Mexico, and everything, what this entails as a "middle ground," in-between two languages, two cultures, two peoples. And precisely this plurality of identiti...

    Introduction. The purpose of this phenomenological, ethnographic case study is to reconstruct all those dynamics which, even before the birth and spread of Chicanos in the 1960s, affected the Chicano cultural construction and represented an exact photograph of its evolution up to today. The expression I used previously: the exact photograph, already provides an idea of ​​what prompted me to investigate this issue; the desire to highlight how this story has been characterized by negative stereotypes, mystifications, manipulations, and falsehoods. Moreover, how the construction of identity presents itself to our eyes as a fundamental survival strategy that subjects implement when society - within which individuals, groups, and institutions move - threatens their "specificity" through the cancellation or incorporation of the differences. Therefore, the Chicanos were forced to build an identity within an often hostile environment that bears the particularity of their cond...