Summary Of The Making Of A Chicano Militant

The book The Making of a Chicano Militant portrays a synopsis on how the background of the Chicano movement in the 1960’s influenced the U.S in many ways. The Chicano Movement in 1960’s helped brought an enormous changes in social, economic and political change, and told the story of the Cristal City incident which helped brought about social justice and equality for Chicanos and Hispanic ethnicity. Political parties were made like the Raza Unida to combat the problem of inequality in the Hispanic ethnicity in schools, politics and in society. Discrimination and inequality were apparent in the Chicano and Mexican race in 1960’s. The call for chicanismo was needed to prompt immediate affirmative action against this inequality. The concept encouraged

Mestizos, peninsulares and other races of classification system of Hispanics were made that the Anglo man could impact negatively towards segregating and taking equality away from the Hispanic race. The negative impact was segregation which was apparent in the 1960’s for example in schools. The education system affected the Hispanic and Chicano ethnicities due to the lack of equality in resources. The ones making the “As” in class were the Anglos Saxons or gringo kids instead of the Hispanic kids who lacked the resources and education equality to attain the similar level. Lunch was also hindered in school systems the “good” food would go to the whites and the “leftovers or perhaps even nothing” would go to the Hispanic kids attending the school. There is a injustice going between whites and kids in the school regarding

Education system which brought a lot of improvement and advancement in the Chicano and Mexican race completely towards another level of degree. English was the official language of the U.S omitting or putting a negative counter side to the Spanish language, culture and history. Historians argue that the legacy of the Chicano Civil Rights movement. I will be investigating the legacy of the incident. Due to the Cristal City incident. Advancement was obraved in the Chicano and Mexican race was slow but proliferate in today’s modern and race accepting society.

In the 1960’s the Mexican and Chicano race were ridiculed upon in the classroom as well as in the society. And moreover, there was a sense of inequality lurking in the shadow. The Cristal City incident was important to bring out the legacy which is now seen as the Chicano Movement. Spanish language in the classroom was banned because due to its type of linguistic terrorism, and only English was the official language that was accepted in the classroom. Assimilation was the word they used to promote to revolt against the racial and political injustice in the Chicano Movement in the