Does the Chicano Movement Still Exist?
Does the Chicano Movement Still Exist? My research work aimed to outline the development of historical and cultural construction and, therefore, to understand how the Chicano identity has progressively been defined. Through an initially historical-geographical analysis, I tried to reconstruct the events from which the dense network of relationships that still binds Mexico to the United States of America was formed. In particular, I was interested in understanding how this continues to survive within US society, despite the numerous forces that, over the years, have tried to erase it, mainly through its assimilation into the dominant culture. It is within this framework that this unprecedented cultural construction originated. For the Chicano, it was a matter of giving voice to a multiplicity of political, cultural, historical, and national instances, from which a hybrid and multiple identities were then formed, the result of the encounter-clash with the previous ones. Chicano...