The Chicano movement of the 1960’s was a nationalist radical declaration of our Mexican Indigenous heritage and our “Mexicans in occupied Aztlan” identity. It was a way to reject the “Mexican American” label and to protest the disproportionately high casualties of our people in Vietnam.
The Chicano movement brought about changes for our people in civil rights and in the revival of our culture. It meant better jobs and better housing.
The Chicano studies that were established at universities during that period were the inspiration for radical thought in our communities.
Today all of the accomplishments of the Chicano movement have been rejected by the traitors in college and university Chicano Studies who now favor the treasonous Hispanic/Latino label and its colonialist mentality.
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