Title: A Chicano renaissance? A new Mexican-American generation embraces the term
Headings: A Chicano renaissance? A new Mexican-American generation embraces the term
A Chicano renaissance? A new Mexican-American generation embraces the term
The origins of Chicano
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Content: Today's Chicanos are trying to protect immigrants and Dreamers, the term used to describe immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children. They're just as likely to fight for access to higher education as for better K-12 schools, and they're battling against gentrification in traditionally Mexican-American communities such as Los Angeles's Boyle Heights. Recommended
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And they're much more likely to defend the rights of women and LGBTQ Latinos, almost unheard in the 1960s use of Chicano, not unlike much of the general population. At the eight-acre Chicano Park in San Diego, amid food stands, T-shirt stalls and gleaming low riders, Sarina Sanchez, 29, was volunteering at an information tent for Border Angels, a nonprofit that organizes pro-immigrant demonstrations and leaves bottles of water in the desert for undocumented travelers. Chicano “isn’t just a look,” she said. “ We have to know how to fight back.” One of many t-shirts celebrating the Chicano experience at Chicano Park. Dennis Romero / NBC News
Sanchez majored in Chicano studies at UCLA and said she identifies with the gender- and sexual-orientation neutral term Chicanx. “ The ‘x’ is a reclamation of my indigenous heritage and my feminism,” she said. Peter Ortiz, 28, is a tech industry worker in Silicon Valley who in 2016 founded the San José Brown Berets, which pays homage to the militant group of the 1960s.